Sweet Cheese Pierogi Filling Recipes

SWEET CHEESE PIEROGI FILLING

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• In a medium bowl, mix together the egg, salt, sugar, and vanilla. Add the farmer cheese, and mix thoroughly. Refrigerate, covered, until ready to use.
• Prepare your desired pierogi dough. You have many options including basic dough, sour cream dough, vegetarian dough, and gluten-free dough. Once you've made this filling and prepared the dough, you're ready to roll, fill, and cook the pierogi.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to a 1/8-inch thickness.
• Using a 3-inch round cutter (or glass with similar diameter), cut the dough. Gather the dough scraps, cover them with plastic wrap, and set aside. After you have cut all of the circles, roll out these scraps and make circles with the scrap dough as well.
• Drop the filling by tablespoonsful onto pierogi dough circles.
• Make sure your hands are clean and dry. Fold the dough over the filling to create a half-moon shape. Press the edges together, sealing and crimping with your fingers (or use a fork) as you would for the edge of a pie crust.
• Bring a deep pot of salted water to a rolling boil. Reduce the heat so it is simmering, and drop 12 pierogi at a time into the water. Stir once so they don't stick to the bottom. When they rise to the surface, cook 3 minutes or until the dough is done to your liking (based on the thickness of the dough).
• Butter a platter and use a slotted spoon to remove each pierogi from the water to the platter. Do not pour the pierogi into a colander to drain them as they will stick and break apart.
• Repeat until all pierogi are cooked.
• Serve with melted butter and enjoy.

COTTAGE CHEESE PEROGIES

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, mix together the cottage cheese, egg yolks, and 3/4 teaspoon of salt. Set aside.
• In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, 1 teaspoon of salt, and baking powder. Pour in the vegetable oil and cold water, and mix or knead into a smooth dough.
• Roll dough out on a lightly floured surface, and cut into 3 inch circles using a glass, can, or cookie cutter. Place a spoonful of the cottage cheese filling onto each circle. Fold in half, and pinch the edges together to seal.
• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Carefully drop the perogies into the water, and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, or until they float. Remove from water with a slotted spoon, and place on a cooling rack set over a baking sheet to drain excess water.

POLISH PIEROGI (CHEESE FILLING)

Steps:

• Combine all of the ingredients listed under filling and refrigerate until ready to assemble pierogi.
• Combine the ingredients listed under dough and knead until well blended (dough should be somewhat dry and about the consistency of play-doh, you can knead in more flour if needed).
• Twist off workable portions of dough and roll out very thin on a floured surface.
• Using a glass with a thin lip, dip lip of glass in flour and cut circles out of the dough.
• Place about 2 tsp filling in the center of each dough circle.
• Moisten outer edges with water and fold dough over to close.
• Seal edges by pressing gently with the back of a fork or pinching together with your fingers.
• Cook 12 pierogi at a time, reducing heat to a gentle boil; boil, stirring occasionally to keep from sticking to the bottom, until pierogi float to the surface (about 5 minutes).
• Rinse in cold water, then drizzle melted butter or vegetable oil over dough to keep from sticking.
• Repeat with remaining pierogi.
• At this point you can serve them warm, freeze them for later use, deep fry them until golden brown or pan fry them in butter with onions over medium heat, lightly browning both sides before serving.

CHEESE FILLING

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, cream together cream cheese and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla. Refrigerate before using to fill pastries prior to baking them.

FARMERS CHEESE PIEROGI THE REAL DEAL HERE!!!

Steps:

• Cheese Filling.
• Mix all together and chill.
• Dough.
• Mix all the dough ingredients together.
• knead into a pliable dough let the dough rest for about 10 minutes. cover with a WARM bowl then divide the dough into half place 1 half back under the warm bowl with the other roll out on a floured surface roll it thin use a circle cutter. place a spoonful of the cheese mixture to one side of dough moisten edges of circle with water before pressing firmly then drop them into boiling water for about 5 fives or until they float to top.Take out of water you can eat them like that or pan fry in butter but they taste the best fried with a side of sour cream or applesauce -- ENJOY and they freeze well too.