Dumplings - a dish that has no equal in the number and variety of fillings!
They are sweet and salty, with vegetables, berries, fruits.
Sometimes they add lard, meat and even sausages.
They can be served for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
But how much and how to cook dumplings with different fillings?
How to cook dumplings - general principles of cooking
It is important to boil the products, but so that they do not tear apart and retain their shape. Very often, housewives watch a mash made of pieces of dough and a floating filling in a pan. Why it happens? You can sin on poor-quality connection edges. But in fact, the reasons most often others.
Five basic rules in cooking dumplings:
1. Dumplings are always cooked in large quantities of liquid. They must float freely, then they will not stick together and will not sink to the bottom of the pan.
2. Bring the dumplings to a boil should be at maximum fire, so that they do not have time to limp.
3. But you need to cook products with a moderate boil. You can not reduce the fire to a minimum and give the dish sour, limp in broth.
4. Water for boiling dumplings is always salted, even if they are filled with sweet, for example, with berries.
5. Ready-made dumplings are always oiled. You can not lubricate only products with berries or fruit fillings. But in this case, they are laid out in one layer and sprinkled with sugar.
You also need to know that frozen dumplings do not need to be thawed before cooking. They are poured immediately into boiling water and there they depart. Products from the freezer are boiled for 2-3 minutes longer than the ones that have just been made. Here it is very important not to feel sorry for the water, so that they boil as fast as possible and not stick together, as the dough becomes more sticky after thawing.
How to cook dumplings with potatoes (mashed potatoes)
Dumplings with mashed potatoes is one of the most delicious dishes that you can make your family happy. They are easy to prepare, they require the most primitive products. But, how and how much to cook the dumplings with potatoes? Ingredients
• 200 ml of water;
• about 600 g of flour;
• 1 egg;
• salt;
• 800 grams of potatoes;
• 2 bulbs;
• 50 ml of oil.
Cooking
1. Shake the egg with water, salt and add the flour. We make a cool ball of dough, knead need to carefully. Then put it in the bag and give it a rest.
2. From the peeled potatoes we prepare ordinary puree of medium consistency.
3. Cut the peeled onion heads into cubes, send in mashed potatoes, stir. Add spices.
4. We get the dough. Divide into two lumps. Each one by one we roll into the reservoir, cut out circles with a glass, put the stuffing and form dumplings. But you can blind them in any other way, for example, as in the recipe below.
5. Put a pan with water on the stove, the liquid should be about 2/3 of the volume and for every 250 grams of dumplings at least a liter.
6. Give water to boil, salt and lower our products. Cook 2 minutes after boiling. We take out with a skimmer, we lubricate with oil, you can add fried onions.
How to cook dumplings with raw potatoes
Dumplings with raw potatoes are more capricious than with mashed potatoes. But for many, they are much more delicious. So how are such dumplings made with potatoes and how much are they cooked?
Ingredients
• 2.5 cups of flour;
• a glass of water or milk;
• 1 egg;
• spices;
• 5 potatoes;
• 1 onion;
• 100 grams of raw or salted lard;
• flour.
Cooking
1. In a glass of liquid we dilute a pinch of salt, break an egg into it, add flour and knead firm, stiff dough. We give for half an hour.
2. Peel the vegetables for the filling. Cut into small cubes potatoes with onions.
3. Grind lard and add to vegetables. To make it easier to cut, you can slightly freeze. But you can just scroll through the blender.
4. Mince salt, pepper. You can put in it and greens.
5. We get the dough. Cut in half, and then again in half lengthwise. We roll each sausage into an even flagellum. We cut across on washers on 1-1,5 centimeters. Then we dip each thing into flour and roll out the cake from it. Sculpt dumplings. 6. Dip the product in boiling and salted water, cook for 10-12 minutes after boiling.
7. Remove from the pan, lubricate with oil.
How much to cook dumplings with cottage cheese
Dumplings with cottage cheese are different. In some families, the stuffing is prepared salty, in other houses they love sweet more. Often greens, garlic or raisins, vanilla, and berries are added to the curd. Use any dough, you can knead it according to one of the recipes above. But how to make and cook dumplings with cottage cheese?
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of dough;
• 0.3 kg of cottage cheese;
• 1 egg;
• salt.
For sweet stuffing, instead of salt, add sugar, vanilla, you can a little raisins.
