The modern housewife

I promised my sister to put up this recipy of Polish pierogies. It is like big raviolies that are most of the time filled with a potatoe, mushroom or sour crout mix. I am making them with the potatoe mix most of the time so that is the recipy I will give you.
It takes a little bit of time to make them but it is definitly worth it because they are really delicious!
The pierogies are uncooked on the photo.


Photo by Anna Nasstrom, The Modern Housewife.

About 50 pierogies.

Dough :
500 grams of flour
1/2 tea spoon of salt
hot water, add little by little

Mix these ingredients.
Fold over and over until elastic.
Leave for 30 minutes under cover.

Filling :
500 grams of potatoes, cooked and salted
500 grams of white cheese
2-3 onions, cut into very small pieces
salt, pepper

Fry onion in butter until golden.
Press the potatoes until getting mashed potatoes consistency.
Do the same with the white cheese.
Mix everything. Add salt and pepper, the more pepper, the tastier.

Roll out the dough thin and make circles (about 9 centimetres).
Put some filling on one half of the circle and close it so that it looks like on the image. It is very important that there is no filling in between where you close it because then they open when you cook them.

Cook the pierogies in salted water on medium heat. Make sure you stir constantly so that they don't stick together.
When they start floating, leave for 3 more minutes.
Serve them with fried onion and sour cream for example.

You don't need to cook all of them right away, you can freeze them uncooked. Just make sure to separate them so that they don't touch and stick together.