Finally, after way too long on this earth as a Polish American, getting into the pierogi game. I'm hosting a group dinner with homemade kielbasa and pierogis in a couple weeks. I've made sweet cheese, potato cheddar, potato cheddar bacon, and apricot so for. Planning on sweet potato caramelized onion, and bacon Swiss camelized onion as well.
I'm curious if anybody had any surprising fillings to use or try, or not try.
Also, I was pleasantly surprised by the result of throwing a couple sweet cheese pierogis on the smoker today.
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I will make mine with potato, cheese and caramelized onions, kraut for the most part. I will also make a dozen or so with cooked prunes too. Very time consuming, but worth it. I typically make the dough Pittsburgh style with sour cream.
My own Polish paternal grandmother (1885-1989) would make sauerkraut/ground beef, potato and cheese, and prune pierogi. In the proper half-moon shape I must add, as my own mother once spent an entire day making a batch for my dad. Her first time. They were triangular. So proud was she as she served them to him. His response? These are the wrong shape. You can imagine her response.
I am an experience cook but pierogi dough is something I have never mastered. Good luck to you. Ciesz się posiłkiem I na zdrowie.
The gathering that I am serving them is Saturday. I will say the caramelized onion/bacon/Swiss was probably my favorite of the fillings. I am curious what people will like. The apricot filling turned out surprisingly good. People are expecting potato because that is what is in the freezer aisle, but it was easily the weakest of the bunch and the most likely to ooze out and keep me from folding the dough over.
ApopkaDave , talk about dough, my grandmother used to make paczkis that I have never tasted again n my life. Stopped in a Polish bakery once and this older lady told me it was due to the ingredients that are very hard to find, at least here in the USA.
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I’ve had mushroom before and they were awesome! Actually Santa brought me a pierogi cookbook last year. The recipes are old timey and new world, as it were.
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