Cooking
1. To make the filling tender, the curd must be ground. If it is not dry, then you can just knead well with a fork.
2. Add the raw egg and salt. Or egg and sugar. You can put a little green in the salty stuffing.
3. We take out the dough, roll out the lozenges, form the dumplings.
4. Put a saucepan on the stove with water, salt and let it boil.
5. We lower the prepared products, we do the maximum fire and we allow to boil. Then we reduce the fire, but not to a minimum. Boil should be.
6. How many dumplings are cooked with cottage cheese? It is believed that they are ready after the ascent, that is, complete boiling. But it is better to boil them for half a minute.
How much to cook vareniki with cabbage
Dumplings with cabbage are less popular than with potatoes. But they are no less tasty. You can use fresh cabbage or sauerkraut. Prepare them from an unusual test on sour cream. How to cook such dumplings and how much time?
Ingredients
• 0.5 glasses of water;
• 3 tablespoons sour cream;
• salt and a pinch of soda;
• flour.
For the filling:
• a pound of cabbage;
• butter;
• bow;
• a little tomato;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Combine sour cream with a pinch of soda, add salt and water. Pour the flour, mix thoroughly and make a cool dough ball.
2. Cut the onion, fry until transparent in a skillet with butter. Add the shredded cabbage, fry together, salt and add a spoonful of tomato for taste. Cooling filling. 3. We take out our dough and form the usual medium-sized dumplings.
4. Boil water, do not forget to salt.
5. Start the dumplings, give them a good boil and ready! Take out, grease with butter and can be put on the table.
How many boil dumplings with cherries
Cherries are the favorite and most popular filling in dumplings. Well, what a summer can be without this wonderful dish! How and how much boil dumplings with cherries?
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg unleavened dough;
• 0.5 kg of cherries;
• sugar;
• sour cream;
• salt.
Cooking
1. Remove the bones from the cherries, you can immediately put the berries in a colander on the cup, let the excess juice flow down.
2. We get the dough, cooked according to any recipe. Roll out cakes. Dumplings with berries are prepared slightly larger than with other fillings. Approximately a third.
3. Put in each dumpling berries, about 4-6 stuff, sprinkle with sugar on top and connect the edges. Sugar put on your taste and taking into account the acid cherries.
4. Put a saucepan on the stove with water, salt a little and bring to a boil.
5. Run the dumplings. With the berry cooked in small batches as cooking. It is not necessary for the cobbled products to stand on the table, since under the influence of sugar an active release of juices begins.
6. How many boiled dumplings with cherries? Many simply let them float up and consider them ready. But it is better to boil longer. We give the dumplings to boil well, boil for two minutes and immediately take out.
7. Lay out the dumplings in a single layer on a tray or flat dish and sprinkle with sugar on top. Served with sour cream, you can use cream, condensed milk. Or prepare the sauce by adding the juice from the cherries.
How to Steam Dumplings
Steaming dumplings is a great way to keep their shape. The taste of such products is also different. They are more saturated, because nothing goes into the water. For cooking, you can use a double boiler, mantovarku, colander, some housewives simply pull gauze on the pan or put a sieve.
Ingredients • vareniki;
• salt;
• butter.
Cooking
1. Lubricate pallets with oil.
2. Pour water into the container. It must be salted so that the soaring is more active. We put stew.
3. Put the dumplings on pallets so that they do not touch each other. They also need to ensure normal steam circulation.
4. How to cook dumplings? If they are with a berry, then 4-5 minutes is enough. Dumplings with cooked fillings and cottage cheese are cooked for the same amount of time. But for dumplings with raw potatoes need about 15 minutes.
5. We get vareniki, grease and ready!
Useful tips and tricks when cooking dumplings
• Dumplings with savory fillings will taste better if you add a little butter or ghee to the water. Also the following spices are welcome: peppercorns, bay leaves, greens. You can add other seasonings, but it is very important that the filling is combined with them.
• Left half-eaten dumplings? Just put them in the fridge. Products with savory fillings can be fried in a pan with butter. Sweet dumplings are tasty and cold. If the dumplings with potatoes, then you can cook wonderful dishes in the oven, adding mushrooms, vegetables, cheese and various sauces.
• Dumplings can be frozen not only raw, but also boiled. In any case, it is necessary to determine the products while they are fresh, and not when the dumplings have lain in the heat for several hours.
• Often you can find cooking recipes for dumplings in a slow cooker. But in fact, this process is so simple and fast that it does not make sense to download a helper. Save her strength for other dishes that really need attention.
