Ever tried vegan Pelmeni?
No? Then keep on reading 😋
As some of you may know, I am originally from the big cold country in the North, yes Russia! Therefore I grew up with some traditional Russian food. One of it are Pelmeni!!! I absolutely love these small dumplings usually filled with minced meat. But this was the main problem: meat. I try to eat as less meat as possible. Anyone who wants to know why I had to stop eating so much meat can read this post from me. Anyway, I tried out some vegan alternative today for the first time!
My grandmother would be disappointed if she could see them know 😅. But they tasted really well! Of course not so good as the original from my grandmother but it was close!
Let's get started. The used ingredients:
For the dough:
- 200 g wheat flour
- 100 ml water
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 100 g soy mince
- 1-2 onions
- pepper
- salt
- soy sauce
- paprika powder
- 30 ml soy milk
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- 40 ml oil (canola, sunflower)
- mustard (without sugar)
- 1 clove of garlic
- salt
- parsley
We will start with preparing the dough. Just take all the ingredients and mix them together until you get a smooth texture. Let the dough chill for 30 minutes under a kitchen towl.
While the dough is resting we can continue with preparing the filling. Therefore take the soy mince and prepare it as said on the package. I had to let it soak in boiled water for around 10 minutes. Cut the onions in small pieces and roast them gently. Add the soy mince when it's ready. Season everything with salt, soy sauce, pepper and paprika powder. Taste a bit, because soy mince need a lot of seasoning!
Meanwhile the dough should be ready. Cut it in half and roll it out on a floured surface. The dough has to be thin. Now take a shot glass, best would be a diameter of 4 cm. But for the first time making a bigger diameter will be easier. Cut out circles out of the dough. Take the remaining dough and roll it out again and cut out circles. Repeat this until there is no dough left. Do the same with the second half.
Now we are getting to the interesting part: filling out the dough circles! This will be a bit hard but you will manage it 😉!
Take the dough circle and put in the center of it a bit of the soy filling. Now wrap it up by sticking together the ends of the dough. You will get something like a semicircle. Take the ends of it and stick them together around your finger.
Hahaha this is my first one after many years... It looks grumpy but it's ok^^
I have also prepared a video how to make the last part with the sticking together:
If you are ready your Pelmeni may look something like mine (but these do not look great ... I apologize for that^^):
And look at this tiny little one!!! I hadn't enough dough left for the last one 😆
And now the mayo! Here you first mix the soy milk with the vinegar and leave it for about 10 minutes. Afterwards you can add slowly the oil while mixing. Then add the mustard, the garlic, parsley and salt and mix it again. And you are done! You should get something looking like this:
The only thing left is to cook your Pelmeni 😋. Cook them in a big pot. You will know that they are ready when they start to swim on the top! Shouldn't take long, a maximum of 10 minutes.
приятного аппетита
- When you are sticking them together make it really properly. Otherwise the filling can come out while cooking!
- Take your time! The first always don't come out as they should! I prepared this meal about 2 hours maybe even more...
The only thing left is to wish you a Bon Appétit!!! And...
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Making me hungry with your delcious recipe and photos! They look like pieroghi crossed with pot stickers
Thank you very much :D Yeah you're right never thought about pot stickers ^^
And just like that I'm hungry now!
hahaha now you've mentioned it... me too!!!!
Thank you for the info, I thought they are called pierogi in russia too :)
Pirogi will be a bit different^^ Some of them contain also minced meat others potatoes. Everyone is making them different^^And they are bigger then Pilmeni and fried ;)
Thank you for the nice comment :D
Not necessarily, there are smaller ones too that look similar to your pelmeni called uszka:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uszka
But i know the pilmeni, they are called Russian pierogi in Poland, there are ones with cheese and mushrooms too. But then again I’m no native so maybe there are known as pilmeni too.
You are welcome and thanks for clarifying.
Ok this is really interesting because I never heard of them before. Maybe in some different parts of Russia they call them like that but yes they look really similar to the Pelmeni.
No not in Russia, they are called like that in Poland.
Ah ok now I get it :D Something new learned thanks!!!
@kusatsuri This recipe seems awesome. I would like to give it a try soon (Never taste any Russian's foods before)
Thank you a lot :D Yeah try it out some time but make sure you have a lot of free time on that day ^^
Mr. You have presented your work in a very nice way. Thank you very much for your work. I am very respectful of your work.
Thank you a lot!!!
This looks really good! It’s great you made an alternative for vegatarians as well, thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much :D