【词根词源】身在美食界的搞笑波兰饺子 Pierogi.

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　　Pierogi (Polish pronunciation) are dumplings of unleavened dough一first boiled, then they are baked or fried usually in butter with onions一traditionally stuffed with potato filling, sauerkraut, ground meat,cheese, or fruit. Of central and eastern European provenance, they are usually semicircular, but are rectangular or triangular in some cuisines.

　　Pierogi are small enough to be served several or many at a time,so the plural form of the word is usually used when rerring to this dish. In Polish pierogi is actually the plural, pierbg being singular.In Czech and Slovak pirohy is also the plural, piroh is singular. In Germany, this type of dumpling is called Pirogge in the singular and Piroggen in the plural,although sometimes the Polish name Pierogi is simply used.

　　Pierogi or vareniki may be stuffed (singularly or in various

　　combinations) with mashed potatoes, cheese,cabbage, sauerkraut, meat, mushrooms, spinach, or other ingredients depending on the cook&aposs personal prerences. Dessert versions of the dumpling can be stuffed with a fresh fruit filling, such as cherry,strawberry, saskatoon berry, raspberry, blueberry,peach, plum, or apple; stoned prunes are sometimes used as well as jam or sweetened curd. For more flavor, sour cream can be added to the dough mixture,and this also tends to lighten the dough.

　　Mashed potatoes mixed with farmer&aposs cheese and fried onion is a popular filling in Poland. A popular filling for pierogi in Canada is mashed potatoes mixed with grated Cheddar cheese. Jewish Kreplach are filled with ground meat, mashed potato or another filling, usually boiled and served in chicken soup.They are similar to Italian tortellini and Chinese wontons.

　　Pierogi are popular among the peoples of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The West Slavic Poles, Czechs, and Slova七，as well as the East Slavic Belarusians, Russians, Ukrainians and Rusyns,and the Baltic Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians all consume this dish, although under different names.

　　Pierogi(波兰语发音)是死面饺子—做法是先将其煮熟，然后和洋葱一起在黄油里煎或者烘烤—一般用土豆、酸菜、碎肉、奶酪或水果做馅儿。在中欧和东欧，他们通常是半圆形的，但是也有一些人将其做成长方形或三角形。

　　正因为pieragi很小，人们一次可以吃几个或者很多个，所以这个词的复数形式通常指的是碟子的数目。在波兰语中pierogi中实际上是复数，pier6g是单数。在捷克和斯洛伐克pirohy也是复数中，piroh是单数。在德国，这种类型的饺子的单数被称为piragge，而复数被称为piroggen，不过人们有时就简单地使用其波兰语的名字pieragi。Pierogi或vareniki有可能依据厨师的个人偏好被填入(单独的或不同类型的组合)土豆泥、奶酪、白菜、酸菜、肉、蘑菇、菠菜或其他作料。如果想把这种饺子做成甜品可以用新鲜水果作馅儿.如樱桃、草每、萨斯卡通落、树每、蓝萄、桃子、李子或苹果，有时也会用去核儿的西梅以及果酱或炼乳。为了更有味道，厨师将酸奶油加人面团中混合，这种情况下一般将面团做得轻一点儿。

　　波兰人很喜欢土豆泥与农民做的奶酪和炸洋葱的混合馅儿。在加拿大流行一种土豆泥混合碎切达奶酪的馅儿。狄太人的Kreplach三角馄饨馅儿由绞肉、土豆泥或另一种馅儿组成，通常煮熟并放入鸡汤里。它们和意大利式饺子与中国的馄饨相似。

　　Pierogi在前波兰一立陶宛联邦的人民中很受欢迎。虽然这个菜有不同的名称(例如，在白俄罗斯叫kalduny，在爱沙尼亚叫pirukad，拉脱维亚叫piragi，在立陶宛叫koldunai，在乌克兰叫varenyky)。西斯拉夫波兰人、捷克人、斯洛伐克人、以及东斯拉夫白俄罗斯人、俄罗斯人、乌克兰人和卢森尼亚人、波罗的海的爱沙尼亚人、拉脱维亚人和立陶宛人都吃这个菜。