Kreplach
Reprinted with permission from “Jewish Art Calendar”.
Published by A cable to Jewish Life www.cablejew.com
Dough Ingredients:
2 cups flour
½ tsp. salt
3 Tbsps. oil
2 egg yolks
½ cup water
1 ½ tsps. baking powder or baking soda
- Combine flour, salt, and oil.
- In a separate bowl, beat egg yolks, water and baking powder (or soda).
- Add to flour mixture.
- Knead and rollout, thinly, on floured surface.
- Cut into 3 inch squares or circles.
Filling Ingredients:
1 onion, diced
2 Tbsps. oil
1 cup ground cooked meat or chicken
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 egg
1 Tbsp. matzoh meal
- Saute onion in oil. Add chopped meat and brown for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and cool.
- Add salt, pepper, egg and matzoh meal, and mix well.
- Fill center of each square or circle of dough with meat mixture. Fold into triangles, or bring both sides and bottom together towards center, pinching together, and thus forming a triangle.
- Place folded triangles in lightly salted boiling water for approximately 20 minutes until kreplach float to top.
- When ready, remove from pot and serve in soup or as a side dish.
For firmer kreplach, fry in heated oil in skillet over medium flame until golden brown on both sides.