Russian Pancakes "Oladushki"

This month Irina from Russia thought us how to prepare Oladushki, a popular dish in Russia either as a meal or just as snack.

Ingredients:

3 eggs 

2-4 table spoon sugar

pinch of salt

1 tea spoon baking powder

400 g cottage cheese

2 table spoon semolina flour

2/3 cup flour

In a large bowl, mix eggs, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add semolina, cottage cheese and flour. Mix very well. Then please wait (about 10-15 minutes) until semolina gets swelled.

In a frying pan, preheat the vegetable oil on high to medium flame. Using a tablespoon, scoop the oladushki  mixture and carefully tip it into the frying pan. Cook for 2-3 minutes on each side, or until nicely browned. Frying pan should be covered. Adjust the heat to medium-low if they brown too soon.

Remove and place on a plate layered with paper towel to get rid of any excess oil.

Serve warm or at room temperature, top with sour cream or honey, jam.

Bon appétit!

Mixing eggs, sugar, baking powder, salt and semolina flour

Adding cottage cheese

frying them

Ready to eat!

Russian Cabbage and Mushroom Pie

As an extra, Marina made a delicious vegetarian pie with cabbage and mushrooms.

Ingredients for the dough:
1 egg
1 table spoon sugar
1 tea spoon salt
1 cup kefir or buttermilk
1 cup all-purpose flour
Baking powder a little
150gr (about 1/2 lb) butter

For the pie filling we have chosen to use Cabbage, Mushroom and onions. Before preparing the dough fry the fillings until soft and set aside.

To make the dough, break the egg in a bowl. Add the sugar and salt. Mix them very well. Add one cup of kefir and mix all the ingredients together again. Add the flour and baking powder and mix all the ingredients together. At this point add the melted warm butter to the mixture. Make sure the butter it not hot otherwise it will cooks the dough. Mix it well. The dough should become fluffy and airy.

Now that the dough is ready, put half of the dough in the baking dish, add the filling and then put the rest of of the dough.

bake the pie in the oven first for 30 minutes at 375F then for 10-15 minutes at 350F until it's golden outside and cooked through.
Enjoy it!

Adding Kefir to dough mixture

Pouring half of the dough into the baking dish

add the filing

Adding the second layer of dough

And the second layer of filling

Just our of the oven