Tastier than pies: recipe for Moldovan plăcintă with cheese and herbs without baking

Plăcintă is a special flat pie. It is made from different doughs (yeast, water, and kefir) and with different fillings (cheese, feta cheese, herbs, and even pumpkin). Plăcintă can be baked in the oven or fried in a pan.

Chef Mykola Liulko (mykola_lyulko) shared a recipe for plăcintă with cheese and herbs on his Instagram page.

Ingredients:

Dough:

• flour - 1300 g
• water - 600 g
• salt - 15 g
• vinegar - 20 g
• oil - 30 g
• egg - 2 pcs.

Filling:

• cottage cheese - 900 g
• cheese - 400 g
• egg - 2 pcs.
• dill - 100 g
• green onions - 400 g
• salt - 10 g
• pepper - 4 g
• garlic - 30 g

Method of preparation:

1. To make the dough, mix all the necessary ingredients. The dough should be soft and elastic and should be left in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

2. Meanwhile, prepare the filling. Chop herbs and garlic and grate cheese. Mix all the ingredients.

3. Divide the finished dough into 9 equal parts. Roll out each of them thinly, put the filling and, stretching the sides of the dough, cover the center with it. Roll out the resulting circle into a larger and flatter one.

4. Fry plăcintă in a large amount of oil over medium heat on both sides. Enjoy!

You can also find more recipes on OBOZREVATEL:

• Cottage cheese buns
• Lenten buns
• Plăcintă made from yeast dough