072. Perepechi with meat, perepechi with cabbage (Udmurt recipe)

Perepechi are an Udmurt national dish, served hot. The fillings are as varied as you like: meat, fried fresh mushrooms, pickled mushrooms, liver, egg with onion, potato, cabbage, there are even perepechi with blood, and of course sweet ones with jam to go with tea. The dish owes its huge popularity to the Buranovskiye Babushki. If you'd like to know how it's cooked in Izhevsk, the capital of Udmurtia — welcome under the cut ;).

This time my mum made them :).

Cooking time ≈ 60 minutes.

Ingredients (dough for twenty perepechi):

• 4 glasses of flour
• 2 eggs
• 2 tbsp melted butter or margarine
• 1 glass of milk or water (I use milk)
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt

For the filling:
As I wrote above, the filling can be anything at all. It's cooked separately, so you're free to choose :). We made three kinds: with meat, with cabbage, and with meat and cabbage.

So, let's begin.

First make an unleavened dough by mixing the flour, eggs, melted butter, milk, sugar and salt. Roll the finished dough into balls.

Flatten the balls into rounds. Then, lifting the edge, hold the dough with one finger from the inside and pinch it with two fingers from the outside, forming a "rim".

Now the filling. Fry the mince with onion.

And stew the cabbage.

When the filling and the dough are ready, make the omelette mixture to pour over the perepechi. Whisk 2/3 of a glass of milk with one egg. Don't forget to salt it.

Put the dough cases onto a greased baking tray.

Fill them and pour the omelette mixture on top.

Bake at 200–220°C for 20–25 minutes. Eat hot (very good with milk!).

Bon appétit!

p.S

Did the dough turn out a bit tough, and did you pour in too little omelette mixture? Put the perepechi in the fridge overnight. They'll soak through and taste even better!
If you'd like recipes for perepechi with other fillings (sweet ones with jam, with mushrooms, with potato and so on) — say so in the comments and I'll tell you ;).

p.p.S

The Buranovskiye Babushki kept their promise to feed the Europeans an Udmurt national dish — perepechi. Right after the press conference the singers invited the journalists to the press café, where they treated the astonished Europeans to perepechi with cabbage, meat and mushrooms and explained in detail how to cook the dish.

The Buranovskiye Babushki performed their song Party for Everybody on the stage of the Baku Crystal Hall, built specially for the contest in the capital of Azerbaijan. In the middle of the stage stood the famous oven in which the singers, over the three minutes of their act, intended to cook the national dish perepechi — something like an Udmurt pizza.