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Pīrāgi

Name: Pīrāgi
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 20
Cuisine: Latvia
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 6g Dry yeast; 200ml Milk; 60g Butter; 2 Egg; 1 tbsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 250g Bacon; 1 Onion; A pinch Black Pepper

Snack

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 20

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Bacon and onion wrapped in dough and baked into crescents — Latvia's celebration buns.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pīrāgi are small buns essential at Latvian celebrations: chopped bacon and onion are wrapped in soft yeast dough and baked into crescents. They're baked in big batches for Christmas, Midsummer, and birthdays, served with borscht or soup or simply nibbled. Every family has a recipe handed down for generations.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Preparing for Midsummer in Latvia, rows of little crescent buns on baking trays come out glossy and golden.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 20)

Bread flour 400g
Dry yeast 6g
Milk 200ml
Butter 60g
Egg 2
Sugar 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Bacon 250g
Onion 1
Black Pepper A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the bread flour, yeast, sugar, salt, warm milk, melted butter, and 1 egg and let rise 1 hour.
Finely chop the bacon and onion and mix with pepper.
Divide the dough into small pieces, roll into rounds, add filling, fold in half, and seal.
Place seam side down, curve into crescents, and rest 30 minutes.
Brush with beaten egg and bake at 200°C for 15 minutes.

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