How many people know what pierogi's are??!
Answers: how many people know what pierogi's are?? Personally it's my favorite food, but I recently moved from NJ to SC and no one here knows what they are. They say they call them "dumplings" but i'm pretty sure it's not the SAME thing. what does everyone think??
Southern "dumplings" are usually just boiled biscuits, so no where close to the yummy Pierogi.
I used to live in NYC and man I miss the Pierogi I used to get there. Here is a recipe that is pretty good and you can adjust it for your own taste:
Dough
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1/2 teaspoon salt
Filling
16 ounces ground beef, browned
16 ounces sauerkraut (drained but not rinsed)
sour cream, plus more for serving
salt & pepper, to taste
butter
DOUGH: In a large bowl, combine all ingredients and mix well; knead dough for 10 minutes.
Dough will be sticky, use extra flour on surface to work the dough.
Roll to a thickness of about 1/16" - about as thick as a dime. Cut out circles in desired size (the diameter of a coffee mug is good).
FILLING: Use equal amounts of browned ground beef and sauerkraut - *aprroximately* 16 oz. each, just needs to be equal. Then use enough sour cream to hold mixture together. Stir in salt and pepper to taste.
ASSEMBLE: Place about 1 Tbsp filling on one side of each circle of dough. Fold dough over filling and pinch or press edges together with tines of fork - Be careful not to puncture dough!
BOIL: In a very large stockpot, bring salted water to a rapid boil. Drop pierogi in - several at a time - and boil until the they float to surface.
Cook time depends on size of pierogi but shouldn't be longer than 12 minutes but as little as 5 minutes.
Continue until all are cooked, then drain and cover with butter. Add more salt & pepper to taste and serve with sour cream, if desired.
Dumplings are just dough. Pierogi's are filled with mashed taters & onions and other veggies. That's the difference!
Uh . . . it's really hard to know how many people know what pierogi's are. Or what everyone thinks. What's your question, anyway?
everyone who ever lived in New Jersey knows what a pierogi is! The church ladies in my old town used to make them for fund raising and my mom would buy a big bag to freeze. It was our "fast food." Check your supermarket frozen food section, I was able to find them in the Northwest - not as good as the church ladies though...
I do, and love them as my favourite food, too. I'm in Saskatchewan, and people call them 'perogies' here as the generic term. I'm Ukrainian, so we call them 'pyrohy' (I know they should be called 'varynyky', but that depends upon what region in Ukraine one came from.).
Here's a site I found from Charleston (don't know if you are close) of a restaurant serving them -
http://charlestonchow.blogspot.com/2007/...
I make perogies for my family myself, but sometimes buy the frozen ones at the grocery store. Some brands aren't that far off from homemade (but some are awful). Check the section of the supermarket freezer near the french fries.
Otherwise, see if there are any Polish or Ukrainian churches in your city. Often, ladies of the church still do catering for events, and often sell frozen homemade perogies.
Good luck on your search! Yum!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierogi
I know what they are and are not simple dumplings
I do I do...I know what they are. I have never called them dumplings, though. I just call them what they are...Pierogi.
Pierogies are yummy, especially with cabbage rolls. Oh, I'm hungry!
Dumplings and pierogies are totally different.
One is a filling wrapped in a pasta dough and cooked like ravioli, and the other like biscuit dough dropped in boiling liquid.
I grew up eating both in my Babcia's kitchen.
My family is Polish so of course I know. ;) I always loved eating the ones with the potato filling and sour cream.
I love pierogies with sour cream. Dumplings (as in chicken n' dumplings) are totally different, it's just bread. No potato involved. I guess you could say a pierogies are a kind of dumpling though.
never heard of them untill now but they sound great.
I wouldn't call it a dumpling... I think they're great.
Pierogi's are noodles pressed together with fillings inside... the Polish version of the Italian ravioli.
I make them a few times a year. They are time consuming but worth the effort if you make enough to freeze. I make them in several flavors.. potato and sour grout, a meat filling, potato and cheese, sweet cheese filling, and fruit filled ones.
But... you can buy them in the freezer section of most super Wal-Marts.
Hope this helps.
They are East European ravioli.
Pierogi's taste as good as dumplings to me, but pierogi's are definitely diffrent than dumplings!
i do =D
i lovee themm