On Mondays we go to the Girls' House to hang out for the day. Sometimes we have leaders meetings, sometimes we go shopping or visiting from there and always we eat some sort of food while we're there. A couple of weeks ago Joan helped make Piroshki - Russian fried dumplings filled, in this case, with potato and onion.
First a large batch of dough was made and left to rise - a simple dough with flour, water and yeast. Two of the girls chopped the onion to be cooked with the potato for the filling.
When the vegetables were cooked, the potato filling was spooned onto the flattened portions of dough and rolled into little logs.
Many hands make light work, as we know.
Joan knows exactly how to put piroshki together now.
When they're filled and rolled they're fried in hot oil.
Far from a health food, but very very delicious. Piroshki would have to be one of my favourite indulgences in Kyrgyzstan.
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