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Title: Recipe..Great way to use lesser cut of meat
Post by: coaster500 on March 12, 2012, 01:58:14 pm

I hope this is the right place to post this?

I hunt and the rule is if I kill it I eat it (unless it's pest controll). I thought I'd share a recipe that is very simple and uses up the meat cuts that might not be the best....

Great way to use less than prime cuts of venison and pork......

My wife is from Russia and one of the staples for her family is called Pelmeni. It is something that a family sits down together and makes. It's an assembly line and a great family activity. Pelmeni are the stored and used all winter as a quick meal. My wife is originally from Kemerovo Siberia and the winters there are some of the coldest on the planet. Her family lived on the third floor and would store the frozen Pelmeni on the balcony in the winter and it stayed frozen. It was a fast hot meal on cold, long Siberian nights.

Pelmeni are a dumpling like a pot sticker and very simple delicious fast easy food. They are great hot winter food.

I love this recipe as it uses both elk or deer and wild pork.

To make the Pasta

2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
1 teaspoon salt
3 large eggs
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

Mix this in a large bowl until you came manage it like putty. I have a wood top table that I flour up and use to cut the pasta shapes. I roll it out to the desired thickness. I use a jar top about 1 1/2"s in dia to cut circles from the pasta dough.


I use a meat grinder and grind the elk or deer meat and the pork. I grind in onion and garlic into this mix. I use 1/2 pound of venison and 1/2 pound of pork, 1 medium onion and garlic to taste

Scoop a small amount of the meat into the pasta shell. Fold the edges and pinch closed, grab the pointed ends of the Pelmini and pull them back and pinch together. You end up with a round little meat pie. Then you can freeze them. I put them on a cookie sheet first get them frozen I then put the in zip locks or I vacuum seal them.

When we get home from work and we don't feel like spending a lot of time cooking we just drop a fist full of Pelmeni in some bullion and boil until they float. We them serve them in a bowl with sour cream and chives......Mmmmmmmmm good

Enjoy……………………
        (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/690px-pelmeni.jpg)

Title: Re: Recipe..Great way to use lesser cut of meat
Post by: ErictheViking on March 12, 2012, 02:09:35 pm

MMMMMMMMMMMMMM! meat filled dumplings!!!!

Title: Re: Recipe..Great way to use lesser cut of meat
Post by: bubby on March 12, 2012, 03:46:53 pm

Damn, that look's good, Bub

Title: Re: Recipe..Great way to use lesser cut of meat
Post by: JW_Halverson on March 12, 2012, 03:59:24 pm

Oh good Lord!  I just finished splitting a large pizza with a friend and I'm feeling a little food drunk.....but that picture just brought a flood of drool to my chin! 

Oh sweet pelmeni, come to pappa!

Title: Re: Recipe..Great way to use lesser cut of meat
Post by: bowtarist on March 12, 2012, 04:19:35 pm

AWESOME!!  Thanks for the recipe!!  And the food porn too!! dpgratz

Title: Re: Recipe..Great way to use lesser cut of meat
Post by: Calendargirl on March 12, 2012, 07:16:56 pm

Looks great and I posted it on our Facebook page for those followers to see, too:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Primitive-Archer-Magazine/125816541475?ref=tn_tnmn

Title: Re: Recipe..Great way to use lesser cut of meat
Post by: Rick Wallace on March 12, 2012, 08:52:43 pm

Pasta,,,YUK !!!!!!!!   ::)  I dont et that junk,,,,,,,,,

Title: Re: Recipe..Great way to use lesser cut of meat
Post by: Kpete on March 12, 2012, 09:29:01 pm

Thanks for the recipe and the cultural info.  It helps us to be refined and sophisticated!
It sounds great!

Title: Re: Recipe..Great way to use lesser cut of meat
Post by: coaster500 on March 12, 2012, 09:52:28 pm

Don't know about the refined and cultured stuff Rick in Kemerovo it's considered peasant fair. Pelmeni. is just one of the perks for poor folk.

Title: Re: Recipe..Great way to use lesser cut of meat
Post by: M-P on March 12, 2012, 10:59:57 pm

Coaster,   They look and sound a lot like the piroshki I learned to make, just to curry favor with my mother-in-law.   My mother-in-law grew up in a Ukranian immigrant family.  She said they had "peta hey"  ( a phonectic transcription of her name for them) every sunday after church.  Somehow she avoided ever learning to make them as "Too peasant and too Ukranian".  I settled on a filling of pototos, and cheese,  but your meat filling sounds great.    Ron

Title: Re: Recipe..Great way to use lesser cut of meat
Post by: coaster500 on March 13, 2012, 10:13:22 pm

Ron I think a version of this could be found anywhere. Chinese pot stickers, Italian ravioli, your Ukrainian "peta hey"...  the reason it worked for me when my mother in law made it was the fact that the Russian Pelmini traditionally used three different meats (usually beef, lamb and pork) and since I had elk, deer and pork the lightbulb went off and it works great :)

Title: Re: Recipe..Great way to use lesser cut of meat
Post by: seabass on March 14, 2012, 12:12:09 am

thanks buddy,i love all pasta.this will be a great addition to my cooking arsenal.i see so many options for his.thanks again,Steve

Title: Re: Recipe..Great way to use lesser cut of meat
Post by: Sparrow on March 14, 2012, 01:51:05 am

I will be using this recipe next fall. Thanks !  '  Frank

Title: Re: Recipe..Great way to use lesser cut of meat
Post by: stickbender on March 14, 2012, 03:12:05 am

     Oh, yeah, thanks a bunch! >:(  It's 12:52 am, and now I am hungry again! >:(
That sounds yummy!  I will have to try that this week.  Thanks.  Now what is in the fridge...... hmmm, ham, Swiss cheese, tomatoes, peperoni,......

                                                        Wayne