Tex Mex Baked Pierogies Recipes

BACON PIEROGI BAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Arrange the pierogies in a lightly greased, 9x9 inch baking dish.
• In a medium skillet, cook the bacon until crispy. Remove to a paper towel lined plate.
• Add garlic to drippings in pan and cook for 30 seconds. Add cream cheese to pan and cook until cream cheese begins to melt, stirring frequently.
• Gradually whisk in the chicken broth until smooth. Season sauce with salt and pepper to taste.
• Pour the cream cheese mixture evenly over pierogies. Bake for 15 minutes or until bubbly and heated through.
• Remove from oven and top with cheese. Bake for an additional 5 minutes or until cheese is melted.
• Top with cooked bacon, green onions and tomato before serving.

TEX-MEX PIEROGIES

Steps:

• First make the dough:.
• In a food processor, pulse the flower and salt together to break up any lumps there may be.
• Add in the beaten egg and pulse 2 or 3 times.
• Add the sour cream and butter and pulse until it looks like wet sand (about 5 or 6 times). It is important not to over mix into a lumpy ball.
• Pour the sand on to your working counter or plate and bring it together into the shape of a ball. Try to handle it as little as possible.
• Wrap it in plastic wrap and put it in the fridge while you make your filling. (20 min or more).
• Filling:.
• Place your ground turkey into a HOT pan. Try to get most of the surface area covered. Let sit for a minute to brown and then start breaking apart the meat.
• Add the chopped onions and stir. Sprinkle in the salt, paprika, cumin, and cayenne.
• Once the onions have softened add the corn and chipotle peppers and stir.
• Add the garlic and stir until fragrant. (about 1 minute).
• Add the Adobo Sauce and stir.
• Add 1/4 cup of the chicken stock and stir until almost all the liquid has been absorbed.
• Add 1/4 cup of the chicken stock again. Stir until almost all the liquid has been absorbed.
• Now add the rest (1/2 cup) of the chicken stock and stir until most of the liquid has cooked out and you're left with a thick "taco" filling.
• Remove from pan and let cool.
• In a separate bowl, mix the Simply Potatoes Mashed Potatoes and the cheese together. Set aside.
• Assemble:.
• Take the dough out. You can use a rolling pin, but I didn't own one so I used a plate. Make 1" balls out of the dough and dust with flower. Roll or flatten them out to make about 3-4 inch rounds.
• In the middle of the round, put a spoon full of your potato mixture followed by a spoonful of your taco filling.
• Fold in half. A good trick is to gently shake up and down by the edges of the dough (like shaking water out of pasta in a colander) and press together at the top. Otherwise this could get super messy. make sure the edges are sealed tightly. You could use an egg wash here, but plain water worked fine for us.
• Lay on a sheet pan that has been dusted with flour.
• In a pot of boiling and salted water, drop 6-8 Pirogies at a time. cook for 8-10 minutes. They should be floating at the top when they are done.
• Pull them out and let cool slightly.
• Brush with melted butter on one side.
• In a hot skillet, put pirogies butter side down to crisp up.
• Butter the tops (since we only buttered one side).
• Flip when brown and crisp up the other side.
• For the Dipping Sauce.
• In a bowl, mix up the sour cream, chopped green onion, and taco seasoning. THAT'S IT!
• Serve on a platter with dipping sauce and sprinkle with more green onion for garnish. GREAT party food. Filling enough to be a meal.

SAUSAGE AND PIEROGI CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Place frozen pierogis in one layer at the bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish.
• Heat oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Add onion, pepper and mushrooms to the pan and saute. Place vegetables over frozen pierogies.
• Using the same frying pan, cook sausages that have been removed from their casings, breaking them down while cooking. Layer sausage in casserole dish.
• Measure out milk into a measuring cup. Add the can of mushroom soup to the milk and whisk to combine. spread over top of the casserole ingredients. Top with cheddar cheese.
• Bake in preheated oven for 35 minutes. Leftovers will keep for 3 days.

OUR TRADITIONAL PIEROGIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Lightly grease one large or two small baking dishes.
• Boil the pierogies in batches until mostly cooked but not completely cooked.
• Place one layer in the baking dish with half the onions and dot with 3 tbsps. marg. or butter.
• Repeat layers, sprinkling with salt and pepper.
• Fill the baking dish not quite to the top with the whipping cream and place on a baking sheet as this helps prevent leaking onto the bottom of the oven.
• Cover and bake for 30 to 45 minutes or until pierogies are fork tender.

SPICY BAKED PIEROGIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400*.
• Grease a 9 x 13 cookie sheet.
• Mix the first 3 ingredients well, add the frozen Pierogies and toss to evenly coat.
• Place the all Pierogies in single layer on baking sheet, (All facing up the same direction, makes it easier to know which ones you flipped after the first 10 minutes cooking).
• -Bake 20 minutes, flipping over half way through.
• Serve immediately with a side of sour cream for dipping.