Ukraine / Dessert
Cherry varenyky
Dumplings of whole cherries and sugar. The juice stays inside if the fruit is tossed in starch first.
Ingredients
- Plain flour450 g
- Kefir250 ml
- Egg1
- Bicarbonate of soda1/2 tsp
- Pitted cherries600 g
- Sugar120 g
- Cornflour3 tbsp
- Butter50 g
- Soured creamto taste
- Salt1 pinch
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 5 steps
Mix the kefir with the bicarbonate and leave it five minutes, until it bubbles. Add the egg, salt and flour and knead for eight minutes.
Cover the dough and rest it half an hour. Meanwhile let the cherries drain in a colander.
Mix the starch with the sugar and toss the cherries in it right before shaping.
Roll the dough to two millimetres, cut discs, put three or four cherries on each and seal the rim dry, pressing the air out.
Boil in batches in a wide pot of salted water. Two minutes after they float, lift them out and butter them at once.
