{"id":6122,"date":"2018-11-11T19:30:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?p=6122"},"modified":"2018-11-11T19:30:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T17:30:39","slug":"dumpling-heaven-in-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?p=6122","title":{"rendered":"dumpling heaven in Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Arguably, dumplings are the ultimate comfort food. There is just something screaming home, care and food heaven. Cheap, filling and ubiquitous in Russia, I was happy eating my way through my fair share of dumplings! Here it goes:<\/p>\n

Pelmeni<\/em>: a classic from Siberia, shape similar to a tortellini, served here with a mushroom filling and mushroom sauce at Caf\u00e9 Pushkin<\/strong>. Somewhat of a tourist trap, but still good food.<\/p>\n

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Pelmeni with mushrooms from Pushkin Caf\u00e9<\/p><\/div>\n

Here are more pelmenis<\/em> served at the chain Varenichnaya \u21161<\/span><\/strong>, served with sour cream (smetana<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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Siberian pelmeni and tea – all is good<\/p><\/div>\n

Vareniki<\/em>: similar to pelmeni, but the shape is much more closer to a Chinese jiaozi<\/em> and the filling is more likely to be cabbage or potatoes, also served with smetana and fried onion.<\/p>\n

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Vareniki with potato filling<\/p><\/div>\n

Here is another picture of a mix of different dumplings, smetana (of course) and blini<\/em> (pancakes). The restaurant (Taras Bulba<\/strong>) is Ukrainian but both cuisines are quite similar and both lay claim on many shared dishes.<\/p>\n

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dumplings and pancakes with the ubiquitous Smetana<\/p><\/div>\n

More dumplings – kurze<\/em>: dumplings in a different shape with a braided folding technique, but other than that quite similar to the above mentioned dumplings. Accompanied by pierog<\/em> (a meat pie), a flat pie with vegetables and dill and…sour cream, of course. This meal is from Dagestan<\/strong>, a region close to Georgia.<\/p>\n

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Dagestan dumplings and pies from a stall at VDNKh<\/p><\/div>\n

Yet another style of dumpling – manti<\/em>: filled with savory mutton and onions, seasoned with cumin, dripping with delicious juice, these hail from Uzbekistan<\/strong> and were a definite highlight. The samsa<\/em> (small pastry) – also filled with mutton – was delightful, as was the handmade noodle dish named lagman<\/em> which also featured mutton.<\/p>\n

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mutton Manti at East Quarter in Arbat district<\/p><\/div>\n

Let’s not forget the beautiful Georgian kinkhali<\/em> featured on the header – we tried ones with salmon and mushroom, both such a treat. And don’t they look pretty (and a lot like soup dumplings<\/a> with a really exaggerated stem)?<\/p>\n

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August 17th – 24th, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,7],"tags":[285,328,483,649,670,746,747,812,922,932,945,1016,1275,1281],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1808_moscow_dumpling_00.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}