Hi! I'm Sharla with Freezer Meals 101. Today I'm going to be showing you how I make pierogies
in the crock pot. This is a recipe that my sister-in-law showed me and although it's not
technically a freezer meal, I'm gonna stretch it and say that since the pierogies came from the
freezer, that this is a freezer meal but really it's just a... you know crock-pot meal. Anyway,
I think you guys are gonna enjoy this recipe. It is definitely, definitely one of our family's
favourites. If you're looking for easy family ideas that can be made ahead and save you time
and money, be sure to subscribe. So I have bags of pierogies from Costco. We buy them in the box so
it's kind of a giant amount of perogies, but when you have a large family, this is the way to do it.
So you're gonna start by doing one layer of pierogies in the bottom of your crock pot.
Sometimes I use a crock pot liner for this because it does tend to stick to the sides and makes it
a little bit hard to clean so this is one of the recipes that I'll often use a crock pot liner for
but today, I've already started layering before I thought of it, so here we go. We're going to do
it like this. This will probably actually give you a better view of what I do anyway. So you
can use any pierogies any flavour, any filling that you want. These are just the Costco box
and I find that because of our size family, this works well because I can use multiple bags.
If you have a smaller family, then go ahead and just do less layers and only use one bag.
So after your layer of perogies just gonna add some pepper and a layer of finely minced onion.
The key to this recipe actually is the onion. You really want a lot of onion in there and then you
want to do some fresh dill. I have that awesome herb garden and so I can grow my own dill which
is amazing and just so fresh so I always have dill at the ready especially actually for this recipe.
So I've added some fresh dill and then our secret ingredient: the whipping cream.
So this is 33% milk fat in case um because depending on where you live sometimes this is
called heavy cream sometimes it's called whipping cream so where I live, it is called whipping cream
and we're just gonna add a layer of that. I did not promise this that this recipe was
calorie friendly... I only promised that it was delicious! And now you're going to go ahead and
do another layer of pierogies and you're going to continue to layer things in exactly this way
the same as that first layer until you get as many layers as you need to feed your family/
When my sister-in-law Stephanie first showed me how to do this... actually she brought this to
Christmas at our house one year, I was amazed and this has kind of been how we've made pierogies
ever since. It's tough because now if I make them the regular way, the kids
are like "oh why don't I have the cream sauce this time?" so anyway So you're gonna cook this
on low for a couple of hours or on high for like an hour. It depends on your crock pot really
but um just when they're done. You don't want them to be overdone because then they get mushy but you
just cook them until the perogies are done which really doesn't take long on high. It's like yeah
kind of thinking an hour but I'll update you because today I'm cooking them on high
because it is already four o'clock so I want this to be ready for supper and
I think if I put it on high that it should be ready by like 5:30. I'll let you know!
So it's been an hour and 45 minutes and I think probably two hours would have been better
honestly, so if you're gonna have it on high two hours let's say um low, I would say like three
hours, three and a half hours. Anyway um and the ones on the top
are done and the ones in the middle seem to be mostly done but yeah, like I said, I would
I'd let it go to two hours but here we go we've got our pierogies and
cream sauce done in the crock pot. Thanks so much for joining me today and happy cooking!