Dumplings, a favorite dish of millions of people.
All over the world there are doubles of this dish: manti, khinkali, dumplings, ravioli, etc.
But it is dumplings that boast an incredible variety of recipes.
They can be sweet, stuffed with cottage cheese, berries, fruits and even chocolate.
For ordinary dumplings, the filling is prepared from vegetables, meat, meat offal, herbs, etc.
Dumplings on the water - the basic principles of preparation
Despite the fact that today you can buy ready-made dumplings, sometimes you want to cook real home-made dumplings. They, of course, can not be compared with the purchased ones.
The dumpling for dumplings is prepared on water, mineral water or dairy products. Dough prepared on water is low in calories. In addition, it can be rolled out quite thinly. To prevent the dough from breaking, an egg is added to it.
Salt water, mix it with slightly beaten egg and knead a dense dough. He is left to rest. Then knead again.
Part of the dough is rolled into a layer. Mugs are cut out with a glass. Spread the filling in the middle and pinch the edges so that the dumplings do not fall apart during the cooking process.
You can use anything you want as a filling. It can be berries, fruits, vegetables, meat, meat offal, cottage cheese, etc.
Ready dumplings are boiled in boiling, slightly salted water.
For dumplings with berries, fruits or cottage cheese, you can serve sweet berry sauce or sour cream. Dumplings with vegetables, meat or offal served with mayonnaise, sour cream or a sauce based on them.
Recipe 1. Dumplings on the water with cabbage
Ingredients
Filling
half a head of fresh cabbage;
salt;
200 g sauerkraut;
bulb;
ground pepper;
sugar;
sunflower oil;
25 g of tomato paste.
Dough
3 g of salt;
egg.
500 g of flour;
half a glass of drinking water.
Cooking method
1. Squeeze the sauerkraut. Chop fresh with thin, short strips. Finely chop the peeled onion. Heat the sunflower oil in the duckweed. Fry the onion in it until transparent. Now add to it fresh and pickled cabbage. Pour in half a glass of drinking water, add tomato paste, sugar. Simmer all together until tender. Add salt and pepper at the end. Stir and sweat for a few more minutes. Cool the cabbage completely.
2. Pour water into a cup, sift a quarter of the flour into it, beat in the egg and salt. Knead the dough, pouring flour in parts. Gather it in a lump and place in a deep bowl, cover with a lid and refrigerate for half an hour. Then remove and knead again.
3. Sprinkle the surface of the table with flour. Divide the dough in half. Leave one part in a bowl, covering it, and roll the second thinly. Cut the mugs with a glass. Collect the scraps and transfer to a bowl.
4. Put a stewed cabbage on each circle with a teaspoon. Fold the circle in half and carefully blind the edges. Dip the dumplings in boiling water, slightly salting it. Stir and cook until they float to the surface. Then turn the heat on and cook for about seven more minutes. Remove the prepared dumplings with a slotted spoon in a plate and pour the melted butter. Shake so that it is evenly distributed between the dumplings ...
Recipe 2. Dumplings on the water with cherries
Ingredients
300 g of cherries;
three pinches of salt;
sugar - 150 g;
sour cream - 50 g;
400 g flour;
egg;
100 ml of drinking water.
Cooking method
1. Wash the cherry thoroughly and remove the seeds. Fill the berry with sugar and leave for an hour. Drain the resulting juice and drop the cherry on a sieve.
2. In a deep bowl, mix the flour with salt. Beat the egg with water. Pour the beaten egg into the flour and knead the steep dough. Leave it to rest for half an hour.
3. Sprinkle the work surface with flour and roll the dough on it into a layer two millimeters thick. Cut the circles with a glass.
4. Put a little cherry in the center of each circle, connect the edges and carefully cover them, as the filling is quite juicy and can leak.
5. Boil water in a saucepan and salt it. Dip the dumplings in boiling water and cook, stirring, for ten minutes. Remove the prepared dumplings with a slotted spoon and put in a deep plate. Drizzle the dumplings with sour cream and cherry juice.
Recipe 3. Hutsul dumplings on the water
Ingredients
Dough
egg;
a pound of flour;
120 ml of warm water.
Filling
100 g of beans;
half of the bulb;
40 g of dried mushrooms;
ground black pepper;
sea salt.
Gas station
half of the bulb;
40 g of fat.
Cooking method
1. Wash the beans, if possible, soak it in water for several hours. Boil the beans in salted water. Drain the broth, and pepper the beans and salt. Grind the beans with a blender or meat grinder.
2. Wash dried mushrooms and boil for ten minutes. Then drain the broth, and finely chop the mushrooms. Finely chop the half peeled onion. Fry it all together until light brown. Add the mushroom roast in mashed beans and mix thoroughly.
3. From water, flour and eggs, knead a steep dough that should not stick to your palms. Roll it thinly into a layer and cut it out with a glass of a mug. In the middle of each, put the filling and form a dumpling, tightly covering the edges.
4. Finely chop the fat and fry to the state of cracklings. Then add the chopped second half of the onion and continue to fry until light golden brown.
5. Boil dumplings in slightly salted water, remove them with a slotted spoon on a plate and season with onion frying.
Recipe 4. Dumplings on the water with vanilla cream and raspberries
Ingredients
a glass of boiling water;
a pound of flour;
two eggs;
vanillin;
a glass of milk or non-fat cream;
80 g sour cream;
10 g of corn starch;
75 ml of olive oil;
80 g of granulated sugar.
