ВАРЕНИКИ, PIEROGI, RAVIOLI, DUMPLINGS, ПИРОГИ, MAULTASCHEN, VARENYKY...

Pierogi are a special treat. Ukrainians believe that Pierogi have a magical meaning, and our cooks make them incredibly tasty! Nowadays, few people think about how and where such a dish of Ukrainian cuisine as everyone’s favorite pierogi came from. Surprisingly, Turkey is considered their homeland! When Ukrainians tried Turkish doush-vara, they were delighted with it and adopted the cooking recipe, but slightly changed the filling and simplified the method of making the dough. What are dumplings called in Poland? Pies - Wikipedia Pies (Polish: pierogi) are a traditional dish of Polish cuisine. A complete analog of Ukrainian dumplings. Unlike pelmeni, dumplings are not filled with raw, but ready-made filling, so only the dough needs to be cooked during cooking. For dumplings with meat filling, it is pre-boiled or fried. So, the dish from Turkey, which there was called dyush-var, or dyush-varu, fell in love with Ukrainians and received a new name “varanyky“, which was lat