Moldova / Snacks
Plăcintă
A flat pie of stretched dough with cheese, pumpkin or apple, cooked in a dry pan.
Ingredients
- Flour500 g
- Warm water260 ml
- Vegetable oil100 ml
- Brined white cheese400 g
- Egg1
- Dill30 g
- Pumpkin, for the second filling400 g
- Sugar3 tbsp
- Salt1 tsp
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 7 steps
Knead a soft dough from the flour, warm water, a spoon of oil and salt, and work it ten minutes.
Divide it into six balls, oil them generously and leave them under film for forty minutes.
Mash the cheese with the egg and dill. Grate the pumpkin and mix it with sugar for the second filling.
Stretch a ball by hand on an oiled table into a thin round, until it turns translucent.
Put the filling in the middle and fold the edges to the centre, into a parcel or a round.
Flatten it with your palm to a centimetre and a half.
Cook in a hot dry pan four minutes a side, to a mottled crust.
