Varenyky

Varenyky Recipe

Essential ingredients

• Kefir 2.5%

  125 g (½ cup)

• Baking soda

  3 g (½ tsp)

• Flour

  400 g (2½ cup)

• Potatoes

  400 g (4 pieces)

• Sunflower oil

  10 g (2 tsp)

• Butter 82.5%

  5 g (1 tbsp)

• Onions

  70 g (½ pieces)

Ingredients to taste

How to make

Please follow the next steps:

1. 1

   Peel, then cut washed potatoes into big pieces.

2. 2

   Cook in the salted water for about 20-25 mins, or until it becomes soft.

3. 3

   Peel and chop the onion.

4. 4

   Heat the sunflower oil in the frying pan; brown the onion.

5. 5

   Pour off the water from cooked potatoes; mash it properly. Add 1/3 of fried onion and butter. Season with pepper and salt and stir well. Set the stuffing aside to cool.

6. 6

   Mix the room temperature kefir with soda and salt. Stir well.

7. 7

   Stir in the flour and make dough. But remember, it shouldn't be sticky.

8. 8

   Split the dough into a roll and cut it into little pieces. Shape thin tablets with a rolling pin. Powder the table surface with the flour.

9. 9

   Put the stuffing in the middle of the tablet, then stick the edges together.

10. 10

    Place the finished varenyky on the flat working surface and powder with flour.

11. 11

    Cook the varenyky in salted water for 5 minutes or until they become well-padded.

12. 12

    Season the cooked varenyky with the remaining browned onion, pork fat, and parsley. Serve with sour cream.