Struklji recipe

A stretched dough sheet spread with tarragon-scented curd cheese, rolled up, tied inside a cloth and boiled whole before slicing.

1 hour and 50 minutesmedium10 ingredients

Ingredients

• 500 g curd cheese
• 1 bunch fresh tarragon
• 375 g all-purpose flour
• 2 eggs
• 2 tbsp oil
• 250 ml water
• 200 g sour cream
• 60 g butter
• 60 g breadcrumbs
• 1 tsp salt

How to make Struklji

1. Knead 375 g flour, 1 egg, 2 tbsp oil, 1 tsp salt and 250 ml lukewarm water into a smooth elastic dough; cover and rest 30 minutes.
2. Mix 200 g drained curd cheese with 200 g sour cream, 1 egg and 3 tbsp finely chopped fresh tarragon.
3. Flour a clean cotton cloth, roll the dough out on it, then stretch it by hand until it is almost transparent.
4. Spread the filling over the sheet leaving a 2 cm border, then use the cloth to roll it into one tight log.
5. Roll the log up inside the cloth and tie both ends with string. Do not slice it now: the roll has to cook whole or it falls apart.
6. Lower the bundle into a wide pot of simmering salted water and cook 30 minutes, turning once.
7. Unwrap, let it firm up 10 minutes, then cut 3 cm slices and pour over 60 g butter browned with 60 g breadcrumbs.

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