Cepelinai (Meat Cooked Inside a Ball of Potato Dough, Served With a Special Sauce)

Ingredients

• •1 kilogram uncooked potatoes
• •3 or 4 boiled potatoes
• •Ground beef
• •Milk curd or
• •Mushrooms

Directions

1. 1Peel and grate the raw potatoes, then squeeze out the excess liquid from them through a cheesecloth. Let the starch settle to the bottom of the liquid, then pour the liquid off and add the starch back to the potatoes.
2. 2Peel and mash the boiled potatoes, then add them to the grated ones. Add a dash of salt and knead the mass well. Then take approximately egg-sized pieces of this mixture and form into patties.
3. 3Place spoonfuls of the previously prepared filling into the center of the patties.
4. 4Most often such a filling is made from ground beef, milk curd or mushrooms with salt and spices.
5. 5Close the patties around the filling and form them into oval shapes.
6. 6Then place the cepelinai in salted boiling water and cook for approximately 30 minutes.
7. 7Cepelinai are eaten with bacon or melted sour cream and butter sauce.