1.5M views · 19K reactions | How to Make Michael's Potato and Cheese Pierogies | Potato and Cheese Pierogies like Michael D. Symon learned from his grandfather 🥹 How GOOD do these look?! Don't miss Michael on back-to-back new... | By Food Network | Michael Symon here. We are going to make some pierogi. This is like the base recipe that my grandfather taught me when I was young. So, we're going to go with an egg, some sour cream, and some butter. I haven't seen a lot of butter in this style dough but my grandfather always did it and I felt it gave it a more rich consistency that worked better with the pierogi. Now, we're going to put the flour now. We're going to make a little well. Put our butter egg sour cream mixture in the middle and then we just start working this together. When we first open Lola, our first restaurant in 199seven, Pierogies are kind of a Cleveland thing so we put them on the menu. They became insanely popular and at the time, my grandfather was in his eighties. He lived till he was a hundred and three. We had to bring him in to make Pierogies for the restaurant because we couldn't keep up. So, for the filling, potatoes that have been cooked and riced, a little bit of farmer's cheese. If you can't find farmer's cheese, ricotta would probably be your best option. We're putting a little bit of chive. Just so now with the dough you put down a little bit of bench flour and you could see how soft the dough is and it's easy to work my grandfather rolled his relatively thin so we cut one out and so you could see the thickness so I would say it's like twice as thick as a ravioli or a pot sticker then you just take a little bit of the filling and then you take your dough and you pull it over top seal it with your fingers and then you just take a fork and go all the way around but that's it put a boiling water. For every pound of pierogies, you're going to need about two tablespoons of salt and we're just going to plop em in here til they start to float. What my grandfather did was he always fried them in a little bit of butter. That dough should be cooked all the way through. Excitement You could see em start to brown up in that butter and this is what my grandfather did. That's why I'm smiling because it's making me think of him. So, we're going to take some of these chives but I'm going to add a little bit of pasta water. So, now we take those beautiful brown pillows from heaven. Take a little bit of this round butter, sauce, sour cream, or creme fresh Yes and I will now go silent.
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