Vareniki with liver

6 servings

150 minutes

From the book "Russian cuisine. The best for 500 years."

Energy value per serving

• Calories: 362
• Proteins: 21.4g
• Fats: 11.4g
• Carbohydrates: 43.5g

Ingredients

• Wheat flour: 300 g
• Milk: 100 ml
• Chicken egg: 2 pc
• Beef heart: 100 g
• Beef lung: 200 g
• Beef liver: 100 g
• Dried porcini mushrooms: 50 g
• Onion: 0.5 head
• Garlic: 2 clove
• Butter: 40 g
• Ground black pepper: to taste
• Salt: to taste

Cooking steps

1. Boil beef liver, heart, and lungs separately in salted water with bay leaves until cooked, then pass through a meat grinder.

   Required ingredients:

   • Beef heart: 100 g
   • Beef lung: 200 g
   • Beef liver: 100 g
   • Salt:  to taste

2. Soak the mushrooms and lightly boil them in salted water. Drain the water and chop the mushrooms finely.

   Required ingredients:

   • Dried porcini mushrooms: 50 g
   • Salt:  to taste

3. Finely chop the onion and garlic and sauté in butter (don't skimp on the butter). Add the chopped mushrooms. Continue frying until the liquid evaporates.

   Required ingredients:

   • Onion: 0.5 head
   • Garlic: 2 cloves
   • Butter: 40 g
   • Dried porcini mushrooms: 50 g

4. Add the minced liver, mix it, add black pepper and a bit of broth in which the offal was cooked for juiciness.

   Required ingredients:

   • Beef heart: 100 g
   • Beef lung: 200 g
   • Beef liver: 100 g
   • Ground black pepper:  to taste

5. We make the dough by mixing flour, milk, eggs, and a pinch of salt, roll it out thinly, cut out an 80 mm circle, place the filling (1 tbsp) and fold it into a crescent.

   Required ingredients:

   • Wheat flour: 300 g
   • Milk: 100 ml
   • Chicken egg: 2 pieces
   • Salt:  to taste

6. Boil in salted water. Serve hot dumplings well with sour cream, and eat cooled ones just like that, with green onions.

   Required ingredients:

   • Salt:  to taste