Pierogi Ruskie

The Method for Pierogi Ruskie

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1. Mix the flour and salt, pour in the hot water and oil, and stir with a spoon until cool enough to handle.

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2. Knead 8 minutes to a smooth, soft dough. Cover with a bowl and rest 30 minutes.

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3. Fry one chopped onion in 30 g of the butter for 8 minutes, until golden.

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4. Mix the mashed potato, curd cheese, fried onion, filling salt and pepper. Cool completely.

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5. Roll the dough thin, about 2 mm, keeping the rest under the bowl.

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6. Cut 8 cm rounds, put a spoonful of filling on each and fold over.

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7. Press the edges firmly and crimp; they must be fully sealed.

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8. Boil in well-salted water in batches for 3 minutes after they float.

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9. Fry the second onion in the remaining butter until deep golden.

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10. Toss the drained pierogi in the onion butter for 2 minutes and serve with soured cream and chives.

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Things to Watch For

1. Hot water dough. It changes everything.
2. Keep the dough under a bowl at all times.
3. Boil, then fry. Both.

About This Recipe

The dough is made with hot water rather than cold, which gelatinises some of the starch and makes it far more elastic and forgiving — it rolls thin without springing back and it seals without tearing. Keep it under a bowl the whole time you work, because pierogi dough dries in about four minutes and dry edges will not seal at all.

What to Serve It With

Soured cream · Fried onions · Cold vodka

Sides from the same cuisine on this site: Modra Kapusta, Polish Cucumber Salad.

Leftovers

Freeze uncooked on a tray for 3 months and boil from frozen, adding 2 minutes.

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What's in a Serving

Per serving, an approximate calculation from the ingredient list. Treat it as a rough guide: part of the energy comes from foods, or weights per item, with no recorded source; sodium is not given, because the salt for the cooking water is in the ingredient list but most of it is poured away with the water, so no figure from the list would be honest. How the figures are worked out.

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