Cooking method
1. Let's start with the custard. It is better to do this in the evening, so that he has time to thicken. Pour milk or cream into the stewpan and bring them to a boil, add sugar and vanillin. In a separate bowl, beat a little milk with an egg, add starch and mix so that there are no lumps. We introduce this mixture into milk and cook over low heat until thickened. If you do not have corn starch, you can use potato. The custard is completely cooled and placed in the refrigerator.
2. Sift one and a half cups of flour into a cup, add salt and pour everything with boiling water. Mix with a spoon, and when the dough cools down a little, drive in an egg, pour in olive oil. Pour the flour and knead the cool dough. Cover it with a cup and leave to rest for half an hour.
3. My raspberries and completely cool.
4. Divide the dough in half. We roll one part into a layer and cut the same circles with a glass. On each we put two raspberries, on top half a teaspoon of custard and again two raspberries. We connect the edges and carefully fasten them.
5. Dip the dumplings in boiling water, adding a little vegetable oil and salt. Cook since popping up for five minutes. We take out the slotted spoon in a plate and pour the butter.
6. We mix two tablespoons of custard with the same amount of sour cream, add raspberries and beat everything with a fork. The resulting sauce is served with dumplings.
Recipe 5. Dumplings on the water with meat "Home"
Ingredients
cold drinking water;
120 g of flour;
two onions;
egg;
200 g of boiled chicken;
salt;
a quarter cup of sunflower oil;
granulated sugar.
Cooking method
1. Grind the boiled chicken with a meat grinder or blender. Heat the oil in a pan and fry the finely chopped onion in it until transparent. Add chicken and continue to fry, stirring until light brown. Cool the filling completely.
2. Sift the flour into a deep cup, add salt and an egg to it. Add a little water and knead the steep dough. Leave it to rest, covering it with a cup, for half an hour.
3. Roll the dough into a layer and cut the same circles with a glass. Put a filling on each and connect the edges. Close them thoroughly.
4. Boil water in a saucepan, salt it, and lower the dumplings one at a time. Stir and cook since boiling, about six minutes. Remove the prepared dumplings with a slotted spoon on a wide dish and pour ghee.
Recipe 6. Dumplings on the water "Royal"
Ingredients
ten glasses of flour;
three glasses of boiling water;
8 g of salt;
three eggs;
700 g sauerkraut;
80 ml of sunflower oil;
a glass of beans;
5 g of sweet paprika;
kg of potatoes;
8 g of black pepper;
400 g soft cheese;
kg onion;
carrot;
sour cream.
Cooking method
1. Peel the carrots coarsely. Peel and chop the onions in small cubes. Sort beans, rinse and fill with cold water. Put on fire and boil until soft. Peel and boil the potatoes.
2. Chop the carrots into large chips. Fry the onions and carrots in heated oil until golden brown, add washed and squeezed sauerkraut. Pepper and stew until the cabbage is soft.
3. Drain the boiled potato water, mash the vegetable in mashed potatoes, add a portion of the fry, salt and black pepper. Shuffle.
4. Mash boiled beans in a blender in mashed potatoes. Put the remaining roast in it, salt and pepper. Shuffle.
5. Grate soft cheese into fine chips, add sweet paprika and salt. Mix gently.
6. Pour three cups of flour into a wide bowl. Add vegetable oil and salt to it. Pour boiling water in parts and mix the dough with a spoon. Add one egg to the slightly cooled dough without stopping stirring. Add the flour gradually and knead the smooth dough. Place it in a plastic bag and leave for an hour.
7. Take a piece of dough, roll it into a layer and cut out circles. Put two mugs on top of each other and press lightly in the middle with a wooden spatula. Between the two halves on one side, put the filling and fasten the edges. On the other hand, put another stuffing. Now staple the edges in a circle.
8. Dip a few pieces in boiling water, lightly, salt, mix and cook from the moment of emergence for about eight minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and pour the dumplings with ghee.
Recipe 7. Dumplings on the water with eggs
Ingredients
750 g of flour;
250 ml of drinking water;
150 ml of milk;
4 g of salt;
13 eggs;
5 g of spices;
bulb;
150 ml of milk.
Cooking method
1. Pour flour on a board with a slide, make a depression and add water, salt and an egg to it. Knead the cool dough.
2. Cut a piece of dough, roll it into a sausage and cut it into small pieces. Roll each slice in flour. Roll them into a circle and fasten the edges so that you get a bag with a hole at the top.
3. In a deep cup, beat the eggs with salt, spices and milk. Fry the onion separately until golden. Cool and add to the egg mixture.
4. Pour the egg and milk mixture into each bag and carefully tighten the edges. Dip the dumplings in boiling, slightly salted water and cook for five minutes from boiling. Remove the prepared dumplings and serve them with sour cream.
Dumplings on the water - tips and tricks from experienced hostesses
If you want to add spice to the filling, put finely chopped garlic or herbs in it.
For dough, use durum wheat flour.
To prevent the berries from filling, put the berries on a pinch of starch and a small amount of sugar.
Cook the dumplings in a large, wide pan.
