Recipe - Potato Varenikes

DOUGH
3 cup All purpose flour
2 Eggs
One fourth cup Oil
1 teaspoon Salt
One half cup Warm water

POTATO FILLING
3 lg Onions; chopped; (up to 4)
One half cup Oil or chicken fat
4 lg Potatoes; cooked in their
skins
Salt and pepper
1 pn Nutmeg

SAVORY CHEESE FILLING
2 cup Fresh cheese
One half cup Green onions; white and
green parts; thinly cut or sliced up
1 Egg
Salt and pepper

Place flour in a bowl. Add the rest of the ingredients. Turn dough onto a
floured board and knead until smooth, adding more flour if needed. Roll out
dough try to make it thin.Cut out 3 inch circles. Place filling, brush
boards with a little egg white, fold like turnovers, pressing the boards.
Cook in salted boiling water until they rise to the surface.

Potato Filling: Cook onions in fat until they are crisp and almost brown.
Peel the potatoes as soon as they are cool enough to handle.Mash the
potatoes adding the onions along with the fat.Season.

Savory Cheese Filling: Stir everything together and use.

*NOTE: I serve my potato varenikes topped with onions cooked in oil. The
cheese ones are served with melted butter.

Recipe by: Miriam Podcameni Posvolsky

Posted to EATL Digest by Leon & Miriam Posvolsky miriamp@POBOX.COM on
Dec 3, 1997