Grandma Rose's pierogi Recipe
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Ingredients: 5 cups flour
pinch of salt
1 large sour cream (16 oz)
4 egg yolks
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Directions:Mix sour cream and egg yolks into flour. Knead dough until not sticky. Rest in covered bowl 20 minutes. Roll and cut.
*Sauerkraut filling: Wash and cook about 2 lbs sauerkraut for 20 minutes. when cool, squeeze out excess water. Then fry onion in 1 stick margarine. When slightly brown, add 2 TBSP bread crumbs, ½ tsp sugar, salt and pepper.
* Cheese filling: 1 cup cottage cheese, 1 tsp melted butter, 1 egg, 3 TBSP water, ¼ tsp cinnammon. Cream cheese with melted butter. Add other ingredients and mix well. Fill Pierogi
*Meat filling: 1 lb lean groung beef, 2 tsp salt, 1 medium onion (minced), 1 egg. Mix together all ingredients. Shape into small, walnut size balls. Fill pierogi.
When ready: drop pierogi into large kettle of boiling water about 12 at a time. Allow space or floating. Boil vigorously uncovered for 15 minutes until dumplings float and dough is tender. Drain with slotted spoon. Serve with hot butter.
I also like to pan fry them with onion and bacon and serve with the onion and bacon on top. |
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Notes: This is my beloved Grandmother's recipe. She was a strong woman (a breast cancer survivor like me). Every year on Christmas Eve, we would gather at my Polish Grandma's house for Wigelia, the Polish Christmas celebration. Grandma would make 200 pierogi to feed her growing family! When she was 94 years old, she was still making pierogi! In fact, she wound up in the hospital while making the pierogi. I remember visiting her in the ICU, she had an oxygen mask on. The Emergency Room nurse came in and said Rose, you're 94, you need to slow down. You can't carry a pot of water with 5lbs of potatoes in it. My gram, being the strong, stubborn woman she is, reached up and removed the oxygen mask. She shook her head and said no, and it was 3 lbs. I still laugh that it was that important for Grandma to correct her! That was the last batch of pierogi she made as the she died the following October, just weeks away from her 95th birthday!
God Bless my Grandma Rose!
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