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Pirukad

Name: Pirukad
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: Estonia
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 6g Dry yeast; 200ml Milk; 50g Butter; 2 Egg; 1 tbsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 250g Mixed ground meat; 1/4 Cabbage; 1 Onion; A pinch Black Pepper

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⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 12

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Small baked buns filled with meat and cabbage, rice and egg, and more — Estonia's savory pastries.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pirukad are small filled buns found at every Estonian bakery and café, with fillings like ground meat and rice, cabbage, egg and green onion, or mushrooms. At home they're baked in big batches for parties, birthdays, and funeral receptions, and they're often eaten with soup.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In an Estonian family kitchen, a tray full of glossy little buns comes out of the oven and is moved into a basket.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 12)

Bread flour 400g
Dry yeast 6g
Milk 200ml
Butter 50g
Egg 2
Sugar 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Mixed ground meat 250g
Cabbage 1/4
Onion 1
Black Pepper A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the bread flour, yeast, sugar, salt, warm milk, butter, and 1 egg and let rise 1 hour.
Fry the ground meat, chopped onion, and shredded cabbage, season with salt and pepper, and cool.
Divide the dough into 12, roll into rounds, wrap the filling, and seal into boat shapes.
Place seam side down on a baking sheet and rest 30 minutes.
Brush with beaten egg and bake at 200°C for 15 minutes.

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