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Varenyky (Ukrainian
Ukrainian language

Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic languages of the Slavic languages. It is the official language of Ukraine. In some areas of Russia there are dialects, Balachka or Surzhyk, which are the Ukrainianized versions of the Russian language....
) or vareniki (Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
; in either language ????´????, singular ????´???) are a kind of stuffed dumpling associated with Ukrainian cuisine
Ukrainian cuisine

Ukrainian cuisine has a rich history and offers a wide variety of dishes. The cuisine of modern Ukraine is based on traditional Ukrainian recipes, Ukrainian recipes also bears influences from its neighbors' cuisines like Russian cuisine, German cuisine, Turkish cuisine and Polish cuisine, Lithuanian cuisine, and what can be called the Soviet...
. Some variants are also found in Belarusian
Belarusian cuisine

Belarusian cuisine derives from the same sources as those of its neighbours - Lithuanian cuisine, Cuisine of Ukraine, Polish cuisine, and in later times Russian cuisine....
, Russian
Russian cuisine

Russian cuisine derives its rich and varied character from the vast and multicultural expanse of Russia. Its foundations were laid by the peasant food of the rural population in an often harsh climate, with a combination of plentiful fish, poultry, game , mushrooms, Berry, and honey....
, Lithuanian
Lithuanian cuisine

Lithuanian cuisine features the products suited to its cool and moist northern climate: barley, potatoes, rye, beets, Leaf vegetable, berries, and mushrooms are locally grown, and dairy products are one of its specialities....
 and Polish
Polish cuisine

Polish cuisine is a mixture of Slavs and Germanic culinary traditions. It is rich in meat, especially chicken and pork, and winter vegetables , and spices, as well as different kinds of noodles the most notable of which are the pierogi....
 cooking. Vareniki are believed to originate from Chinese and Siberian influences, although sometimes they are said to be of Turkish origin.






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Varenyky
Varenyky (Ukrainian
Ukrainian language

Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic languages of the Slavic languages. It is the official language of Ukraine. In some areas of Russia there are dialects, Balachka or Surzhyk, which are the Ukrainianized versions of the Russian language....
) or vareniki (Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
; in either language ????´????, singular ????´???) are a kind of stuffed dumpling associated with Ukrainian cuisine
Ukrainian cuisine

Ukrainian cuisine has a rich history and offers a wide variety of dishes. The cuisine of modern Ukraine is based on traditional Ukrainian recipes, Ukrainian recipes also bears influences from its neighbors' cuisines like Russian cuisine, German cuisine, Turkish cuisine and Polish cuisine, Lithuanian cuisine, and what can be called the Soviet...
. Some variants are also found in Belarusian
Belarusian cuisine

Belarusian cuisine derives from the same sources as those of its neighbours - Lithuanian cuisine, Cuisine of Ukraine, Polish cuisine, and in later times Russian cuisine....
, Russian
Russian cuisine

Russian cuisine derives its rich and varied character from the vast and multicultural expanse of Russia. Its foundations were laid by the peasant food of the rural population in an often harsh climate, with a combination of plentiful fish, poultry, game , mushrooms, Berry, and honey....
, Lithuanian
Lithuanian cuisine

Lithuanian cuisine features the products suited to its cool and moist northern climate: barley, potatoes, rye, beets, Leaf vegetable, berries, and mushrooms are locally grown, and dairy products are one of its specialities....
 and Polish
Polish cuisine

Polish cuisine is a mixture of Slavs and Germanic culinary traditions. It is rich in meat, especially chicken and pork, and winter vegetables , and spices, as well as different kinds of noodles the most notable of which are the pierogi....
 cooking. Vareniki are believed to originate from Chinese and Siberian influences, although sometimes they are said to be of Turkish origin. Varenyky are similar to Polish pierogi
Pierogi

Pierogi , from the Proto-Slavic "pir" , is the name most commonly used in English speaking areas to refer to a variety of Slavic peoples semicircular boiled dumplings of Leavening dough stuffed with varying ingredients....
, Russian pelmeni
Pelmeni

Pelmeni are a Russia national dish, a type of dumpling consisting of a filling that is wrapped in thin unleavened dough. In other languages they are called by similar names: Belarusian language: ???????? pyal?meni; Tatar language: ?????? pilm?n; pel?meni; ; ....
, and Italian ravioli
Ravioli

Ravioli is a type of filled pasta composed of a filling sealed between two layers of thin pasta dough. The word ravioli is reminiscent of the Italian language verb ravvolgere , though the two words are not etymologically connected....
.

