Pelmeni (small pockets of dough filled with minced meat and served boiled)

Pour out flour on the table. Form it like a volcano with a hole in the middle. Break an egg into this hole and add water and salt. Beat the dough until it become of plasticine consistence, then cover it and wait for 30-40 minutes.
Prepare stuffing: mix minced meat with minced onions, salt and spices.
Cut the dough to pieces and roll each piece so it gets thin. Put the dough on a special form with little holes. Put small pieces of stuffing on the dough above the holes, then make another thin dough and cover stuffing. Press the edges between stuffing with fingers, so that the dough gets cut on the holes edges. Push the pelmeni out of the holes from the other side of the form.
Boil for 5-10 minutes. Serve with black pepper and vinegar.



Ingredients:
3 glasses of flour
1 egg
2/3 glass of water
1-2 onions
1 k of minced meat
Black pepper
25-50 ml of vinegar

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Pasta with cheese and cutlets

Make and fry cutlets: Soak white bread in milk. Use meat grinder to mince potatoes, onions, garlic and soaked bread. Break eggs, add minced meat, salt, spices and mix everything thoroughly. Form the mass into a geometric figures :-) and fry them.

Boil water in the saucepan. Put pasta into the sauce pan and boil it until it is ready (usually about 10 minutes). Pour out hot water and put the saucepan under running cold water. When the pasta cools down, pour out water and put the pasta into frying pan with cutlets. Grate cheese and add some dill or parsley. Fry for 3-5 more minutes.


Ingredients
200 g of white bread
100 g of milk
1 potatoe
1 onion
3-4 cloves of garlic
2 eggs
500 g of minced meat
500 g of pasta
100-200 g of cheese
some dill
some parsley

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Goloubtsy (stuffed cabbage rolls)

Separate cabbage to leaves: cut each leaf near the head of the cabbage, then cut the leaf from the head of the cabbage to the top of the leaf and carefully remove both halves from the cabbage. Boil cabbage leaves for 5-10 minutes.
Boil rice for 5 minutes (it should stay half-boiled). Cut and fry onions ands carrots. Add to rice. Add minced meat. Add salt and spices. Mix everything thoroughly.
Put the stuffing onto the cabbage leaves and roll them up the way you like. Put the cabbage rolls into pressure cooker, put tomato paste or tomato gravy on the top, add water. Cook for an hour.


Ingredients:
1-2 cabbages
500 g of rice
1 k of minced meat
2 onions
3 carrots
250 g of tomato paste or gravy

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Pilau with cabbage

Cut meat and start frying it in the pot. Add salt. In ten minutes cut onions and add them to the meat for frying. Mince carrots and put them into the pot as well. Fry everything for ten more minutes, cut cabbage and add to the pot. In five minutes wash rice, add rice to the pot and add boiling water. Add salt and spices. Stew everything for 10 minutes, then turn off the stove and leave the pot for 10 minutes to stay covered.


Ingredients:
500 g of meat
2 onions
2-3 carrots
500 g of cabbage
300 g of rice

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Buckwheat kasha with cutlets

Soak white bread in milk. Use meat grinder to mince potatoes, onions, garlic and soaked bread. Break eggs, add minced meat, salt, spices and mix everything thoroughly. Form the mass into a geometric figures :-) and fry them.
Boil buckwheat for 15 minutes, then let it stew for 10 minutes. When serving add butter to kasha.


Ingredients:
250-300 g of white bread
200 g of milk
1-2 potatoes
1-2 onions
3-4 cloves of garlic
4 eggs
1k of minced meat
300-500 g of buckwheat
25-50 g of butter

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Pasta a la marine

Fry minced meat. Boil pasta in salt water. Put the pasta under running cold water for 3 minutes and then pour out cold water. Put out the pasta into the pan with fried minced meat, mix and fry everything for 3 minutes.


Ingredients:
300-400 g of pasta
500 g of minced meat

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Pancakes with mashed potatoes and meat

Break 4 eggs to a big bowl and mix them. Pour half a liter of milk and mix it with eggs. Add enough wheat flour to get a liquid of sour cream density. Mix it very thoroughly. Add some pinches of salt and sunflower oil. Mix everything once more and start making pancakes.

The art of pancakes for me is in spreading the batter all over the pan quickly and evenly. Also if you want to have safe and unharmed pancakes you should turn them over by throwing them up and catching them back on the pan. As I had no experience before I could do it right only with 30% of pancakes, others I helped with a shovel.

Ok. Let’s do the stuffing. Boil some potatoes in salt water, pour out water and mash potatoes (I add some milk while mashing). Cut onions to small pieces and fry onions with minced meat. Mix everything.

I fold the stuffing into pancakes the following way: put the stuffing in the center of the pancake and fold it from two sides, then I roll the pancake from one of its other two sides.


Ingredients:
4 eggs
1 liter of milk
200-300 g of weat flour
200 g of sunflower oil
1 kilo of potatoes
2 big onions
500 g of minced meat

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