What is just not being prepared now in a slow cooker designed for cooking simple, crumbly cereals. Pelmeski is a special case. It would seem that you can get along with old-fashioned technologies, and suddenly the student is uncomfortable to acquire a kitchen arsenal, or you went to the sea to live in a rented apartment. In any case, steaming pelmenk cooking option may also seem more convenient if you use a slow cooker instead of a saucepan.
Dumplings in a slow cooker - general principles of cooking
• Cooking dumplings in a slow cooker can be done in two ways: by steaming or in a cooking pot.
• Preparation of semi-finished products in a multicast pan is not much different from cooking in a conventional saucepan on the stove. Pelmeski can be cooked both homemade and purchased, frozen or just fashioned. Frozen semi-finished products, regardless of the preferred method of preparation, do not thaw in advance.
• The most difficult thing with steam cooking, if you prefer to cook the dumplings with spices. In this case, it is better to refuse bay leaf, as a rule, it only adds bitterness and not the best flavor. But almost all types of peppers are perfect.
• If the dish is originally meant to be spicy, you can put fresh paprika pods into the water without cutting them before cooking. Red is best. If you want to give the dish not only flavor, but sprinkle the spice with pepper or other seasonings on the dumplings themselves, about 5 minutes after the start of cooking, when they are already wet enough. It is desirable to reduce the number of seasonings by half compared to classic cooking.
• The versatility of the device allows you to diversify the usual dish of boiled dumplings. Using various programs, pelmeni in the slow cooker is prepared, even without the use of additional dishes, under various sauces and with vegetables. With dumplings in a slow cooker, the first and second courses are cooked.
How to cook dumplings in a multicooker for steaming
Ingredients:
• 300 gr. purchased meat dumplings; • 20 gr. butter, unsalted butter;
• one leaf of laurel.
Cooking Method:
1. Fill the crock-pot with one and a half liters of warm water in the cooking bowl. Lower your laurel.
2. Rub the steam container well with butter and place it in the multicooker housing. Put dumplings in one layer. You do not need to defrost them.
3. Lower the multicast cover and start the device on the “Steaming” option for 25 minutes.
4. Cooking time may vary and depends primarily on the thickness of the dough. If after 25 minutes the dough does not melt, increase the time by another quarter of an hour.
How to cook dumplings in a multi-cooker on water
Ingredients:
• half a kilo of frozen convenience foods;
• salt or seasoning “For vegetables”;
• several peppercorns;
• a small leaf of laurel;
• three spoons of homemade, or simply fat sour cream;
• A spoonful of homemade cream, or butter.
Cooking Method:
1. Pour filtered drinking water into the brewing bowl to the top mark.
2. Set the multicast timer for 20 minutes and activate the “Soup” mode. Be sure to close the lid, otherwise the water will boil for a long time.
3. In the boiling water, lower the lavrushka by removing the sample, salt or add vegetable seasoning. Wait for the re-boiling and immediately lower all the dumplings. Stir and leave to cook under the lid.
4. After 7 minutes, mix again and wait for the program to stop.
5. After the signal has been triggered, carefully remove the cooking vessel from the body and transfer its contents to a colander.
6. When all the broth goes well, put the dumplings in a deep bowl and season with cream or butter. Cover the pot with a lid, turn it upside down and shake it several times so that the melted butter envelops each pelmes.
7. Then arrange the dish in plates and place a spoonful of sour cream on each serving.
How to cook dumplings in a slow cooker on a vegetable cushion
Ingredients:
• frozen dumplings - 500 gr .;
• half of sweet pepper;
• one small carrot;
• medium sized tomato;
• onion head;
• Lavrushka - 2 leaves;
• clove of garlic;
• a small slice of hard cheese - 30 gr .; • two spoons of lean refined oil;
• seasoning “For vegetables”;
• a few sprigs of fresh dill.
Cooking Method:
1. Carrots and Bulgarian pepper, chop into thin straws, and onions - in small cubes.
2. Activate the “Baking” option on the multicooker and pour vegetable oil into the bowl. Vegetables dip into it, and, while stirring, cook for five minutes with the lid of the device open. Then add the diced tomato.
3. After five minutes, fill the vegetables with frozen dumplings. Put a pair of leaves of Lavrusha on top of them, salt or season with seasoning “For vegetables”.
4. Fill the bowl with water so that it completely covers all products.
5. Lower and lock the lid, cook in the previously activated mode for another half hour.
6. Spread the finished ravioli together with the vegetables into plates and sprinkle each portion with large cheese crumb mixed with chopped garlic.
