Lazy Man Pierogies
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Recipe type: fattening
Cuisine: Polish American
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Serves: 10
 
Real homemade pierogies are a LOT of work! Use this shortcut recipe to make "Lazy Man" pierogies which are not only easier, but taste just like pierogies!
Ingredients
  • 1lb of lasagne (I still do this with the lasagne you boil, have never tried the no-boil kind)
  • 5lbs of potatoes
  • 1lb Velveeta (I use cheddar, or substitute 8 oz of sour cream, so it's 8 oz cheese, 8 oz sour cream, not a fan of Velveeta)
  • 2 med onions, diced (my parents love onions, I use like half of one small onion, I don't like mine as oniony as they do, blech. Or I use green onions.)
  • 4-5 sticks of margarine (seriously? No wonder my dad is on Lipitor. I use one, and I use butter, not margarine.)
Instructions
  1. Sautee onions in margarine.( Now there's a picture--2 onions sizzling away in 5 sticks of margarine. Blech. ) Peel, cut and boil potatoes for mashed potatoes. Make mashed potatoes (it is best to peel the potatoes, don't short cut here and do them with skins on) and mix in the cheese. I sautee my little half onion in a half stick of butter, and I put the other half a stick in my mashed potatoes. Do not use milk when you mash your potatoes, or use very little. (This is why I sometimes use sour cream.) Cook and drain your lasagne noodles.
  2. Layer and bake at 350 for 30 minutes.
  3. Basically, you're making a 'lasagne' but you're using your potato mixture as your filling.
  4. Only my parents do their layers this way--noodles, potatoes, onion/margarine mixture.
  5. I do mine very similar, but I mix some onions in with the mashed potatoes, and then do a small layer.
  6. Their's is a bit too oniony and greasy for me.
  7. Use chives, salt, pepper to taste.
  8. Try to end your layers so that you can do a bit of melted butter on top to prevent drying out.
Notes
It can be made ahead of time, just if you do that and refrigerate (up to 3 days) you'll have to increase your baking time a bit, as your stuff will be super cold from the fridge. My parents have made it and frozen it with success, I've never tried. I don't have success freezing potato items.
Recipe by Smart Spending Spot at https://smartspendingspot.com/recipe-lazy-man-pierogies-tastes-like-pierogies-without-all-the-work/