How to Make Vareniki, Vareniki/Pierogi Recipe - Домашние вареники с вишней

Hi guys, welcome to my YouTube channel Alice Yummy Food. Today I'm making a very Eastern European and Russian dish called Vareniki, which are the dumplings not filled with meat, which are pelmeni. These will be filled with sweet stuff like jam or cherries or cottage cheese, which I'll show you today. They actually originally come from Ukraine and we eat them a lot in Latvia. They're eaten all over Russia and today I'll bring them to you. Okay, the ingredients for the dough are really simple, and it's the same method of making them as pelmeni, which I will put the link below. We've got 400 grams of plain flour, 1 tablespoon of caster sugar, a pinch of salt, I've got 2 eggs and a cup of water, which we'll be using depending on how much the dough needs. For the fillings, I've got cottage cheese, Russian one, and I've got sweet cherries. So I've taken the dough and it's all combined and now we still need to knead it for quite a while until it becomes really really easy to work with and elastic. So just take it, fold it, take it again, just do that. Put some flour on the surface, make sure it doesn't stick. Okay it's all done, very easy to work with now, very elastic. All we have to do is now wrap it in some foil and put it in the fridge for half an hour. Okay so my dough has been refrigerated for about half an hour, now all we have to do All you have to do is roll it out. Into sort of a big big square and into quite thin pastry. Just do it slowly easy to work with the flour Okay, so I've just rolled it all out. I cut the edges off to make a square So we want the same looking pieces now with a knife or anything sharp you have which is gonna Lightly scroll down and make equal squares Okay, so I've got my fillings ready. I've put some caster sugar into the cottage cheese because I like it sweet. You don't have to do that. You can make them salty as well. So I've got my cherries here. So all we have to do is just touch the square. I would say put about two cherries in the middle. And then we just pinch it from the top, just like that. Push that one inside. Just pinch it on this side as well. We need to make sure it stays together. Otherwise it's going to open while it's cooking. I make these kind of triangles. Just like that. Place them on a plate. Floured plate. And do the rest. Okay, these are all done. I've got the cottage cheese and cherry filling. I've actually also tried some with strawberry jam for someone special. So we'll see how that turns out. So I've put my boiling water here. I've added a bit of salt and a bit of sugar because it's pasta. So we need to make sure it doesn't stick together. So when it starts to boil, we're just going to drop in our vareniki in. I'm going to cook them for about 5 to 10 minutes. Once they're done, I'm going to serve them with some sour cream and jam. Okay, it's all done. Steaming hot. Looks absolutely amazing. I've put some cherries on the side and a gulp of smetana sour cream on top. Maybe another cherry just to make it look really pretty. Can't wait to eat this. Okay, I'm going to dig in and cut one open now. So when you cut it open, you should see the cherries just in there. Oh, it looks good. Bit of sour cream. Mmm. Oh my god. These are amazing guys. I know what I'm eating for dinner now. I hope you try this recipe. If you enjoyed it, please subscribe to my channel and check out all my other recipes. Bye! DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, DJ.