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Kalduny

Name: Kalduny
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Belarus
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 1 Egg; 120ml Water; 300g Mixed ground meat; 1 Onion; 60g Bacon; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; To taste Sour cream; A pinch Dill

Main Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Meat-filled dumplings boiled and topped with bacon and sour cream — a Belarusian home dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kalduny are half-moon dumplings eaten in Belarus and Lithuania: ground pork or beef with onion is wrapped in wheat dough and boiled. Some versions use potato dough or fill them with mushrooms or cottage cheese. They're eaten topped with fried bacon, onion, and sour cream.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Belarusian kitchen, fresh half-moon dumplings are heaped on a plate and topped with crisp bacon and sour cream.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

All-purpose flour 300g
Egg 1
Water 120ml
Mixed ground meat 300g
Onion 1
Bacon 60g
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Sour cream To taste
Dill A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the flour, egg, water, and a pinch of salt and rest 30 minutes.
Mix the ground meat, half the grated onion, salt, pepper, and 2 tbsp water.
Roll the dough thin, cut into rounds, wrap the filling, and seal into half-moons.
Boil in salted water for 5 minutes after they float.
Fry bacon strips with the remaining onion, spoon over, and serve with sour cream and dill.

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