Passport & Plate - Summer Varenyky with cherry and strawberry
Ukraine | Friday, March 14, 2014 | 6 photos
Ingredients
The Dough:
Water
Eggs
Flour
Melted butter
Salt
The Filling:
Cherry
Straberry
The Toppings:
Sugar
Sour Cream
How to prepare this recipeThe Dough:
Mix all ingredients together, and knead just a bit.
Cover it with an inverted bowl and let it stand for 30 minutes.
Sprinkle the working surface with some flour and roll out the dough to about 1/8 inch thickness.
Use a drinking glass or a round cookie cutter to get the perfect round circles.
Add about a teaspoon of filling to each circle.
Seal the edges tightly together with your fingers. When you are ready to eat them right away place them carefully in the boiling water. Varenyky will be ready when they float to the surface, in about 5 minutes.
Serve with a topping of your choice.
Enjoy :)
The story behind this recipeI want to share with you traditional Ukrainian recipe, comes from my grandmother.
Every summer, when my school holidays was started, I with my cousins was going to our countryside house. There you can spent all summer, growing the plants, reading books, swimming in the river, fishing, wondering around fields, playing active games with your cousins, lying on the ground and looking at the sky deep into the night.
The story comes from that time, from my childhood with my cousins and our grandmothers, who were quite strict. They wanted us to understand what does it mean to work, to understand the price of food, like potatoes or any fruit and vegetables in our garden. Every morning after delicious breakfast we had to pour plants in the garden. And you know, that was completely different taste, when you eat your own food, plants grown by your own hands.
When cherries and strawberries were ready we were making the varenyky with it. Grandmothers ask us go to the garden with big white beautiful plate and take most red-ripe fruits and get them to the kitchen. Then we started to make Varenyky all together. Every varenyk had very individual shape, seems it took our spirit. Mine was always overfull and big, my cousins always made very small ones. Our grandmothers made varenyky very accurate and perfect shape. It was challenge for us to make it as they do. Sometimes we had some success. Sometimes.
When everything was done and varenyky were cooked, we gathered together around the big table. Took our plates, folks and Grammies gave us glass of fresh milk and we took that beautiful and tasty varenyky as much as we can. Each of us was looking for their own varenyk and dress it with homemade sour cream and sugar. And the taste was just unbelievable, so fruity and full!
It was pure happiness. It was taste of childhood, freedom, nature, taste of our labour. Each time we became a bit more mature thanks to that family cooking and eating.
