For the pierogi filling:
- 2 lbs Farmer's cheese
- ½ cup Sugar
- 1 Eggs
For the pierogi dough:
- 2 Eggs
- 2 tbsp Sour cream
- ½ cup Waterlukewarm
- 1 cup Milk
- 4 cups All-purpose flour
- 3 tbsp Sugar
- 1 tsp Salt
Vareniki with Farmers Cheese
Put this Vareniki with Farmers Cheese on the menu for your next potluck dinner night. The other guests will talk about these delicious dumplings for weeks, if not months after! People will ask you for the recipe for this vareniki with cheese. The best thing about this recipe is that it is really easy to make. People often think that dumplings are fiddly to make but once you start these, you will fly through making them!
To make this vareniki with farmer cheese recipe, start by combining cheese, sugar and egg to make the dumpling filling. Prepare a pastry dough using eggs, sour cream, water, flour, sugar and salt. Knead and roll out the dough and using a cookie cutter or cup, cut the dough into circles. Place a spoonful of filling on each pastry circle and fold to create a scallop-edged dumpling. Cook in boiling water and serve warm with sour cream or jam. Yum!
To make my Vareniki with Farmers Cheese, you will need the following ingredients:
Steps to make Vareniki with Farmers Cheese
1 | Make filling | 2 |
Combine ½ a cup of sugar with 2 pounds of farmer's cheese and 1 egg in a bowl. When the ingredients are fully mixed, set to one side. | ||
2 | Make dough | 2 |
Mix 2 eggs together with 2 tablespoons of sour cream, ½ a cup of lukewarm water and 1 cup of milk until you have a smooth mixture. | ||
3 | Knead dough | 3 |
Add 4 cups of flour, 3 tablespoons of sugar and 1 teaspoon of salt. Bring mixture together and knead the dough by hand or using a stand-up mixer until it is no longer sticky. | ||
4 | Cut out pierogi wrappers | 5 |
Roll the pierogi dough on a floured surface. Cut out dough circles using a floured cup or cookie cutters. | ||
5 | Fill dumplings | 5 |
Place a spoonful of filling in the center of each dough circle. | ||
6 | Shape the dumplings | 5 |
Fold each dough piece in half and press the edges together firmly using your fingers. Make sure that the seal is tight enough for your filling not to fall out. Use your fingers to create a scalloped edge by pinching along the sealed dough. | ||
7 | Repeat | 20 |
Repeat the process until all the dough and filling is used. | ||
8 | Cook | 20 |
Bring a large saucepan of water to boil. Place 10-20 pierogi in the pan and cook until the dumplings float to the top. Drain and top with melted unsalted butter. Repeat until all the pierogi are cooked. | ||
9 | Serve | 3 |
Serve with sour cream, jam or sugar. | ||
Recipe Reviews
Not a huge fan i think the potato pierogi is better savoury is always best when it comes to dumplings the sweetness makes it taste a bit weird.
Ukrainian foods are always interesting i tried the cherry vareniki too and both are equally delicious in my opinion.
My daughter loveees this with some blueberry jam it's like her favorite thing to eat haha.
Delicious!! I swapped out normal milk for coconut instead though.
Loved this farmer cheese verniki, had it for dessert today :)
You guys are AWESOME!! legit the best desserts on the planet are served here.
Mine came out very soggy and not too tasty.
If you're looking for a simple fast dumpling recipe that's sweet and not frozen this is it.
Not a huge fan i think the potato pierogi is better savoury is always best when it comes to dumplings the sweetness makes it taste a bit weird.
Great idea can't wait to try this out tonight but might change a few things cause I'm not a huge fan of sourcream with sweet stuff.
Wow this was fun to make and tasted fantastic, super simple too thx.
My daughter loveees this with some blueberry jam it's like her favorite thing to eat haha.
Well done! Thanks for sharing!
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