{"id":18277,"date":"2022-10-17T07:35:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T11:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=18277"},"modified":"2022-10-17T07:35:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T11:35:43","slug":"pelmeni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=18277","title":{"rendered":"Pelmeni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Click on any image to view it in high resolution.)<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_E1512-use-edited-1440.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_E1512-use-edited-1440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1440\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_E1512-use-edited-1440.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_E1512-use-edited-1440-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_E1512-use-edited-1440-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_E1512-use-edited-1440-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_E1512-use-edited-1440-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/a>According to one source, Pelmeni have been described as \u201cthe heart of Russian cuisine\u201d. Unlike Ukrainian varenyky (see my last post), I\u2019ve never found pelmeni (\u043f\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043c\u0435\u043d\u0438) that were made with a sweet filling \u2013 they\u2019re customarily fashioned from a variety of ground meats and occasionally mushrooms \u2013 but like their cousins across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, they\u2019re almost always served with sour cream (\u0441\u043c\u0435\u0442\u0430\u043d\u0430).<\/p>\n<p>These came from Tashkent Market on Brighton Beach Avenue in Brooklyn, one of the highlights on my Little Odessa ethnojunket, and were purchased specifically for my recent &#8220;Everybody Loves Dumplings&#8221; series. I garnished them with fried, thinly sliced onions that had been the topping for some Tashkent salad that I bought during the same visit.<\/p>\n<p>If you know Tashkent Market or if you\u2019ve joined me on one of my <a href=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?page_id=1227\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">food tours<\/a>  to that neighborhood, then you know that perforce I also acquired several additional bags of droolworthy goodies \u2013 not with the intention of posting, but because, um&#8230;&#8230;research! Yeah, that\u2019s the ticket!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The heart of Russian cuisine&#8221; according to some. Read on&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=18277\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-18277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-eats","tag-russian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18277"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18279,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18277\/revisions\/18279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}