Description

Varenyky are square
Square (geometry)

In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular polygon with four equal sides and four equal angles . A square with vertices ABCD would be denoted ....
- or crescent
Crescent

In art and symbolism, a crescent is generally the shape produced when a circle disk has a segment of another circle removed from its edge, so that what remains is a shape enclosed by two circular arcs of different diameters which intersect at two points ....
-shaped dumplings of unleavened dough
Dough

This article is about a cooking ingredient. For the British sitcom episode, see Dough .Dough is a paste made out of any cereals or legume crops by mixing the flour with a small amount of water....
, stuffed with sauerkraut
Sauerkraut

File:Kiszona kapusta.JPGSauerkraut is finely shredded cabbage that has been fermentation by various lactic acid bacteria, including Leuconostoc, Lactobacillus, and Pediococcus....
, cheese
Cheese

Cheese is a food consisting of proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cattle, Water Buffalo, goats, or sheep's milk. It is produced by Coagulation of the milk protein casein....
, mashed potatoes
Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial plant Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family. The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well....
, cabbage
Cabbage

The cabbage is a leafy garden plant of the Family Brassicaceae , used as a Leaf vegetable. It is a herbaceous, biennial plant, dicotyledonous flowering plant distinguished by a short stem upon which is crowded a mass of leaves, usually green but in some varieties red or purplish, forming a characteristic compact, globular cluster ....
, meat
Meat

In modern English usage, meat most often refers to animal biological tissue used as food, mostly skeletal muscle and associated fat, but it may also refer to offal, including livers, skin, brains, bone marrow, kidneys, in some countries lungs, and a variety of other internal organs as well as blood....
, hard-boiled eggs
Egg (food)

An egg is a round or oval body laid by the female of many animals, consisting of an ovum surrounded by layers of membranes and an outer casing, which acts to nourish and protect a developing embryo and its nutrient reserves....
 (a Mennonite
Mennonite

The Mennonites are a group of Christianity Anabaptist denominations named after Menno Simons , though his writings articulated, and thereby, formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders....
 tradition) or a combination of these, or with a fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
 filling. Varenyky are very popular in Ukraine.

During preparation, the filling is wrapped with dough
Dough

This article is about a cooking ingredient. For the British sitcom episode, see Dough .Dough is a paste made out of any cereals or legume crops by mixing the flour with a small amount of water....
, boiled
Boiling

Boiling, a type of phase transition, is the rapid vaporization of a liquid, which typically occurs when a liquid is heated to its boiling point, the temperature at which the vapor pressure of the liquid is equal to the pressure exerted on the liquid by the surrounding environmental pressure....
 for several minutes, and then covered with butter or cooking oil
Cooking oil

Cooking oil is purified fat of plant origin, which is liquid at room temperature.Some of the many different kinds of edible Vegetable fats and oilss include: olive oil, palm oil, soybean oil, canola oil, pumpkin seed oil, corn oil, sunflower oil, safflower oil, peanut oil, grape seed oil, sesame oil, argan oil and rice bran oil....
. The name varenyk, in fact, simply means "boiled thing," from the adjective varenyy. In certain regions of Ukraine they do not boil vareniks, but cook them with the help of steam so that they become big and juicy. Varenyky are typically topped with fried salo
Salo (food)

Salo is a traditional Central and Eastern European food: slabs of pork Adipose tissue, with or without skin. As a trend, the Eastern European one is edible salt or brine fermented, hence the names slonina/slana/szalonna ....
 bits (shkvarky) and onion
Onion

Onion is a term used for many plants in the genus Allium. They are known by the common name "onion" but, used without qualifiers, it usually refers to Allium cepa....
s and accompanied with sour cream
Sour cream

Sour cream is a dairy product rich in fats obtained by fermenting a regular cream by certain kinds of lactic acid bacteria. The bacterial culture, introduced either deliberately or naturally, sours and thickens the cream....
 ( smetana). Left-over varenyky may be fried
Frying

Frying is the cooking of food in oil or fat, a technique that originated in ancient Old_Kingdom around 2500BC. Chemically, oils and fats are the same, differing only in melting point, but the distinction is only made when needed....
. Sweet, fruit-filled varenyky are served with sour cream and sugar. Raw varenyky (with the dough uncooked) can be stored frozen, then cooked in three minutes, which makes them a convenience food
Convenience food

Convenience food, or tertiary processed food, is commercially prepared food designed for ease of consumption. Products designated as convenience foods are often preprepared food stuffs that can be sold as hot, ready-to-eat dishes; as room temperature, shelf-stable products; or as refrigerated or frozen products that require minimal prep...
.

