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Koldūnai

Name: Koldūnai
Total time: 70 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Lithuania
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 1 Egg; 120ml Water; 300g Mixed ground meat; 1/2 Onion; A pinch Dill; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 30g Butter; To taste Sour cream

Main Dish

⏱ 70 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Small meat dumplings topped with melted butter and sour cream — a Lithuanian home dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Koldūnai are small Lithuanian dumplings of thin dough filled with meat, mushrooms, or cottage cheese. Said to date back to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, they're eaten in soup or boiled and topped with melted butter or sour cream. Families often gather to make big batches and freeze them.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Lithuanian family kitchen, tiny dumplings cover the table as everyone chats and quickly folds more.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

All-purpose flour 300g
Egg 1
Water 120ml
Mixed ground meat 300g
Onion 1/2
Dill A pinch
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Butter 30g
Sour cream To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the flour, egg, water, and a pinch of salt into a dough and rest 30 minutes.
Mix the ground meat with chopped onion, salt, pepper, and 2 tbsp water.
Roll the dough thin, cut 5cm rounds, fold around the filling into half-moons, and pinch the ends together into rings.
Boil in salted water for 5 minutes after they float.
Toss with melted butter and serve with dill and sour cream.

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