Pierogies With Cabbage and Bacon
Pierogies with cabbage, onions and crispy bacon made on the stove top. This is a quick and easy homemade meal!
Servings 4
Ingredients
- 4 slices bacon approximately 1/4 pound, chopped
- 1/2 small head cabbage chopped
- 1 onion sliced thin
- 2 tomatoes chopped (optional, read notes!)
- 2 teaspoons white wine vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon white sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- dash black pepper
- 1 (16 ounce package) frozen pierogies
- fresh chives chopped up (optional)
Instructions
- In a large skillet, cook bacon until browned and crispy. Remove the bacon from the skillet and set aside, but keep the drippings in the skillet.
- Add cabbage and onion to drippings in the skillet, cover with lid and cook on medium heat for 10 minutes, until vegetables are softened.
- Remove the lid and add in tomatoes, vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper and bacon to the skillet, and cook for 5 more minutes, stirring often.
- Cook pierogies according to the package and drain. Add pierogies into the skillet with cabbage ingredients, stir, and serve! Optional: I like to add chopped fresh chives on top to give it a little color on top! Hope you enjoy!
Notes
Do I need to add tomatoes? No, if you don't want to, don't add tomatoes. 50% of the time I add tomatoes, the other 50% of the time I don't add tomatoes (like the pictures for this post!). The tomatoes add a nice sweetness to the cabbage and onions that we really love, and if it's garden season there's definitely tomatoes going in, but they're not absolutely needed if you don't want.