PIEROGI (PLURAL: PIEROGI)

bearzarre....

SOO the recipe is for like, 25-30 pierogi depending on how big you make them! this is the recipe for pierogi ruskie, aka the fucken simple ass curd n potato one

250g flour
1/2 teaspoon oil
100ml warm water
300g soft-cookin potatoes
130g curd
1 big onion
2 teaspoons butter
salt and any spices u like

-peel and cook potatoes til theyre soft (check by sticking a knife in them and slide out without effort etc etc), meanwhile you make the dough!
-sift your flour, put in the egg, 2 generous pinches of salt(jusst be the saltbae guy), the water nd the oil in. then you need to put that elbow grease to work hoo hoo
- you need to have a surface with enough space and then put flour on it like youre making sticky cookies. you can at first use kneading hooks from a mixer thingie but then you need to knead the dough for like Ten Minutes i always remember starting to whine about how long it took as a kid haha. at the end you can hit the dough with a rolling pin several times im sure it has some kind of functional use like knocking the air out but my mom used to say its for good luck
-when youre about to party (tm) with the dough it should Glisten A Litle and also be smooth. you can do a last check for it being ready by cuttin it in half and checkin if theres like, big air bubbles in it. there shouldnt be, knead a lil more if there are
-then u cover it and let it rest for 30 mins
  -> thats usually filling prep time! yeehaw
-mash thos potatoboys and let em cool a lil
-fry the diced onion in a pan, preferrably with butter (but be careful, Reasonable Heat) until the onion is yellow-brownish and put half thos boys into the potato (you put the other half on the cooked pierogi at the end)
-put the curd into the potatoboys and mix thoroughly (curdled cheese?? do north americans have smth like that i Do Not Know i used google translate for that. they dont have the thing im talkin bout in germany either)
-after mixing, put in spices-- the classic poor polish version is jsust a fucking ton of pepper but thats Boring just put all the spices you want. i put in cinnamon bc im a freak who knows what they want
-AAANd then you can put the filling aside a bit. you cut the dough into thirds that youll work thru one after another. roll the dough out until its 2 mm thick i... dont know what its in inches or whatever but its preeeeetty thin. its like, floppy thin-ness but not Too thin. google says its 0.08 inches
-take any glass and use it as round cookie cutter! yeehaw. it doesnt matter how big the glass is anything goes
-then you have lil circles and if you dusted the surface with flour properly they shouldnt stick to it too badly
-put the filling onto the circles with like, a teaspoon or something. and then comes the Shaping Part
-i dont even know how to explain it the movements are ingrained in my brain?? omg. im googlin for a pic. you fold em like, in half and then press the edges together. sometimes it works better when you put some water on the edges but that might jsut have been my moms oddness again
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxmzy3rsDaA HERE IS A VIDEO um she does the thing at the 4 min mark. just pull the dough over a lil and press down with your fingies to seal it, adjusting the filling as needed (losers actually make a fancy border with a fork by pressin it down all around but it serves no functional purpose it just fancy )
-then salt some water and make it cook in a big-ish pot! you can put like, a towel or paper towels over the pierogi so they dont dry out but tbh theyll be fine if it cooks quickly
- when its cookin, slowly put your new dumpling kids in and turn down the heat a little. they float to the surface when theyre done!(but let em seep a lil for like 2-3 mins before carefully takin em out)
-aaand the remainder of the part is jusrt specifically for the ruskie variant: fry the pierogi together with the onions you left over earlier. you put lots of butter into the pun usually but im not a fan of like, Literal Just Butter Sauce you put on the pierogi so its up to you! fry them to whatever degree you think will be tasty :^> i like em crispy
- AND TA- DAAAH THEYRE DONE normally any pierogi are done from the cooking onwards but some just Taste Better when fried, you know? LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS also i hope you enjoy them lots!! yay!! :^)