Karavai of Blinchiki with Liver
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- glasses milk (for pancakes)
- glasses wheat flour (for pancakes)
- eggs
- funt butter
- lard (shpik)
- calf's liver
- calf's lights (lungs)
- carrot
- parsley root
- onion
- spoons butter (for filling)
- hard-boiled eggs
- nutmeg, allspice, plain pepper
- red sauce (Nos. 406-408)
Instructions
- Bake pancakes per No. 1636, brown both sides.
- Boil half a calf's lights and half a liver with roots, spices and salt; chop very fine.
- Fry chopped onion in 2 spoons butter, add liver and lights, fry, season with salt, allspice, pepper, nutmeg; mix in 4-5 chopped hard-boiled eggs; cool.
- Layer pancakes in a buttered saucepan with the forcemeat between; bake 1 hour.
- Turn out and pour over red sauce (Nos. 406-408). Also served with shchi.