Pierogies are something which we have imported from the Slavic cuisine. There are thousands of different ways that you can cook pierogies, this one is just the one I was told by my cooking teacher. Pierogies are most commonly half circular breads with either meat or vegetables inside, boiled, baked or fried. The pierogies I’m going to cook today is filled with a sauce made of minced beef and some vegetables, baked in the oven.

Here are the ingredients: (4 persons)

• 50 gram of yeast
• 2 dl of lukewarm water
• 300-400 gram of fluor
• 2-3 spoons of olive oil
• 300 gram of minced beef
• 2 leeks
• 1 onion
• Grated mozzarella cheese
• 1 egg
• Salt and pepper

Dissolve the yeast in the lukewarm water and add the oil and salt. Add the flour slowly, while you mix the dough.  Place the dough in a could place for about 30-60 minutes.  As for the meat I actually just use whatever I have that particular day. Start frying the onion, which you have chopped in to small pieces, and add the sliced leeks. When the leeks and onions have become shiny and they are starting to gain color, add the minced beef. Fry everything until the beef isn’t red anymore. Here comes the part where you can improvise. Today I added some salsa sauce, sambal oelek chili paste, fresh oregano and of cause salt and pepper. 

Now comes the fun part. I made 9 pierogies out of this amount of dough. Split the dough in 8-10 parts and roll each part out on a baking plate. Put some of the beef sauce on the one half of each piece of dough. Put some grated mozzarella cheese on the beef and close the pierogies by flipping the another half over the beef sauce and close it by tapping with a fork. As for the glaze, brush the top of the pierogies with egg. Now bake your pierogies in a pre-heated oven, at least 200-250 degrees Celsius (390-480 degrees Fahrenheit), until they obtain a nice brown color.

Serve the pierogies with a nice green salad. I just used some roccula, baby spinach, grape fruit, cucumber, feta cheese and some olive oil. Enjoy!