Varenyky
From ravenseyes 16 years ago
- 15 minutes to make
- Serves 8
Growing up on a farm in Canada, my mother would commonly make these - they are still a favorite.
Ingredients
- 4 cups flour shopping list
- 1 tsp. salt shopping list
- 2 tbsp. corn or other vegetable oil shopping list
- 2 beaten eggs shopping list
- 1 cup water shopping list
- Filling shopping list
- 3 cups cooked mashed potato shopping list
- 3/4 cupfinely chopped onion shopping list
- 2 tbsp. corn or other vegetable oil shopping list
- salt and pepper to taste shopping list
- Sautéed onions, for serving shopping list
- The german traditional way was to use shopping list
- 2 cups cottage cheese fine curd shopping list
- 1 egg shopping list
- 1/4 cup grated onion shopping list
- salt and pepper shopping list
How to make it
- Making the dough
- Combine the flour and salt.
- Mix in the oil, beaten eggs and water and knead the dough until smooth.
- Cover and let the dough rest for at least 15 minutes.
- Making the filling
- Sauté the onion in the oil until translucent.
- Mix into the mashed potato and season with salt and pepper.
- Or
- Blend cottage cheese and eggs, add salt, pepper and grated oinons. Allow to rest in the refridgerator for 20 minutes.
- Making the perogies
- Roll the dough out thinly on a floured work surface.
- Using a round cookie cutter, cut the dough into 4" rounds. Place a spoonful of the filling in the centre of each circle. Moisten the edges of the dough, fold in half to enclose the filling and seal the edges well.
- The varenyky can be frozen at this point in a single layer on a baking sheet. Once frozen, they can be placed into freezer bags.
- To cook, drop into boiling salted water and cook until the dumplings are floating. Serve with sautéed onions. Of course they can be pan fried as well and served with a doulpe of sour cream.
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Reviewed by 4 people-
Wow, didn't know they were called that, though I've been eating something similar for years, except it was always baked and I always had it dolloped with salted sour cream. Never thought of boiling them. These look so yummy and comforting. I can just...more
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in Singapore loved it
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