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Salt beef kreplach

I’ve used leftover salt beef (see here) to make these and although it’s not traditional, I prefer them to the classic beef ones.

MAKES 48 DUMPLINGS

Preparation time 10 minutes, plus 20 minutes resting

Cooking time 4 minutes

300g 00 grade pasta flour

3 medium free-range eggs

1 tbsp beef dripping or chicken schmaltz

500g leftover salt beef (you can use raw minced beef chuck and a little beef fat)

1 onion cooked in the chicken soup, or 1 onion cooked slowly for 15 minutes in oil or beef dripping, mixed with the salt beef

You need either a table-top mixer with a dough hook or a food processor. Blitz together the flour, eggs and fat. The dough should come together and look like lots of small pebbles of pastry. Turn it out of the bowl and knead for about 2–3 minutes until it is firm and shiny. Cover and leave to rest in the fridge for 20 minutes.

Cut the dough into 4, take one quarter and cover the rest with a warm damp towel. Roll out the first quarter. You shouldn’t need much (or any) flour and sometimes it’s better to roll with semolina to prevent the kreplach becoming sticky when you poach them. Use a 9cm cutter to cut rounds of dough as if you were making ravioli. Place a large teaspoon of the salt beef and onion filling into the centre of each disc of dough. Brush the edges with water or egg and fold the outside rim to close like half moons. Place the made dumplings onto a tray lined with greasproof paper and scattered with a little semolina flour if possible. Continue with the rest of the dough.

Cook this like fresh pasta: bring a large saucepan of salted water to the boil and cook the kreplach for 4 minutes. Drain and add to the soup.