Knish
A knish is an eastern-European Jewish or Yiddish snack food. It is a dumpling covered with a dough shell
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European - Jewish - Yiddish - Dumpling - Dough
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that is either baked or fried. In the most traditional version, the dumpling is made entirely of mashed potato. Another version has the dumpling made of a combination of mashed potato and ground beef.
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Mashed potato - Ground beef
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It is similar to the Slavic pierogi, the Spanish and Latin American empanada, and the South Asian samosa.
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Pierogi - Empanada - Samosa
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Unlike normal dumplings, which tend to be round in shape, knishes are flatter. The commercial versions are similar in shape to frozen fried fish fillet patties. The eastern-European versions are hors d'oeuvre sized while the New York City versions are the size of hamburgers.
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Hors d'oeuvre - New York City - Hamburgers
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