Vareniks with cherry

Vareniks with cherry

Today I'll tell you great summer recipe - envelopes with cherry. Or we call it in Russia as varenik with cherry. This dish is very bright and savoury so you can surprise your children and get them into a good mood (if you need, of course).
We make a dough from: 3 cups flour, ¾ cup cold water, ½ tsp. salt, 2 eggs;
For filling: 700g cherry (you can take frozen cherry, of course, unfreeze it before cooking), 200g sugar.

Step 1: remove pits from cherries for filling and cover it with sugar. Leave it for some time;


Step 2: Make very cold water for our dough;
Step 3: Combine flour, salt, whipped eggs and cold water. Knead the dough till it'll not stick to hands. Cover the dough a damp napkin and leave for 30 minutes.
Step 4: Roll out the dough in a sheet thickness about 3 mm (not less because cherry filling is rather juicy so the dough can tear easily). Cut circles out dough sheets by mug in diameter not less than 6 sm.


Step 5: In a centre of every circle put one teaspoon of filling. Don't put too much filling, because it will prevent connection of edges.


Step 6: Connect edges as plait or press them by folk. If you'll make edges as a plait, make them thinner than centre because thick edges can be half-done and will not tasty.


Step 7: Boil water, add salt at taste, drop there vareniks. Cook about 8 minutes. As soon as they will emerge, catch vareniks and serve up a table with sour-cream.

Note: You can make different fillings. For example, mash potato and onion, curd, other berries, potatoe and mushrooms, cabbage and so on.