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It takes about an hour and 10-20 minutes to make this complete dish. I got CRAP LOAD of food right now. With these quantities I've ended up with 10 "lazy cows" and along with mashed potatoes and desert I was very full after eating just one of them. I'd say you can feed 4-6 hungry people with this one.

Dough

• 4 cups of flour
• 1.3 cups of water
• 1 egg
• 1 table spoon of butter
• 1 tea spoon of salt

Filling

• About 250-350 grams of ground beef
• 3 onions
• Salt/pepper/spices to taste
• A can of mushrooms
• Half a cup of rice
• Two slices of bread

Side dish (mashed potatoes and gravy)

• Enough potatoes :) I think I had about 6 really big ones.
• Half a large onion (or one smaller one)
• 2 eggs
• 0.5 - 2 cups of milk
• 3 table spoons of butter
• Salt to taste
• Some cooking oil for frying onions
• Can of corn kernels.
• 2 table spoons of flour or 1 table spoon of corn starch for the gravy

Desert

• Half an inch thick slice of pineapple (by slice I mean the round slice with a whole in a middle)
• Quarter of a banana
• Handful of green seedless grapes

Dough

Mix water, salt and butter in a pot and bring to boil and take off the heat. As soon as it stops boiling gradually add half a cup of flour mixing with a mixer to ensure there are no clumps of flour.

Add the egg, mix, and keep adding the rest of the flour while mixing the dough. Thoroughly mix the dough, cover it and let it stand for at least an hour. After half an hour mix it again.

Filling

While our dough is standing there cook the rice to the state where it is almost ready. Fully cooked rice would be "overcooked" in the finished product and won't taste as good.

Soak the bread in milk or water so it would be falling apart. Cut two onions into very small pieces and the third one into larger ones. Mix bread, cooked rice and the rest of "Filling" ingredients and stir it nicely.

Making the "lazy cows"

Roll the dough into about 2" thick sausage and cut it into 1" pieces. Roll those pieces into 2mm round slices of dough. Put the filling in a think layer over half of the dough rolls and cover it with second half of the dough (wrap the filling in the dough). If you don't follow this part, see my "Stripper Chiks In Jail" recipe - it's the exact same idea, except different dough.

Fry the resulting "lazy cows" in cooking oil until they are golden brown. In my photos they are quite dark because I had too much filling and did not want to have anything left over, so I packed the "cows" up and had to fry them a bit longer.

Side Dish

Peel the potatoes and cut them in large, even pieces. Boil them until a fork easily goes into them. Drain the water and add the butter and eggs and a cup of milk. Use a mixer to mash the potatoes up, keep adding milk until the potatoes are quite liquidy but still paste-like. Rember that they will "harden" up a bit once cooled.

Chop the onion into small pieces and fry it in oil until dark-brown. Put the onion along with that oil into the mashed potatoes and stir them.

Gravy

Take that handful of filling that you've saved and simply boil it as long as you can. Mix 2 table spoons of flour (or starch) in a cup of water and add it to the gravy. Bring to boil and it's done. Note: this was the first time I've tried to use corn starch, which is supposedly a replacement of flour for the gravies... well, it sucked and I didn't like my gravy. Next time I'll use flour.

Desert

The desert for this dish is not a cake but a light mix of fruits. Not only it tastes great, but the main idea behind this kind of desert is to kill the "unfillable" thirst that our "lazy cows" would induce (or maybe it's just me :).

Cut the pineapple slice into small pieces, cut the banana into 2-3mm round slices, you could cut those in halves as well. Cut the grapes into halves, length-wise, this would get the juices from them flowing, mixing with other fruits. Mix the pieces and you're done.

Serve all the parts of the meal semi-separately.

I ate only half the food in the photo and was full, despite the fact that I was starving for half a day.

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