On Saturdays on the St. Paul Farmers’ Market, Obulhov additionally has a cell kitchen alongside her frozen pierogi and dumpling stand. This previous week, deep-fried potato-onion pierogies and hen dumplings have been featured.
Prior to now, we’ve tried the frozen take-home model of the potato-onion, boiling it for a pillowy end or pan-frying for crispness. Nonetheless, it might be difficult to copy the even, ultra-golden crisp and steamy center that outcomes when cooking it out of the cell kitchen’s massive fryers. Plus, the deep-fried goodies ($12, six items) are a good way to taste-test earlier than stocking up your freezer. (Nancy Ngo)
Frozen pierogies obtainable at space farmers markets together with New Brighton, Golden Valley, Edina, Maple Grove and St. Paul on choose days; cell kitchen featured Saturdays on the St. Paul Farmers’ Market, 290 fifth St. E., St. Paul, stpaulfarmersmarket.com. For the most recent updates, go to natashaspierogi.com
Egg rolls from Rainbow restaurant in Minneapolis. The egg rolls are additionally obtainable on the Minneapolis Farmers Market on weekends whereas provides final.
Now that farmers market season is in full swing, it additionally means another place to get Tammy Wong’s legendary egg rolls.
Wong had been serving the large rolls on the Minneapolis Farmers Market each Saturday and Sunday for the previous 12 years, and even longer at her iconic Rainbow Chinese language restaurant on Eat Avenue. Throughout Rainbow’s birthday bash block celebration this week (Comfortable thirty eighth!), Wong served biggest hits corresponding to hen wings, cream cheese wontons, purple curry noodles and he or she even resurrected her hen lemongrass meatballs (bear in mind these from her U.S. Financial institution Stadium stand and previous blissful hour menus?) for the event. And, after all, her well-known hen egg rolls represented and bought like hotcakes.
Wong has been making the identical egg roll recipe, utilizing floor hen as an alternative of pork alongside cabbage, carrots, onions and cellophane noodles, for the previous 30 years, rendering mild, fluffy, golden, crispy outcomes. “I began making it this fashion as a result of we had clients who didn’t eat pork” they usually’ve been serving it that method ever since, Wong mentioned.