Other preparation methods include the Latvia
Latvia

Latvia The Latvians are a Baltic peoples culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Latvian language having many similarities with Lithuanian language, but not with the Estonian language....
n tradition of glazing with egg white
Egg white

File:Chicken egg01 monovular.jpgEgg white is the common name for the clear liquid contained within an Egg . It is the cytoplasm of the egg, which until fertilization is a single Cell ....
, baking
Baking

Baking is the technique of prolonged cooking of food by dry heat acting by Heat convection, and not by Thermal radiation, normally in an oven, but also in hot ashes, or on hot stones....
, and serving with soup
Soup

Soup is a food that is made by combining ingredients such as meat and vegetables in Stock or hot/boiling water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth....
; the Mennonite
Mennonite

The Mennonites are a group of Christianity Anabaptist denominations named after Menno Simons , though his writings articulated, and thereby, formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders....
 tradition of baking and serving with borscht
Borscht

Borscht is a vegetable soup from Eastern Europe. It is traditionally made with beetroot as a main ingredient which gives it a strong red color....
; and the Polish tradition of boiling, frying in butter
Butter

Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermentation cream or milk. It is generally used as a spread and a condiment, as well as in cooking applications such as baking, sauce making, and frying....
, and topping with bread
Bread

Bread is a staple food prepared by baking a dough of flour and water. It may be leavened or unleavened. Edible salt, fat and a leavening agent such as yeast are common ingredients, though bread may contain a range of other ingredients: milk, Egg , sugar, spice, fruit , vegetables , Nut or seeds ....
 crumbs.

Varieties of vareniki

Vareniki come with a wide variety of either savory or sweet fillings. Here is a list of vareniki served in a restaurant specializing in national Ukrainian dishes:

Savory:
  • Potatoes and mushrooms
  • Mushrooms
  • Cabbage
  • Cabbage and mushrooms
  • Sauerkraut
    Sauerkraut

    File:Kiszona kapusta.JPGSauerkraut is finely shredded cabbage that has been fermentation by various lactic acid bacteria, including Leuconostoc, Lactobacillus, and Pediococcus....
     (sauteed)
  • Salty white cheese
  • Fish (salmon
    Salmon

    Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the family are called trout,the difference is often attributed to the migratory life of the salmon as compared to the residential behaviour of trout, this holds true for the Atlantic salmon....
     and pike-perch)
  • Meat (pork and beef mixture)
  • Meat and cabbage
  • Liver (beef)
  • Offal
    Offal

    Offal is the entrails and internal organs of a butchered animal. The word does not refer to a particular list of organs, but includes most internal organs other than muscles or bones....
     (mixture of beef lung, heart, liver, "Old Ukrainian style")
Savory varieties are usually topped with melted butter, sour cream, fried salo
Salo (food)

Salo is a traditional Central and Eastern European food: slabs of pork Adipose tissue, with or without skin. As a trend, the Eastern European one is edible salt or brine fermented, hence the names slonina/slana/szalonna ....
, and fried onions.

Sweet:
  • Fresh white cheese
  • Cherry
    Cherry

    The word cherry refers to a fleshy fruit that contains a single stony seed. The cherry belongs to the family Rosaceae, genus Prunus, along with almonds, peaches, plums, apricots and bird cherry ....
  • Bilberry
    Bilberry

    Bilberry is a name given to several species of low-growing shrubs in the genus Vaccinium that bears false berrys. The species most often referred to is Vaccinium myrtillus L., otherwise known as the European blueberry....
    , or blueberry
    Blueberry

    Blueberries are flowering plants in the genus Vaccinium, sect. Cyanococcus. The species are native only to North America. They are shrubs varying in size from 10 cm tall to 4 m tall; the smaller species are known as "lowbush blueberries" , and the larger species as "highbush blueberries"....
     in North America
  • Raspberry
    Raspberry

    The raspberry is the edible fruit of a multitude of plant species in the subgenus Rubus#Scientific classification of the genus Rubus; the name also applies to these plants themselves....
  • Strawberry
    Strawberry

    Fragaria is the name of a genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, commonly known as strawberries for their edible fruits....
Sweet varieties are usually topped with melted butter, sour cream, and sometimes raspberry jam.

