What is special about pierogi dough?
I wanted to make home-made pierogis. Is there a special dough that needs to be used? I wanted the pierogis to be fairly thick - what type of dough would work best?
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You should be fine using a regular homemade pasta dough.
I learned to make perogis with a standard egg dough - egg, flour, water, and oil. The filling is dry curd cottage cheese, salt, and eggs. To shape them we use a nifty hand tart cutter that I can't find online anywhere. Then we boil them in water for about 10 minutes to cook. Serve with melted butter.
Some pierogi recipes include sour cream in the dough; they also often have more egg than a typical basic pasta dough.
Like @justkt said you should be fine using regular homemade pasta dough. If you want something more specific though I used this recipe from Food.com. Its super good. Especially since I also made the cottage cheese myself as well.
Quite often pierogi doughs are vegan, especially if you are making the peirogies for X-mas eve (where in many sects, you don't eat meat the on X-mas eave, and fish is not considered a meat).
2 cups flour
~1/2 cup warm water
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon salt
Mix all together, and give it a little knead to make it consistent, but no
more - otherwise you'll make the dough tough
Then you roll out the dough, cut circles with a large mouth jar or a glass, stuff and pinch closed. Boil till dough is cooked or par-boil and then fry in a pan. Add onions, butter and bacon to taste.
Typical fillings include mashed potatoes (sometimes with cheese), cottage cheese (dry), sour kraut, fruit (desert), rarely cooked meat - anything you can stuff in it.
(yah I know, I mentioned vegan earlier, but vegan tastes a lot better when you add butter and bacon *rim-shot*)
Here is a generation recipe for a light pierogy dough;
4 cups flour
2 eggs
5 TBSP sour cream
3 TBSP oil
3/4 cup water
as noted above, add you filling and toss in boiling water. When they float their done.
I use a Chinese basket brush to retrieve from the water and toss in fried onions and butter to prevent sticking.
Here's how you make'm.
5 cups of flour
5 eggs
8 oz's of sour cream
1/4 cup of water....
That makes the dough, cover it with a towel for 10 minutes.
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