Pirukad

Ingredients

Dough

• ½ cup butter
• 1 egg
• 5 tbsp sour cream
• 2½ cups flour

Filling

• 2 cups chopped cooked meat
• 1 onion (chopped)
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 hard-boiled egg
• salt and pepper (to taste)

Directions

1. Mix all dough ingredients well and knead it with hand, then keep it in refrigerator for an hour.
2. Fry chopped onion in butter. Make cubes of egg.
3. Combine fried onion, meat, egg, salt and pepper.
4. Sprinkle flour over counter or pastry board. Roll out dough evenly into a thin layer (rectangle).
5. Along one edge, place teaspoons of filling 4 inches from edge and four inches apart, and fold over the dough to cover the filling.
6. Cut out semi-circles of filled dough with the edge of a cutter, pinch open edges tightly together so the filling not to come out.
7. Brush top and edges of pastries with lightly beaten egg.
8. Bake at 350°F on a greased sheet until light brown.
9. Keep baked pastries in a bowl, covered with a towel, to keep the crusts soft.