Dumplings in pots - general principles and methods of cooking
Banal dumplings can be cooked so that you will lick your fingers. Add color to the taste of familiar and already bored dumplings with ceramic pots! It’s a simple yet elegant way to surprise guests or pamper your family. If you do not use store options, leave a little personally prepared semi-finished products in the freezer to wait in the wings, and this time will surely come. And how beautiful it looks! It is always nice to serve this surprise to the table - delicious and incredibly beautiful pots.
Dumplings in pots - food preparation
Cooking in pots is pleasant and easy - fold the ingredients in portions and bake. Time for this procedure requires quite a bit - boil dumplings and cook auxiliary components. It can be cheese, vegetables, greens (for example, green onions), mushrooms and much more. Dumplings are obtained in an appetizing sauce, nothing needs to be added to them, except a light salad. Boil or fry them until half ready is not a problem, then you need to decompose them into pots and cook an additive. Remember that the food in the pots can burn, so be sure to have a sauce, a small baking temperature and a limited time.
Potted dumplings - the best recipes
Recipe 1: Dumplings in pots with onions and mushrooms
Make fresh dumplings or use frozen ones - it doesn't matter. In some cases, frozen dumplings can not even defrost. In this recipe, the product calculation is made for 4 servings. If the pots are large in size, put everything in two.
Ingredients: dumplings (500 grams, small in size), onion, mushrooms (200 grams), sour cream (200 grams), mayonnaise (100 grams), salt and pepper.
Ingredients for ravioli: flour (300 grams), minced pork and beef with onions (300 grams), water or milk (100 grams), egg (1 piece), salt.
Method of preparation
Dumplings: Sift the flour and make a well in it. Beat the egg and stir, add water and milk. Knead the dough and let it stand. Then roll out a thin cake and cut out small circles with a glass or a cup. Put the mince in the middle and pinch the edges, fasten the tips. Fry the mushrooms and onions in a frying pan. Prepare the sauce - mix sour cream and mayonnaise with plain water, salt, pepper and add your favorite spices. Grease the pots from the inside with butter so that nothing sticks to the walls. Lay the ingredients in layers. At the bottom of the pot lay a layer of frozen dumplings, on top of a layer of mushrooms with onions. And again a layer of dumplings and mushrooms. Pour the sauce to completely cover all the dumplings, cover with lids and put on a baking dish for 50 minutes. The oven can not be warmed - gradually the dumplings will heat up and thaw. Moreover, we will protect our pots so that they do not crack the temperature difference - after all, the ice dumplings inside them.
Recipe 2: Dumplings in a pot with cheese crust
Very tasty, no doubt, and most importantly simple. In less than half an hour you will get mouth-watering dumplings with mushrooms, under a golden crust. In this case, they must first fry in vegetable oil.
Ingredients: dumplings (300 grams), fresh mushrooms (200 grams), onions, carrots, hard cheese, ketchup, ground pepper, vegetable oil, herbs and salt.
Method of preparation
Fry the dumplings in vegetable oil until crusted. Dice onions and grate carrots. We cut mushrooms into plates and fry them all in vegetable oil for about 5 minutes. At the end add salt and ketchup. In the ceramic pots, first of all, lay out half of the vegetables, and then the dumplings and the remaining vegetables. Fill all with boiling water, so that about 1 cm of liquid was more. Top with grated cheese and chopped greens. We put in the oven or microwave for about 20 minutes. If the lid is not covered, a ruddy crust should form on top.
Recipe 3: Dumplings in pots with tomatoes
If you are tired of ordinary dumplings, add vegetables. Perfectly fit tomatoes with pepper. Baked in sour cream, they will be a great addition.
Ingredients: dumplings (400 grams), vegetable oil, salt-pepper, sour cream (3-4 spoons), greens, tomatoes (2 pieces), Bulgarian pepper (1 piece).
Method of preparation
Boil until half ready - in 1.5 liters of boiled water, fill dumplings and bring to a boil, reduce the heat. Cook for 3-5 minutes. Drain the water, pour the dumplings with vegetable oil and mix well, put it in 2-3 pots, depending on your eaters appetite. Add 2 tablespoons of sour cream, sliced tomatoes and pepper to each serving, pour 50 grams of salted water. Bake in the oven for about 30 minutes at 180 degrees. You can add canned corn, fresh herbs.
Potted dumplings - tips from experienced chefs
How to make minced meat for dumplings
These dumplings can be made from anything - but still worth remembering that some products do not fit together. For example, pork and beef are good, but chicken and turkey are not very good. If you are confused by dry chicken, it is better to add a little ground fat to the minced chicken - it will become richer and tastier.
Onions can be minced. And if, for example, a child does not like boiled onions, rub the onion on a fine grater, and he will never guess that the onion is present in the stuffing. You can slightly fry the finely chopped onion and mix it with a spoon of mayonnaise or sour cream, and only then add to the stuffing.
Dough cap
If you cook dishes in pots by all the rules - do not be lazy to make a hat from the dough, all the more so it is quite simple. Say - extra trouble? Exactly. But how tasty! Especially our cap will be rich. Ingredients: egg, 50 grams of margarine, some sugar, dry yeast (not more than a teaspoon), 2 cups flour, salt. Dissolve the yeast for several minutes and knead the dough immediately. Leave it to go up. As soon as it is ready - cut into pieces and mold flat cakes - covers for our pots. They grow and rise, and along with the dumplings you get a wonderful ruddy cakes. Enjoy your meal!
