Soup with dumplings is a long-forgotten recipe against the background of modern first courses: borscht, pickles, etc., but it is not inferior to them in taste, and in terms of economy it even surpasses, because it consists of ordinary products There will be at each house and they will not even need to be additionally purchased!
Dumplings can be cooked literally in each soup, but it is better not to overload complex first courses with them, but add them to vegetable soups and meat broths, where they will best reveal their mouth-watering taste. And so that the dumplings do not turn out to be fresh - add salt and spices to them!
To make 4 servings of dumplings soup you will need:
- 1/2 head of cabbage;
- 1 chicken egg;
- 4 potatoes;
- 1 onion;
- 1 bunch of spinach;
- 1 tbsp. wheat flour;
- 0.5 tsp. salts;
- 0.5 tsp. seasonings;
- 2-3 bay leaves for fragrance;
- 20 ml of vegetable oil.
To make your vegetable soup rich and appetizing, pre-fry the onions in vegetable oil. To do this, clean the onion head from the husk and rinse it in water, and then chop into cubes. In a skillet or pan with a non-stick bottom, heat the vegetable oil and add the onion to it. Pass to softness for 3-5 minutes, depending on the size of the cut.
Peel the potato tubers and rinse in water. Cut into large cubes and add to the fried onions. Let the crust on potato cubes grab for 2 minutes during roasting, and then pour in hot water. The amount of water depends on your taste, pouring a larger amount - get a thin soup, less - more thick. However, do not forget that there will still be dumplings in your first course - they will take up half a saucepan or pan.
Then chop the half of the cabbage and add it to the boiling water.
Do the same with spinach. Washed spinach bunch cut into strips, throwing tails, and place in a saucepan.
Beat the chicken egg with a whisk, salt it and add seasonings of your choice. Add wheat flour and knead the dough, like on pancakes. It should be thickish, but not cool.
Reduce the heat on the stove to the minimum and, using a teaspoon, spread the dough into boiling soup in portions, taking care not to touch one another. The fire must be reduced, since boiling liquid will not allow the dough to grab outside and divide it into parts, and you will end up with a film of dough on the surface of the soup.
Having laid out all the dough in this way, salt the soup and add a few bay leaves. Cover and simmer for about 2 minutes. During this time, the dumplings will grow about twice in size.
Pour the soup into deep plates and serve with mayonnaise or sour cream, do not forget to sprinkle with chopped green onions. Enjoy your meal!
Since you have already seen that cooking dumplings is not a difficult and expeditious matter, you should also consider the actual cost of the prepared first dish!
For 4 servings you spent:
- 1/2 cabbage - 8 rubles;
- 1 chicken egg - 3 rub .;
- 4 potatoes - 8 rub .;
- 1 onion - 2 rubles .;
- 1 bunch of spinach - 10 rubles;
- 20 ml of vegetable oil -5 rubles.
Total: the cost of a whole capacity of an appetizing soup with dumplings is 36 rubles. And 1 portion of the first will cost only 9 rubles and you will not need to buy bakery products for it, because dumplings are already present in the hot vegetable broth! You see, how you can feed your family sparingly and tasty - cook with us, and we will tell you about budget meals for holidays and weekdays!
