Ingredients

Filling

  • 5 lbs red potatoes
  • 2 lbs onions chopped
  • 1/4 cup canola oil
  • 1 head of red cabbage
  • Salt
  • Pepper


Dough

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 cups white whole wheat flour
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 2 TBSP canola oil
  • 2 TBSP non-fat yogurt
  • 1 cup warm water


Directions for filling

  1. Boil potatoes and cabbage until tender.
  2. Remove skins of potato and mash.
  3. Blend cabbage in food processor and combine with potatoes.
  4. In a pan cook onions on medium heat with oil until tender.
  5. Combine onions with potato and cabbage.
  6. Season with salt and pepper.
Directions for Dough

  1. Mix water, canola oil, salt, and non-fat yogurt in a large bowl.
  2. Mix in white whole wheat flour.
  3. With your hands knead in the remainder of the flour.
  4. Continue needing for 5 minutes.


Directions for Assembly
  1. Roll out half of the dough in a large circle 1/16 inch thick.
  2. Place filling in a row spaced. See below for spacing.
  3. Fold dough over filling and press together all sides making sure filling is completely sealed in.
  4. Cut out individual pierogies.
  5. Boil in salted water for 15 minutes.
  6. Freezing a pierogi is easy. Just place them on a cookie sheet separately. Doing so, will allow them to freeze separately and prevent them from sticking together in a frozen mess. A day later, combine them into a freezer bag.

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