Fleischkuechle

[lydamorehouse]

Shawn's family has an ethnic food, fleischkuechle, which I have learned to make from her mother's recipe. Every so often, we get together with her brothers and our nephew and we do this kind of assembly-line massive production of fleischkuechle. Other times, when we run out of our freezer supply, we bust out and make a "small" batch on our own.

Here's what a small batch's production looks like:

Pre-production stage.
Shawn makes the insides which are basically hamburger, onions and some spices. I make the dough. She puts them together in these half-moon shapes:



Second stage: The deep fat fryer.
This is the part that actually takes the longest. They need a lot of frying to make sure that the meat inside is thoroughly cooked, and at most I can only get four in our little home fryer.



Final stage. Ready to eat.
The best part of these beauties is that sometimes when you bite into them a huge drool of grease comes dribbling down your chin, super-hot, but super-tasty. We have been known to try to suck all the grease out.



I'm now actually very tired. Today was a lot of rolling and frying. Shawn and I had a lovely time chatting and hanging out, though now I can barely string three words together.

Comments

[mle292.livejournal.com]

Those look delicious!

I have more room deep frying in a big cast iron dutch oven on the stove, but it takes a lot more oil, so I suppose it's a trade off.

[lydamorehouse]

When we do this full-on production-style we do the cooking outside and Shawn's brother McGyvers together a huge kettle and propane gas (I usually try to stay well away, though there have been no explosions yet.)

Plus, when the whole family is involved it takes a lot less time because someone can be frying while dough and meat are still being prepared and rolled out and stuffed and all that.

[empty-mirrors.livejournal.com]

Deep fried Cornish pasties *boggles* And then they say the Scots deep fry everything. *g* They do look mega tasty though.

[lydamorehouse]

Ha. I have to laugh, having had pasties both here in the US (our local Finnish population has an adeptation they learned while mining in the Iron Range side-by-side with Cornish immigrants) and in the UK, these are much less healthy! Not only are they deep-fried, but also contain exactly ZERO veggies, which both the Finnish and Cornish versions had at least with some potatoes...

Sad, no?

But, yeah, tasty as all get out.

*edited for clumsy fingers (it's early.)

[offcntr.livejournal.com]

So I Googled "fleischkuechle," since you weren't considerate enough to include the recipe (I jokes) and found a link to Health Magazine's Fifty Fattiest Foods article. They were North Dakota's entry.

Now I really want the recipe...

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We asked which U.S. city should host the 2024 Games. You picked…
We asked which U.S. city should host the 2024 Games. You picked
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