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Plăcinte cu Brânză

Name: Plăcinte cu Brânză
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Moldova
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 150ml Water; 4 tbsp Sunflower oil; 1/2 tsp Salt; 250g Cottage Cheese; 100g Feta Cheese; 1 Egg; A pinch Dill; To taste Sour cream

Snack

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Fresh cheese wrapped in stretched dough and cooked — Moldova's flat home pies.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Plăcinte are Moldova's most familiar pies: thinly stretched dough is wrapped around brânză (white sheep's cheese), potato, cabbage, pumpkin, or cherries, flattened, and cooked in a frying pan or oven. Every family has grandmother's version, and it's said guests are first offered plăcinte and wine.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Moldovan village kitchen, grandmother cooks round flat pies one after another in a frying pan and stacks them on a plate.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 300g
Water 150ml
Sunflower oil 4 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Cottage Cheese 250g
Feta Cheese 100g
Egg 1
Dill A pinch
Sour cream To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the flour, water, 1 tbsp oil, and salt and rest 30 minutes.
Mix the cottage cheese, crumbled feta, egg, and chopped dill.
Divide the dough into 8, stretch thin, and brush with oil.
Place filling in the center, fold in from all four sides to enclose, and flatten by hand.
Heat oil in a frying pan, cover, cook both sides, and serve with sour cream.

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