Ukrainian Varenyky
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Also known as

Pierogi or Dumpling

Ukrainian Varenyky are in a plate sprinkled with fried onion with butter — *Serving option for boiled homemade Ukrainian Varenyky.*

Varenyky in Ukraine is the popular national dish, served both as a common everyday meal and as a part of some traditional celebrations, such as Christmas Eve Supper.

Typical Ukrainian fillings for varenyky include cottage cheese, potato, boiled beans, mushy peas, cabbage, potato and cheese, meat, fish and buckwheat.

Dessert varenyky fillings include sweet cottage cheese, sour cherry, blueberries, plum, currants, cherries and other fruits.

In Ukraine, varenyky are traditionally topped with sour cream and butter, as well as with fried onions and fried pieces of bacon or pork fat.

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Dough recipe (for 6 persons):

250 ml of freshly boiled water,
1 egg (65 gr),
0.5 teaspoon of salt,
500 grams of wheat flour.

Filling recipe (variant with meat filling):

1 kg of meat,
2.5 liters of water for cooking meat,
Bay leaf and black peppercorns for cooking meat,
300 gr of onions,
100 gr of butter for frying onion,
1 teaspoon of salt (8 gr),
Black pepper and other spices to taste for filling.

Filling recipe (variant with sweet cottage cheese filling):

1 kg of cottage cheese,
150 gr of sugar,
10 gr of vanilla sugar.

For serving can be used sour cream or butter. Video recipe and cooking procedure