Pierogi vs. Pie — What's the Difference?

Pierogi ( pih-ROH-ghee) are filled dumplings made by wrapping unleavened dough around a savoury or sweet filling and cooking in boiling water. They are often then pan-fried before serving.

A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients. Sweet pies may be filled with fruit (as in an apple pie), nuts (pecan pie), brown sugar (sugar pie), sweetened vegetables (rhubarb pie), or with thicker fillings based on eggs and dairy (as in custard pie and cream pie).

A semicircular dumpling with any of various fillings, such as finely chopped meat or vegetables, that is often sautéed after being boiled.

A dish composed of fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients baked over, under, or surrounded by a crust of pastry or other dough.

(North America) A square- or crescent-shaped dumpling of unleavened dough, stuffed with sauerkraut, cheese, mashed potatoes, cabbage, onion, meat, or any combination of these, or with a fruit filling.

A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling.

(Informal) A pizza.

Something similar to or resembling pie

A whole that can be portioned out

See magpie.

A former unit of currency of India.

An almanac of services used in the English church before the Reformation.

Variant of pi2.

A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.

Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.

(Northeastern US) A pizza.

A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.

(figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.

(letterpress) A disorderly mess of spilt type.

(cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.

A pie chart.

(slang) The vulva.

(obsolete) Magpie.

(historical) The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 192 of a rupee or 12 of an anna.

(zoology) pie-dog: an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts.

(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 27.9 cm.

(transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).

(transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.

(transitive) (of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.

An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.

A magpie.

The service book.

Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.

See Pi.

Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top

A prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages