Filled Dumplings

Wrappers for Vareniki, Pelmeni, or Pierogi

Preparation info
  • Makes

    50

    or more wrappers
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      1 hr

Appears in
The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home

By Mark Bittman

Published 2005

  • About

Whether the noodle and wrappers made from its dough moved west from China or east from Italy is anyone’s guess, but it wound up everywhere. There is barely a square mile of turf between Mongolia and Hungary that doesn’t boast some kind of dumpling, and the variety is staggering. (And, if you consider the ravioli and empanada dumplings, they are universal.)

But though shape and filling vary wildly, the doughs are pretty much the same throughout the world: they’re made either with egg