Cherry Vareniky
The trouble with cherry vareniky is juice bursting out in the pan. The fix is simple: let the cherries stand with sugar, drain them and thicken the filling with a spoonful of starch. Keep the drained juice — it makes the best sauce for the finished dumplings.
- Prep
- 50 min
- Cook
- 15 min
- Rest
- 30 min
- Total
- 1 h 35 min
- Servings
- 6
- Level
- Medium
- Per serving
- 340 kcal
Ingredients
Dough
Filling
Makes: about 50 vareniky
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Method
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Step 1: Make the dough
Scald the sifted flour and salt with hot water, add the oil and knead until smooth. Cover and rest for 30 minutes.
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Step 2: Sugar the cherries
Toss the pitted cherries with the sugar and leave for 20 minutes. They release a lot of juice — which is exactly what we want out of the way.
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Step 3: Drain them
Tip into a sieve, saving the juice in a cup, and pat the cherries dry with kitchen paper.
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Step 4: Thicken the filling
Dust the cherries with the starch and fold gently. The starch binds whatever juice appears inside the dumpling.
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Step 5: Shape
Roll the dough to 2 mm and cut circles. Put 3–4 cherries on each, seal the edge firmly and go round it twice — cherries like to burst out.
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Step 6: Boil
Cook in a large pan of salted boiling water in batches of 12. Once they float, give them 3 minutes.
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Step 7: Serve
Lift out with a slotted spoon, pour over the saved juice and serve with sour cream.
Tips & variations
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Tip
Thaw frozen cherries completely and drain them well, or you get twice the juice.
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Tip
Do not overfill: four cherries is as much as the seal will hold through boiling.
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Variation
Strawberries work the same way, with half the sugar — they are sweeter and juicier.
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Storage
Freeze raw vareniky in a single layer on a board, then bag them. Cook from frozen, one minute longer.
Nutrition
| 1 serving | Whole dish 6 servings | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 340 kcal | 2,040 kcal |
| Protein | 8 g | 48 g |
| Fat | 5 g | 30 g |
| Carbohydrates | 66 g | 396 g |
Approximate values calculated from standard ingredient data.
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