Courze - recipe

No, this word is not from the French language, despite the external similarity of sound, this dish is Dagestan pelmeni. Many people have such dishes. From ordinary ravioli Kurzes are distinguished by a special method of modeling and slightly more acute filling. There are a lot of recipes for the course from egg and simple dough with meat, with cottage cheese, with potatoes.

Common test recipe for the course

Ingredients:

• wheat flour - 2,5-3 cups;
• water - 1 glass;
• salt - 0,5 tsp.
• egg chicken - 1 pc. (optional component).

Preparation

Sift the flour into a bowl or on the work surface with a slide. Make a groove, add salt, egg and, gradually pouring water, knead the dough. The dough should be carefully kneaded, it should turn out to be steep enough. The dough is the same as for ordinary dumplings.

If you are preparing traditional courses with meat, it is preferable to make minced meat for stuffing of lamb, beef and / or poultry (the bulk of the population of Dagestan does not eat pork for religious reasons), of course, it is better for Muslims to cook halal products.

Meat recipes

Ingredients:

• not too lean meat (lamb and / or beef, horse meat , poultry) - about 500-600 g;
• onion - 1-3 pcs .;
• pepper black and fragrant ground (it is possible and other dry ground spices);
• salt.

Preparation

Peeled onions, and with it pure meat without bones and cartilage let's pass through a meat grinder with an average nozzle or crushed with the help of a kitchen processor. We will add minced meat and season with spices. Dough rolled into a layer and beat out the circles with a glass. For each circle from the dough, put a spoonful of a portion of the meat filling and tightly tie the edges with a "pigtail". Care should be taken for delicate oblong products. Cook the course in boiling salted water for 6-10 minutes, remove the noise. When boiling the course to avoid sticking, you can add a little vegetable oil (1-2 tsp) in a saucepan with boiling salted water. Serve this dish with sauce. It can be sour-garlic sauce (sour cream + garlic, chopped greens) or Caucasian adzhika (tomatoes + sweet peppers + hot red peppers and garlic), other sauces are possible, this is already a matter of taste.

If you are preparing a course with potatoes, just pie the cooked potatoes (you can season it with a small amount of butter and ground black pepper, and add chopped dill).

If you are preparing a course with cottage cheese, just add cottage cheese, if it is too dry, add a little sour cream, you can also add chopped dill.