Lazy vareniki

Lazy vareniki in Russian and Ukrainian cuisine are gnocchi
Gnocchi

Gnocchi is the Italian name for a variety of thick, soft noodle or dumpling. They may be made from semolina, ordinary wheat flour, potato, bread crumbs, or similar ingredients....
-shaped dumplings made by mixing farmer cheese
Farmer cheese

Farmer cheese is a simple cheese often used for fillings in blintzes and other foods. Farmer cheese is made by pressing most of the moisture from cottage cheese; pressed drier still, it is sometimes rolled in a mixture of herbs and flavorings, or wrapped in very thin slices of flavorful smoked meats....
 with egg and flour into quick dough. The cheese-based dough is formed into a long sausage about 2 cm thick, which is cut diagonally into gnocchi, called galushki in Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
 or halushki in Ukrainian
Ukrainian language

Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic languages of the Slavic languages. It is the official language of Ukraine. In some areas of Russia there are dialects, Balachka or Surzhyk, which are the Ukrainianized versions of the Russian language....
. The dumplings are then quickly boiled in salted water and served with sour cream or melted butter. The name "lazy vareniki" faithfully reflects the very quick preparation time of the dish: it usually takes ten to fifteen minutes from assembling the simple ingredients to serving the cooked dumplings. Lazy vareniki differ from standard vareniki in the same way that Italian gnocchi
Gnocchi

Gnocchi is the Italian name for a variety of thick, soft noodle or dumpling. They may be made from semolina, ordinary wheat flour, potato, bread crumbs, or similar ingredients....
 differ from ravioli
Ravioli

Ravioli is a type of filled pasta composed of a filling sealed between two layers of thin pasta dough. The word ravioli is reminiscent of the Italian language verb ravvolgere , though the two words are not etymologically connected....
 or tortellini
Tortellini

Tortellini is a variety of ring-shaped pasta. They are typically stuffed with a mix of meat . Originally from the Italy region of Emilia , they are usually served in broth, with cream, or sometimes with a rag?....
: these are fluffy solid dumplings, not stuffed pockets of dough. A similar dish in Polish cuisine
Polish cuisine

Polish cuisine is a mixture of Slavs and Germanic culinary traditions. It is rich in meat, especially chicken and pork, and winter vegetables , and spices, as well as different kinds of noodles the most notable of which are the pierogi....
 is called lazy pierogi
Pierogi

Pierogi , from the Proto-Slavic "pir" , is the name most commonly used in English speaking areas to refer to a variety of Slavic peoples semicircular boiled dumplings of Leavening dough stuffed with varying ingredients....
 .

Monumental varenyky

A monument to varenyky was inaugurated in Cherkasy
Cherkasy

Cherkasy is a city in central Ukraine. It is the Capital city of the Cherkasy Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Cherkasky Raion within the oblast....
, Ukraine in September 2006. The monument erected at the entrance to a hotel shows Cossack Mamay (a Ukrainian folklore hero whose fondness for varenyky was narrated by both Taras Shevchenko
Taras Shevchenko

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was a Ukrainians poet, artist and Humanism. His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and, to a large extent, the modern Ukrainian language....
 and Nikolay Gogol) eating varenyky from an earthenware pot, with a huge crescent-shaped varenyk behind him.

In 1991, a roadside monument with a giant perogy (a variant of varenyk) was erected in the village of Glendon
Glendon, Alberta

Glendon is a village in northern Alberta north of St. Paul, Alberta.In 1993, the town unveiled its roadside attraction to the pierogi. Their "Giant Perogy," complete with fork, is 25 feet tall....
 in Alberta
Alberta

Alberta is one of Canada Canadian Prairies Provinces and territories of Canada. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
.

See also

  • Pelmeni
    Pelmeni

    Pelmeni are a Russia national dish, a type of dumpling consisting of a filling that is wrapped in thin unleavened dough. In other languages they are called by similar names: Belarusian language: ???????? pyal?meni; Tatar language: ?????? pilm?n; pel?meni; ; ....
  • Pierogi
    Pierogi

    Pierogi , from the Proto-Slavic "pir" , is the name most commonly used in English speaking areas to refer to a variety of Slavic peoples semicircular boiled dumplings of Leavening dough stuffed with varying ingredients....
  • Kalduny
    Kalduny

    Kalduny or kolduny are stuffed dumplings made of unleavened dough in Belarusian cuisine, Lithuanian cuisine, and Polish cuisine cuisines, akin to the Russian cuisine pelmeni and the Ukrainian cuisine vareniki....
  • Syrniki
    Syrniki

    In Russian cuisine, Belarusian cuisine, Lithuanian cuisine, Polish cuisine, and Ukrainian cuisines, syrniki are fried Quark ladushki, garnished with sour cream, jam, honey, or apple sauce....
  • Gyoza


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