Yeast-Dough Vareniky (Filled Dumplings)
Light, fluffy dumplings that practically jump into your mouth! Vareniky made with this dough disappear before you know it — one moment the plate is full, the next it's empty. Because they're so light, they don't sit heavy in your stomach, and the dough has a barely-there tang. You can use any filling you like: berries, farmer's cheese, potato, mushrooms — whatever suits you. I like mine with butter or sour cream, and if they're sweet, with berries, you can sprinkle them with sugar.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
The ingredients for the dumplings.
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Step 2:
Dissolve the yeast in warm water.
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Step 3:
Add the sour cream, salt, and sugar, and stir.
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Step 4:
Add the flour and knead the dough. Cover it with a cloth and let it rest. Here's how I tell it's ready: if it doesn't stick to your hands when you knead it, it's good to go.
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Step 5:
While the dough rests, make the filling. Peel the potatoes and boil them.
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Step 6:
Mash them into a purée, and don't forget the salt. If you like, add spices to taste.
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Step 7:
The dough is ready — start forming the dumplings.
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Step 8:
Divide it into small pieces and roll them out into rounds about 4 inches (10 cm) across.
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Step 9:
Place the filling on each round.
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Step 10:
Fold over and form each dumpling, pinching the edges firmly so they don't come apart while cooking.
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Step 11:
Once you've shaped all the dough into dumplings, it's time to cook them.
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Step 12:
Here's how: bring a pot of water to a boil (don't forget to salt it), drop in the dumplings, and once they float to the top, cook for about 10 minutes. Serve them up with butter or sour cream.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Ripe potatoes - 80 kcal/100g
- Baked potatoes - 70 kcal/100g
- Mashed potatoes - 380 kcal/100g
- Boiled potatoes - 82 kcal/100g
- Potatoes in uniform - 74 kcal/100g
- Fried potatoes - 192 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 30% fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 25 % fat content - 284 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 20 % fat content - 210 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115 kcal/100g
- Sour cream - 210 kcal/100g
- Pressed yeast - 109 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Peasant salted butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Melted butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Wheat flour - 325 kcal/100g
