Slow Kitchen Notes

← All recipes · August 9, 2026

Pelmeni, a weekend project

Best made around a table with someone to talk to. Freeze half — future you will be grateful.

Serves
about 100
Time
2 h with help

Ingredients

  • Dough: 500 g flour, 1 egg, 200 ml cold water, 1 tsp salt
  • Filling: 300 g beef and 300 g pork, minced
  • 1 large onion, grated; 50 ml ice water
  • Salt, black pepper, bay leaf for the pot

Method

  1. Knead a firm dough, wrap it and rest 30 minutes.
  2. Mix the mince with onion, ice water, salt and plenty of pepper.
  3. Roll thin, cut small rounds, fill with a teaspoon of meat, fold and pinch the ends together.
  4. Boil in salted water with a bay leaf, 5 minutes after they float.