Pirozhki- Russian little pies. Make Potato Pirozhki for a Supper.
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Now it's all about Pirozhki!
If you are reading about Pirozhki before you have read about Belyashi, you are more then welcome to visit here and read why I cook mostly Russian cuisine, what is “Belyashi” and how to make a delicious lunch (dinner, supper) for your family and friends. You will see, that it is rather simple to make it!
This time I'll teach you how to make Pirozhki.
Pirozhki (or Piroshki) are individual-sized baked or fried buns (pies) stuffed with a variety of fillings. My favorites are pirozhki with potatoes.
What to start with.
Make mashed potatoes. Should I teach you how to make it? May be just a little tip. Chop an onion and fry it in olive oil till it is light brown. Mash it into potatoes. Add spices (salt, pepper, dill weed)
Put pieces of dinner roll dough on a plate and let them thaw until they are soft and fluffy.
Flatten each piece of the dinner roll dough with a rolling-pin. Use flower to dust it so that the dough won’t stick to a roller.
It is simple! Just put it all together!
Another way to make them! Bake them!
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Vladimir, you'll have to wait till another batch. This one is gone already! My son and his friends love when I make Russian food!
Hmm... the name and the ingredients sound sililar to Polish pierogies-- yet the latter are boiled and then sauteeed in oil. Different?
I know Polish Pierogies, and love them! In Russian they have a name "vareniki", because they are boiled ("varit'" means "to boil") and "vareniki" may be filled also with soft cheese, or berries. I think that Slavic languages use a lot of similar words for similar, yet slightly different concepts. Russian pirozhki are fried of baked. Russian pirogi are actually pies, as Americans know them.
OmG! This really looks super yummy! We have to make this soon!
Yes, try them! Your hubby will love them!
I just shared this in my facebook. I have family and friends who will love it! My daughter will make it for us.
Thank you, Sylvia, you are so nice. You can also make them with ground meet, or rice and eggs, even with steamed chopped cabbage.
No wonder you don't any to spare--they look delicious. The way you make them reminds me of a Singaporean favorite--curry puffs. We use potatoes seasoned with curry powder, some minced meat and onion and we wrap it the same way you do. Also very yummy and they sell them in every street corner.
Angeline, my friend, thank you so much for visiting and commenting! When you come here I'll make those for you! Does it sound inviting?
Oh, how these remind me of my (late) grandmother's vareniki! Your pirozhki actually appear to be a combination of her varenikis (the filling) and my family's empanadas - yum!
Oh, Lily Rose, I love vareniki! I wrote about the difference between vareniki and pirozhki in my response to Rochelle's. Vareniki are boiled ("vatit'" means "to cook by boiling")
I love empanadas too! Yammm. Different cultures have same types of foods, just call them different names. In Russia empanadas are called "chebureki".
Excellent hub, and since iam Russian i know how to make them but your recipe is a little different i love it, should i make my dough or buy it? Privet, Poka. Love all koma.
Privet, koma and hank you for your approval. I always buy the dinner roll dough. It's too complicated for me to make dough by myself, though it is also possible; I wrote about it in my hub about "belyashi". Spasibo. Poka.
Yum! There is a vendor at the farmer's markets that I go to, she and her husband sell home-made pirozhkis both baked and fried. I get them for my husband a lot. His fav is beef and cheese.
So, just to clarify, you don't cook the meat before you seal it in the dough? You let the oven bake the meat? I don't have a lot of time to cook these days but my husband does!!
Thanks for the great instructions RueVera :)
Thank you, Madame X for your nice words. Actually I make pirozhki only with mashed potatoes. But I make belyashi with ground meet, mostly turkey. For belyashi I use uncooked ground meat. For pirozhki we usually use browned ground meat. You brown it in a skillet or in a microwave. Belyashi are opened so meat gets cooked fully. Pirozhki are closed, so it's better to use pre-cooked meat for pirozhki. Also, when I use ground meat I always mix it with fried chopped onion.
I love them. You can get raw pizza dough in the bakery department, it's delicious fried. I'm glad I stopped in, I almost forgot about these delicious treats. Thank you.
Raw pizza dough? I should definitely try it! Thank you for a tip.
Vladimir Uhri says:
4 months ago
What a goodies. Am I invited?