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Passport & Plate - Rasstegai with mushrooms

Russian Federation | Friday, March 14, 2014 | 5 photos

Ingredients
Dough:
300 gramm flour
250 ml. warm milk
1, 5 teaspoon dry yeast
2 tablespoon sunflowerseed oil
2 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg

Stuffing:
100 gramm mushrooms (honey fungus)
100 gramm cheese
1 onion
1 tablespoon sunflowerseed oil
1 sweet pepper
1 tablespoon smetana (sour cream or mayonnaise sauce)
salt, pepper at option

 

How to prepare this recipe
1. First of all we prepare a predough for the rasstegai. Mix a teaspoon of flour, dry yeast, salt and sugar and pour warm milk in it, mix it up to dissolve dry yeast. Cover the predough with a towel and leave it in a dry warm place for 40 minutes!

2. Now we work with stuffing: ???? ???????? ????? ??????? ??????? ??? ????????: heat sunflowerseed oil and simmered cubed onion in a pan with oil up to gold. Cut mushrooms and add to onion, smother 5 minutes more and add smetana, grated cheese, salt, pepper, cubed sweet pepper. Mix all ingredients and leave to chill. Stuffing for rasstegai is prepared!

3. Stir a lifted predough carefully, add all flour and knead a soft dough. Dust the place for preparing with flour, scale the dough by several small pellets and leave for 10 minutes. We can prepare around 15 rasstegai from this dough.

4. Roll each small pellets in oval form and add tablespoon of a stuffing in a center of oval. Pinch each side of oval leaving the tail end, form nice rasstegai. Whip an egg and cover rasstegai with it to do brown!

5. Grease a cake baking pan with butter or oil and put rasstegai on the baking pan. heat the oven to 250? and bake 15 minutes!

 

The story behind this recipe
It is a family story of 19 century. The father of my grandmother was a very rich landholder in a central Russia. But when his first wife died he was so upset to leave all his property. Because of his debts he was sent to Siberia. Before his leaving his mother prepared food to take on the road. She lived in a small house near forest and always kept natural blessings: the barriers, herbs and mushrooms. She made a dough and baked pies with mushrooms, she made it very small to be convenient keep in the way and added sweet paper to make it “brighter”. When he reached Siberia he always remembered his mother with her pies, which was called “rasstegai” and he married again and built several mills, baked rasstegai to this recipe and said his daughters told this story next generation.