Ukrainian Pieroghi

Submitted by marycate

"My next door neighbor taught me how to make these when I used to babysit her kids. Her parents were from Ukraine and this is what they made. They are scrumptious...way better than the frozen kind."

 

• Ready In: 52mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• For filling

• 3 cups mashed potatoes (totally guessing...they made me enter an amount. 3 cups should be more than enough.)
• 1 chopped onion
• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1 cup Velveeta cheese (to taste, really, just use however much you want, again, I had to enter an amount. I am just guessin)

• For dough

• 2 cups flour
• 1 beaten egg
• 1 - 1 1⁄2 cup water

directions

1. For filling: make mashed potatoes as usual, butter, salt, pepper, milk or cream; however you usually make it.
2. Saute onion in butter till tender. Add to potatoes.
3. Add velveeta cheese to potatoes, to taste.
4. Set aside.
5. For dough: make well in the 2 cups of flour. Pour beaten egg in well and mix.
6. Add 1 to 1 1/2 cups water and mix.
7. Make into long ropes of dough. Cut into little squares and flatten them out.
8. Spoon potato mixture into squares and fold over. Make sure the sides are completely pinched together.
9. Place in salted boiling water for 7 minutes. Don't overcrowd the pot, batches are best.
10. Enjoy.
11. Just guessing on the servings.