Pierogies Recipe

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Ingredients:

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tbsps. sour cream
  • 1/4 cup lukewarm water
  • filling
  • garlic, minced , to taste
  • 2 tsp pesto
  • parsley , to taste
  • thyme , to taste
  • salt , to taste
  • equipment recommended
  • pierogi maker (i used a round cookie cutter, but next time i think i will invest )
  • pasta machine
  • food sealer

Directions:

  1. Do all the preperation work first.
  2. Cook and mash the potatoes, with no milk added. You can season the potatoes to taste, using the parsley, thyme, salt, and pepper.
  3. Roast and then mince the onions, adding the garlic and the pesto.
  4. Shred up the cabbage and saute in butter.
  5. Set all of these ingredients aside in seperate bowls and begin work on your dough.
  6. Combine the flour, eggs and salt together and then slowly work in the water.
  7. The dough is quite sticky and will not require a lot of kneading, otherwise it becomes overworked.
  8. Place dough under an inverted bowl or under a cloth for 1/2 hour.
  9. Coat your roller and work surface with flour and keep a small bowl of flour beside you as you roll ou the dough. It is quite sticky. I took the intial ball and cut it in half to make two small balls. I then rolled each smaller ball out. The desired consistency is 1/16' thick. A pasta machine was recommended for this, but I don't have one, so I rolled mine by hand.
  10. When the dough is completely rolled out, start spooning your filling ingredients on one of the dough sheets in small flat piles. Take into account your pierogi making tool (I used a cookie cutter) for how much filling and how close you can set each small pile. Potatoes come first, then cabbage, and then onion.
  11. When you are done putting your filling piles on your one sheet of dough, cover it with the other sheet of dough - like you are making a sandwich.
  12. Cut out your pierogies and then seal the edges carefully pinching them shut. You should get around 20 pirogies per sheet. Traditional pierogi are half moon shaped, but we found when using the round cookie cutter, we would loose all of the filling when we tried to cut them in half. You could try doing this by hand, but I think unless you are an experienced pasta maker, it would take forever.
  13. Put the finished pirogies in a floured container until you have reapeated the pierogi making steps and all of your dough and filling is gone. NOTE: We found we had to make three additional batches of dough to match the amount of filling we had.
  14. When you are done, put the pierogi in food sealer bags in small batches, label, and freeze.
  15. Cooking: Pierogies are usually boiled until they float and then sauteed in butter, onions, minced garlic, and mushrooms. Dried Shitake mushrooms, rehydrated, and sauteed in the pan with the some of water used to rehydrate works wonderfully in this presentation. You can deep fry them, or just saute them period. The dough is tender and will tear easily, so a small amount of handling is all that is necessary.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 649.85 Kcal (2721 kJ)
Calories from fat 118.75 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 13.19g 20%
Cholesterol 56.17mg 19%
Sodium 1567.64mg 65%
Potassium 1307.94mg 28%
Total Carbs 118.79g 40%
Sugars 27.55g 110%
Dietary Fiber 13.85g 55%
Protein 14.99g 30%
Vitamin C 54.4mg 91%
Vitamin A 2.7mg 90%
Iron 9.4mg 52%
Calcium 298.7mg 30%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 136.38 Kcal (571 kJ)
Calories from fat 24.92 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 2.77g 20%
Cholesterol 11.79mg 19%
Sodium 328.98mg 65%
Potassium 274.48mg 28%
Total Carbs 24.93g 40%
Sugars 5.78g 110%
Dietary Fiber 2.91g 55%
Protein 3.15g 30%
Vitamin C 11.4mg 91%
Vitamin A 0.6mg 90%
Iron 2mg 52%
Calcium 62.7mg 30%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 13.3
    Points
  • 17
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • low fat,
  • saturated fat free,
  • low cholesterol,
  • good source of fiber

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium

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