Are we the only ones that eat vareniki like this? Boil them first then like to pan fry them in butter and onions?
by SubjectElderberry376
Are we the only ones that eat vareniki like this? Boil them first then like to pan fry them in butter and onions?
by SubjectElderberry376
33 comments
My Dad’s family Ukranian. I lived in Canada my whole life.
This is a way we have often ate em, though straight up boiled is also routine.
Before they passed we always called the perogie, rather then Varenyky(sp) or pronounced ‘pudda hey’.
Granddad was no fan of Russia, I think he will rest far better if Ukraine is able to eject the aggressor from all their territory.
On weekdays i usually just boil them and eat with ketchup but weekends i also fry them golden brown and serve it with smetana and onions.
Oh i’m a Finn, this is by no means any very common dish, but my ancestry is karelian and Veps and from ancient times from around Dniepr river.
I don’t eat pelmeni/perogies/vareniki with potatoes very often, but when I do, I boil first and fry them up in butter and onions & top with sour cream and black pepper
No, they have to be fried!
I’m doing that way too but not as a part of recipe. I put them on pan to warm up on next day and it is delicious.
It’s the correct way!
This is the only way I make them, but get ready for this……….I dip them in soy sauce after, im Canadian and inuse China Lilly brand.
No, this is common. Also fry up some shkvarky to go with it as well!
I do it here in Brazil too, best food in the world is Ukrainian!
I’d boil mine while the bacon fried then crisp them in some of the resulting fat. potato and onion variety only.
This is the only way. 🙂
Crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside.
I always boil them first then pan fry with onions and serve with sour cream. Yum!
I never cooked anything like this myself but whenever I buy frozen pelmeni or frozen Asian dumplings into the pan they go after boiling/steaming. The pelmeni I eat with dill, butter, yogurt/sour cream and lingon/cranberries or hot sauce. Sometimes adzika if I happen to have found some
My Baba on Dad’s side never fried them. So, neither did my mom, who adopted Ukrainian cooking onto her menu. We fry them in bacon fat and onions. Sour cream on top with salt and pepper. Generally, they are potato and onion but my Baba would dish out saurkraut or cottage cheese and dill.
My aunt in Poland showed me this way of cooking them, never going back to just boiled again 🤤🤤🤤
I make them every couple of months, but I make lots and freeze the rest.
I always fry them to warm up
Had this with sausage just last night! Boil to fry with bacon, and onions is the way to go. I’m Canadian with Scottish ancestry
My husband makes them this way – he was taught by his step dad who was half Ukrainian and half Polish. This has been one of my favorite foods since childhood so my husband’s cooking skills were definitely a pleasant surprise.
My kids love them but me and my wife have to control them calories.
Canadian here. I also fry up some bacon to go along with the rest of that goodness.
My Ukrainian mom does it like this sometimes
Yes dumplings are meant to be fried after, if you are not doing it you are a savage.
Looks like perogies? Any difference?
I don’t get them often but I do love them. I usually bake them but I should pan fry them from time to time.
I’ve been buying and trying more Eastern European cuisine. Some of it recipes, some of it off the cuff.
Smoked brisling sardines on top of moussaka filling ( tomatoes, eggplant, garbanzos, onions, garlic ) on a slice of heavy whole grain bread is incredibly good. Put some grated hard cheese on top.
I’m probably making Georgians/Ukrainians/ etc cry, but I’m a bit of a off the cuff cook…
Also potato dumplings in various sorts, just boiled then tossed with sour cream, butter, salt and pepper, kids ate that up.
Pan fry with butter, I’ll normally blanch the potatoes first so I can cook them with the pirogies and have them done at the same time, Then Sour Cream and pepper. I love em! Fried potatoes with pirogies is the bomb
Ukrainian-Canadian here: That’s how my family has always cooked them. We prefer just a light frying though, don’t want them to be too crunchy that you can’t cut them with just a fork.
I live in Saskatchewan Canada and there’s a large ukrianian population here so these have basically become one of the provincial foods unofficially. I imagine it’s the same in the other prairy provincea here like Alberta and maybe Manitoba. Tried them on the east coast when I was growing up but didn’t like them because of the way they were cooked. I tried them cooked properly in the prairies when I moved and loved them ever since.
They’re very popular in the prairies in Canada too. What are some of the typical fillings ukrianians put in them?
We boil our pierogi first then pan fry them to get the bits of crunch. That’s how my grandmother cooked them, both her and my grandfather immigrated to the US at the end of WW2, their choice after being freed was to go to the US or go back to Ukraine, but Ukrainians who were sent back were disappearing (Stalin would send the POWs to prison for being traitors).
That’s how we ate them. With sour cream.
However, most of the shops/stalls I eat them at are all deepfried (and I dislike those). Boiled then fried gives it that dumpling feel and that crunchy crisp texture too.
Gyoza
Mandu
Jiaozi
Pierogi
Pelmeni
Chinkali
Vareniki
Manti
Momo
Kasnudeln
Maultaschen
Polsterzipf
Ravioli
Tortellini
…
I guess every culture that has them allows to fry them in the pan. An it is regular done, either when you have leftovers or from the beginning. hell even the italians have fried tortellini and ravioli and they usually murder people for the slightest receipe deviation.
I’m from western Canada and this is such comfort food for me.
I’ve seen them like that in Poland. Good method!
Not at all.
I was raised on Polish pierogi made first by my grandmother. This is exactly how she taught us to make them. First boiled, then browned in butter.
Served with cabbage and sausage.