How to cook dumplings in a slow cooker, in tomato-sour cream sauce
Ingredients:
• 700 gr. homemade or purchased dumplings (frozen);
• 50 gr. thick tomato juice;
• low fat sour cream - 50 gr .;
• one small carrot;
• 400 ml of drinking water;
• small onion;
• a small pinch of seasoning “Hmeli-suneli”.
Cooking Method:
1. Grind the onion and place it in the cooking bowl. Grate the carrot and send it to the onion.
2. Put frozen dumplings on top of the vegetables.
3. Combine sour cream with tomato juice, add hops-suneli and mix well. Dilute with water and salt.
4. Fill the dumplings with cooked sauce and cook for one hour on the Quenching program.
5. After the end of the activated mode, leave the dumplings in the bowl for another seven minutes.
How to cook pelmeni in a slow cooker with dried mushrooms in cream sauce
Ingredients:
• 200 gr. any dried mushrooms;
• 400 gr. frozen convenience foods;
• sour cream 20% - 200 gr .;
• 200 ml of pasteurized milk;
• refined oil;
• fresh greens;
• small onion head.
Cooking Method:
1. Wash the mushrooms with warm water and then fill with milk. 2. Slices, trying not to close up, chop the onion.
3. Pour about 50 ml of oil into the bowl of the multicastry and turn on the device on the Baking program.
4. After three minutes, dip frozen semi-finished products in hot oil and fry them for 10 minutes. Time may be required and less, most importantly, to achieve a golden color.
5. Transfer the onions to the dumplings, mix and turn off the frying mode.
6. Drain the milk from the mushrooms and add sour cream. Salt a little, pour half a glass of drinking water and mix well.
7. Squeeze the soaked mushrooms lightly, squeeze, cut into small strips and transfer to the bowl.
8. Pour all the cream sauce and mix. Select and activate the Quenching mode for a duration of 20 minutes.
9. When serving cooked in a multicooker dumplings with mushrooms, sprinkle with finely chopped greens.
How to cook dumplings in a slow cooker: an unusual recipe with noodles
Ingredients:
• 250 gr. dumplings, frozen;
• 100 grams of fine noodles;
• one small carrot;
• one red tomato;
• bitter onion head;
• one leaf of laurel;
• two teaspoons of salt;
• dill;
• non-aromatic sunflower oil - 50 ml.
Cooking Method:
1. Cut the onion into small-sized slices, and the tomato into slices. Rub a carrot on a large grater.
2. Pour oil into the cooking vessel and heat it for three minutes on the “Roast”.
3. Put dumplings in the bowl, you do not need to defrost them. Add onions and carrots and fry everything together. To prevent semi-finished products from sticking together, occasionally stir the contents of the bowl.
4. When the vegetables are soft and the dumplings are thawed, transfer the current mode to “Soup” and pour water into the bowl, up to the maximum mark. Salt, lower the lavrushka and close the lid.
5. After 40 minutes, pour the dry noodles. Stir, add finely chopped dill and leave in the multicooker off under the lid for a quarter of an hour.
How to cook dumplings in a slow cooker: a recipe for vegetable dumplings soup
Ingredients:
• Bulgarian pepper pod - 1 pc .;
• half of the average carrot;
• onions - a small head;
• refined vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l .; • 200 gr. frozen convenience foods;
• fresh parsley - 2-3 sprigs.
Cooking Method:
1. Carrot and pepper shred small, thin straws. Cut the onion into small pieces.
2. On the “Baking” option in vegetable oil, first fry the carrot and onion. Once they are soft and golden in color, add the pepper and continue to fry until softened.
3. Then put the semi-finished products in the bowl frozen. Pour in one liter of cold filtered water and salt.
4. Set the multicast system to “Extinguish” mode, and set the timer to one hour. Turn on.
5. After completing and stopping the program, add finely chopped parsley to the soup and leave it in the “Heating” state for 10 minutes. The appliance lid must be closed.
Dumplings in a slow cooker - cooking tricks and helpful tips
• When boiling the dumplings with steam, it is mandatory to lubricate the steam container with butter and spread semi-finished products, retreating by the thickness of the little finger, from each other. This will help prevent the dough from sticking to the steam tank and sticking the dumplings together.
• Even if the dumplings will be cooked in a slow cooker in the usual “cooking” way, be careful to dip them into boiling water! The fact is that regardless of the coating of the cooking bowl, the dough loves to stick to it. It is very easy to spoil an expensive device, but in order to avoid this, it’s enough to just stir the water with a wooden or plastic spatula when laying semi-finished products.
• To ensure that steam dumplings are not dry, grease them before boiling with melted butter.
• Steam pelmenki will cook faster if hot water is poured into the bowl, not cold water.
• Throw thin noodles only after cooking dumplings, and do not cook. It will reach readiness and with the device turned off.
