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Traditional Ukrainian krucheniki with porcini mushrooms will decorate any holiday table
Prepare for the New Year or Christmas a traditional dish of Ukrainian cuisine – kruchenyky. The meat according to this recipe turns out to be very tender, and porcini mushrooms give the dish a delicious aroma. The website “Everything about Stravi” shared the recipe for delicious krucheniki.
Recipe
Ingredients
- meat (pork ball) – 300 g;
- eggs – 2 pcs.;
- dried porcini mushrooms – 50 g;
- onion – 1 pc.;
- wheat flour – 1 tbsp. l.;
- cream or sour cream – 1 tbsp;
- garlic – 1 clove;
- salt, ground black pepper – to taste;
- favorite spices – optional;
- vegetable oil for frying – 2 tbsp;
- greens – a few sprigs of parsley and/or dill.
Preparation
- Prepare the meat. Cut the cue ball into plates approximately 1 cm thick. Beat them thinly on the board with a kitchen hammer. Place in a bowl, season with salt, pepper and your favorite spices. Instead of salt, you can use soy sauce – this will make the meat even more tender. Cover the bowl with a lid and leave to marinate for a couple of hours.
- Rinse dried porcini mushrooms and soak in cold water for at least an hour. When the mushrooms are soaked, put them on the fire in the same water and cook until soft. turn off the heat and let the mushrooms cool.
- Take about a third of the mushrooms and chop finely. Break the eggs into a bowl, add salt, and beat with a whisk. Add mushrooms and finely chopped herbs to the eggs.
- Prepare an omelet. Heat a frying pan with a small amount of vegetable oil. Pour the egg mixture into the pan and fry on both sides. Cut into pieces the size of half the chopped layers of meat.
- Roll up the twisters. Place a piece of omelette on the edge of the beaten layer of meat and roll it tightly. Wrap each roll in foil like candy, pressing well at the ends so that the rolls are beautifully shaped.
- Heat a frying pan greased with vegetable oil and fry the rolls in foil for a few minutes on each side so that the meat “seizes” and holds its shape.
- Place the rolls in a bowl, let cool and unwrap. Do not pour out the juice that has formed, it will go into the gravy.
- Prepare the gravy. Cut the onions and mushrooms into small cubes. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil, place the onion in it, fry until transparent. Add mushrooms, simmer for another five minutes. Dissolve a spoonful of flour in half a glass of cooled mushroom broth so that there are no lumps. Add to the pan, stir well.
- Add another 1.5 cups of mushroom broth and meat juice. Continue cooking until the gravy begins to thicken. Add finely chopped garlic, salt and pepper to taste. Reduce heat to low, add cream, stir and cook for another 5 minutes.
- Prepare a baking dish. Grease its bottom and sides with vegetable oil. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Place the tortillas in a mold and fill with gravy. Cover the pan with foil and bake the tortillas in the oven for 20 minutes.
Serve the finished dish hot.
