Thursday, March 5, 2009

Pelmeni

Our lunches are often pelmeni or vereniki, little "dumplings" filled with meat or potatoes. Pelmeni is the name for any type of meat "dumpling", so it can be made with a variety of different meats.

We purchase large bags of beef pelmeni, which don't have a cute picture of a cow, but the bags below show the other types of meat-stuffed pelmeni's which we often purchase.


People are usually most interested/intrigued/disgusted by the bag on the right.

2 comments:

  1. So, horse stuffed pelmeni is one of the dumplings? Interesting. Do they breed horses for the meat, or are horses used in a manner similar to what Americans think, then those no longer of value or use are used another way---in this case they become food?

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  2. The horses are definitely bred for meat. They don't retire old riding horses and send them to the meat factory. I think it would probably make for really tough, unflavorful meat if they did.

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