Varenyky

Food trip is in Ukraine. Today we are making Varenyky.

Varenyky is a popular dish made of boiled dough with difference fillings, such as meat, mushrooms, vegetables, fruits, cheese etc. 
Varaniki or vareniki were made with usual for Ukrainians cottage cheese, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, boiled beans, mushy peas, fruits and even flour. Flour fillings were especially popular in Poltava. The dough for varenyky was made of fermented milk products with buckwheat, rye or wheat flour.

Recipe I got from here:
http://proudofukraine.com/ukrainian-varenyky-history-recipe-interesting-facts/

Dough ingredients:
1 egg
400 g flour
250 ml water
salt

Put half of flour into the deep bowl. Add salt. Warm up water till 30-35 degrees and add it to the bowl. Beat up one egg.  Mix all ingredients thoroughly.

Add the second part of flour and place the mixture on surface covered with flour. Knead the dough with your hands. If it is sticking add some flour.

Continue kneading the dough until it becomes elastic (it takes about 10 minutes). Cover kneaded vareniki dough with a bowl or damp cloth and leave it for the “rest” for 40 minutes.

When the dough is ready, roll it out and using the special round shape (diameter 7 cm) or a cup cut out circles. Then place the filling in the center of each circle and tight up the edges. Put vareniki to the boiling water and boil for several minutes. 

Meat filling ingredients:

500 g chicken fillet
100 g sour cream 
1 onion, chopped
1 tbsp vegetable oil
100 g mayonese
chopped parsley
salt, pepper

Boil chicken fillet. Chop boiled meat with a knife or using meat grinder and add salt with pepper, sour cream and mayonese. Chop onion, fry it with vegetable oil, and then add to filling. 


Serve with sour cream.
Optional: Add burned butter sauce for serving.