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Pirohy

Name: Pirohy
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Slovakia
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 1 Egg; 120ml Water; 3 Potato; 100g Feta Cheese; 1 Onion; 40g Butter; To taste Sour cream; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Half-moon Slovak dumplings filled with cheese and potato and boiled.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pirohy are half-moon dumplings of wheat dough filled with potato and bryndza cheese, or jam or cottage cheese, and boiled. Related to Polish pierogi, they're especially loved in eastern Slovakia. Once boiled, they're topped with melted butter, crisp bacon, and sour cream.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a village kitchen in eastern Slovakia, grandmother covers the table with half-moon dumplings and drops them one after another into a steaming pot.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

All-purpose flour 300g
Egg 1
Water 120ml
Potato 3
Feta Cheese 100g
Onion 1
Butter 40g
Sour cream To taste
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the flour, egg, water, and a pinch of salt into a dough and rest 30 minutes.
Boil and mash the potatoes and mix with the crumbled cheese and pepper.
Roll the dough thin, cut 7cm rounds, add filling, fold into half-moons, and press the edges firmly.
Boil in salted water for 3 minutes after they float.
Fry sliced onion in butter until golden, pour over the pirohy, and serve with sour cream.

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