Wareniki

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Ukrainian vareniki with meat filling and smetana
Ukrainian vareniki filled with sour cherries for dessert

Vareniki ( Russian / Ukrainian вареники ; singular Varenik вареник ) is a dish of Slavic cuisine that is common throughout the territory of the former Soviet Union . It is traditionally associated with Ukrainian cuisine and is considered a national dish in Ukraine. It consists of filled, crescent-shaped dumplings that are cooked in salt water or (in some regions) on steam.

Wareniki are almost identical to some types of Polish pierogi . In some western Ukrainian areas the two names, Warenyky and Pyrohy , are used for the same dish. One of the most widespread types of pierogi in Poland, Pierogi ruskie (Russian pierogi ), refers in its name to the former eastern Polish and today's western Ukrainian areas. In the rest of Ukraine, similar to Russia, the terms pyrohy and pyrischki are used for cakes and baked dumplings but not for pasta dishes.

Compared to the pelmeni, which are also common in Eastern Europe, vareniki are usually larger and have a much wider selection of traditional fillings. In contrast to pelmeni, only pre-cooked meat is usually used for a meat filling, which is due to the size of the vareniki and the generally short cooking time of such dumplings.

preparation

The dough for Wareniki is made from wheat flour , water, salt and egg. Sometimes milk, whey or kefir are also used. Similar to Chinese dumplings (jasse), the dough is rolled out flat in a round shape and possibly cut into squares. The filling is placed in this and then they are folded.

There are many different fillings for vareniki known: mashed potatoes, cooked white cabbage or sauerkraut, cream cheese (quark), mushrooms, meat and others. Fruit or berries are used as sweet fillings.

Wareniki are traditionally eaten with butter and sour cream ( Smetana ), but also with honey or jam ( Warenje ). The hearty variant is fried pork belly ( Schkwarki ) with onions.

Warenik monument in the Ukrainian village of Synky

symbolism

In the story by Nikolaj Gogol The Night Before Christmas from the Evenings in the Hamlet near Dikanka collection , Wareniki jumped out of the bowl by magic, dipped them into the sour cream and flown into the mouth of the witch master Patzjuk Schmerbauch. As a result of this scene, vareniki jumping into the mouth have become a symbol of gluttony and laziness in the Russian and Ukrainian-speaking regions.

In Ukrainian literature, vareniki appear as a symbol of national identity. In Stepan Rudanskyj's poem Vareniki-Vareniki (1858) , a Russian soldier asks a Ukrainian farmer to cook Vareniki for him. He can't remember the word Wareniki while the woman pretends not to understand him.

literature

  • WW Pochljobkin: National cuisines. The culinary art of the Soviet peoples. Moscow / Leipzig 1984, pp. 77-78.

Web links

Commons : Wareniki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dmitry V. Kanshin, Dmitri Iwanowitsch Mendelejew : Wareniki . In: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона - Enziklopeditscheski slowar Brokgausa i Jefrona . tape 5 a [10]: Вальтер – Венути. Brockhaus-Efron, Saint Petersburg 1892, p. 519 (Russian, full text [ Wikisource ] PDF - The court is referred to as малороссийский , Little Russian . The area of ​​today's Ukraine was called Малороссия Malorossija ( Little Russia ) at that time).
  2. ↑ a b c Вареники . In: Українські страви . Державне видавництво технiчної лiтератури УРСР, Київ, 1960 ( Vareniki . In: Ukrainian Courts . State Publishing House for Technical Literature of the USSR , Kiev, 1960; Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b c d Вареники . In: Л. М. Безусенко (ред.): Українська нацiональна кухня. Сталкер, 2002, ISBN 966-596-462-3 ( Wareniki . In: L. M. Besussenko (ed.): Ukrainian national cuisine . Stalker-Verlag, 2002; Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b c Вареники . In В. В. Похлёбкин, Кулинарный словарь от А до Я . Центрполиграф, 2000, ISBN 5-227-00460-9 ( Wareniki . In: W. W. Pokhlyobkin, Kitchen Dictionary . Zentrpoligraf, 2000; Russian)
  5. ↑ urbandictionary.com de.pons.com
  6. ↑ Степан Васильович Руданський, Вареники-вареники ( memento of October 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). 1-я публикация в еженедельнике Русский мир , № 21, с. 504 (Stepan Rudanskyj. Wareniki-Wareniki . 1st edition in the weekly Russian World , 21, p. 504, 1859; Ukrainian)