Russian
Vareniki with Potato Filling
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Boil the potatoes until tender, drain, and mash with 2 tablespoons of the butter and half the salt.
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Saute the diced onion in the remaining butter until golden and stir half into the mashed potato.
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Mix the flour, egg, water, and remaining salt into a smooth dough and rest 15 minutes.
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Roll the dough thin and cut into rounds, spoon a little potato filling onto each, and fold and pinch into half-moons.
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Boil the vareniki in salted water 4 to 5 minutes until they float and are cooked through.
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Serve hot topped with the remaining fried onion and a spoonful of sour cream.
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Serve it with
A Russian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Vareniki with Potato Filling, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Vareniki with Potato Filling carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Gorohovyi Sup (Split Pea Soup with Smoked Sausage) |
| Gluten | Yes | Boiled Potatoes with Dill and Butter |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Baked Chicken with Potatoes |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 600 kcal
- Protein
- 13 g
- Carbs
- 97 g
- Fat
- 18 g
- Fiber
- 6 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 860 mg
- Saturated fat
- 11 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Vareniki with Potato Filling takes about 75 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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