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Kibinai

Name: Kibinai
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Lithuania
Ingredients: 400g All-purpose flour; 150g Butter; 100g Sour cream; 2 Egg; 300g Lamb; 1 Onion; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper

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⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Half-moon pastries filled with lamb and onion — a Karaim dish from Trakai, the castle town.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kibinai are a traditional dish of the Karaim, a Turkic minority living in Lithuania's old capital of Trakai: a filling of lamb and onion is wrapped in pastry and baked into half-moons. Their edges are crimped like rope, and they're hugely popular with tourists visiting Trakai Castle. They're eaten piping hot with soup.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a wooden eatery near lake-ringed Trakai Castle, fresh half-moon pastries are lined up on wooden plates and served with steaming soup.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 400g
Butter 150g
Sour cream 100g
Egg 2
Lamb 300g
Onion 1
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rub the flour and cold butter into crumbs, add the sour cream, 1 egg, and a pinch of salt, bring together, and chill 1 hour.
Finely chop the lamb and mix with chopped onion, salt, pepper, and 2 tbsp water.
Divide the dough into 8, roll into ovals, add filling, and fold into half-moons.
Seal the edges by twisting them with your fingers into a rope pattern.
Brush with beaten egg and bake at 200°C for 30 minutes.

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