(sorry - i typed it out quick, kinda ghetto style - of you have questions, ask me!)
2.5 - 3 cups of flour
1 tsp salt
1 egg
2 tbs sour cream
1/2 cup water
mix ingredients together - dough will not be too smooth, that's OK. form into a ball and let stand covered about 30 minutes.
using generous amts of flour so it does not stick, roll out portions of the dough quite thin - like less than 1/8 inch.
use a large (4 inch?) round cutter or large drinking glass - whatever you have - cut dough into rounds.
place a generous spoonful of filling in the center and crimp edges so it is kinda half moon shaped.
cook in a big pot of salted boiling water for about 10-12 minutes, stirring after 5 minutes. dont crowd them too much... after rinse quickly with cool water.
you can eat them like that with a little melted butter brushed on top.
or you can kick it up a notch and fry the boiled pierogies in a generous amount of butter until both sides are brown.
best served with a generous amount of sauteed caramelised onions on top and a dollop of sour cream on the side.
FILLINGS:
potato - i took about 4 medium sized floury potatoes and boiled till cooked. i mashed them dry. added generous amt of salt and pepper and a heaping cup of grated sharp cheddar cheese. there should be a generous am of cheese. do not add butter or milk - that will make the filling too liquid and will make the pierogis break open while boiling. at the end i add just a tablespoon of sour cream - not a lot at all.
white cabbage - take a half a small head of white cabbage and cut super fine. (maybe 3-4 cups worth?) then i sliced super fine a yellow onion to about 1/3 the quantity of the cabbage. melt a few (or more) tbs of butter in a big sautee pan, add cabbage onions generous amts of salt and pepper and a heaping tsp of sugar. sautee over med to low heat till real brown and caramelised (30 min or more)
let all fillings cool to room temp before filling pierogies.
i freeze them before they have been boiled. though i imagine you can freeze them after boiling too. hhmmmm...
be sure to layer between waxed paper so they dont stick
yes, you can freeze after boiling. We actually boil them and then put them in the onion and butter mix and then into a pan. WE layer with the paper and freeze. It works great.
Yum!!! I love peirogies!!! One of the few Polish foods I can stomach. (there is some nasty stuff, I tell ya)
Do you use the potato water in the dough? My grandmother swore it was the only way to do it. But then Bill's grandmother made them totally differently, so who knows. They were both Polish and their recipes were handed down, but I think they were from different regions in Poland. Bill's grandmother's were sweet, he said. I have never tried them because she passed years ago and his mom doesn't make them, nor does his aunt.
I'll have to dig out my grandmother's recipe too-I have actually never made these myself-but I adore them!!!!
Yum!!! I love peirogies!!! One of the few Polish foods I can stomach. (there is some nasty stuff, I tell ya)
Do you use the potato water in the dough? My grandmother swore it was the only way to do it. But then Bill's grandmother made them totally differently, so who knows. They were both Polish and their recipes were handed down, but I think they were from different regions in Poland. Bill's grandmother's were sweet, he said. I have never tried them because she passed years ago and his mom doesn't make them, nor does his aunt.
I'll have to dig out my grandmother's recipe too-I have actually never made these myself-but I adore them!!!!
many of the polish make them with goat cheese and that is why it is sweet.
I come from a long line of Polish and also know many and everyone seems to make them a tiny bit different.
We never used the potato water in anything. The only water that is needed was for the dough, so not sure really how that would make it.
Yum!!! I love peirogies!!! One of the few Polish foods I can stomach. (there is some nasty stuff, I tell ya)
Do you use the potato water in the dough? My grandmother swore it was the only way to do it. But then Bill's grandmother made them totally differently, so who knows. They were both Polish and their recipes were handed down, but I think they were from different regions in Poland. Bill's grandmother's were sweet, he said. I have never tried them because she passed years ago and his mom doesn't make them, nor does his aunt.
I'll have to dig out my grandmother's recipe too-I have actually never made these myself-but I adore them!!!!
many of the polish make them with goat cheese and that is why it is sweet.
I come from a long line of Polish and also know many and everyone seems to make them a tiny bit different.
We never used the potato water in anything. The only water that is needed was for the dough, so not sure really how that would make it.
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Well, just that when boiling the potatoes, she would save the water from that and use it in the dough because she said the starch in the potatoes made the dough better. IDK-that generation was very true to their recipes, kwim? IHNI where they came from, but I remember when my mom, dad and aunt took my grandmother to Poland, he said they visited the region where they were from, then said they went to another region where everyone was supa tall and looked related to Bill's family, lmao, so they figured that was where his family must have come from. They also said I would have lost a lot of weight had I gone with them because I would have found the food to be disgusting, lol
IDT Bill's grandmother used goat cheese. But I am not sure-I'll ask his dad or his aunt. He just remembers they were sweet and one of his fave things. I should try and get the recipe for them!
I DON'T think I will try and get the recipe for the blood sausage though-blech. Bill didn't even like it, and he liked everything. I think because he helped make it and that just grossed him out. But then he has helped make scrapple before too, and he still eats that...so who knows!
just cause its interesting, when i was in krakow, poland a bit over a year ago i ate pierogi's every.freakin.day.
they make primarily them with potato, cabbage and mushroom or meat (ground beef it seemed) fillings. they are boiled, but they are not pan fried after - they put the boiled pierogies in a bowl, then they fry the white part of bacon that is cut into cubes - i am not sure what its called in english, but it is only the white fat and it crisps up real nicely - they pour the grease and crunch pig fat pieces over the boiled pierogies and serve them just like that.
they also make a sweet one which i nearly puked when eating- the pierogies themselves are filled with a ricotta cheese type mixture - that in itself is not really sweet. they boil them, and put them in a bowl and strangely quite a bit of the cooking water ends up in the bowl as well. they then take whipped cream (like the reddi whip stuff in the can) and spray it all over the top. totally absolutely disgusting.
also, strangely enough, with their meals they drink strawberry water - they take a strawberry syrup that is diluted with water. then they take which is either canned or frozen strawberries and put some of that in the drink - so there are these disgusting unfresh strawberries floating in dilute strawberry syrup water.
just cause its interesting, when i was in krakow, poland a bit over a year ago i ate pierogi's every.freakin.day.
they make primarily them with potato, cabbage and mushroom or meat (ground beef it seemed) fillings. they are boiled, but they are not pan fried after - they put the boiled pierogies in a bowl, then they fry the white part of bacon that is cut into cubes - i am not sure what its called in english, but it is only the white fat and it crisps up real nicely - they pour the grease and crunch pig fat pieces over the boiled pierogies and serve them just like that.
they also make a sweet one which i nearly puked when eating- the pierogies themselves are filled with a ricotta cheese type mixture - that in itself is not really sweet. they boil them, and put them in a bowl and strangely quite a bit of the cooking water ends up in the bowl as well. they then take whipped cream (like the reddi whip stuff in the can) and spray it all over the top. totally absolutely disgusting.
also, strangely enough, with their meals they drink strawberry water - they take a strawberry syrup that is diluted with water. then they take which is either canned or frozen strawberries and put some of that in the drink - so there are these disgusting unfresh strawberries floating in dilute strawberry syrup water.
really, yuck. I like my american/polish ones then,lol. That sounds all gross.
