Cherry dumplings - general principles of cooking
There is no dish more summer and fragrant than dumplings with cherries. As soon as the season of red sweet and sour berries comes, the hostesses prepare delicious pies and dumplings with a cherry. True, there are several secrets of the proper preparation of dough for dumplings, so that they do not open up from the cherry juice and do not harden.
Cherry dumplings - preparing food and dishes
In order for the dumpling to be delicious and nothing distracts from the exciting process of enjoying the dish, the cherries must first be cleaned from the seed. After that, put the berries in a colander and let them drain. Is it possible to use frozen cherries for dumplings? Of course, only defrost it before cooking.
Cherry dumpling recipes:
Recipe 1: Cherry Dumplings
Dumplings with cherries can be steamed or boiled in the traditional way in boiling water. In this recipe, we will prepare the dough for dumplings, which will then be cooked.
Ingredients Required:
Dough for cooking dumplings in water
- Flour 250 grams
- Water boiling water 200 ml
- Sunflower oil 2 tablespoons
- Soda 1/2 tsp
- Salt
For the filling
- Cherry 500 grams
- Sugar to taste
Preparation Method:
- Knead dough for dumplings. To do this, mix the flour, sown through a sieve, soda and salt. Heat the water, add the butter to it and pour in the flour. Stir first with a spoon, while it is hot, and then, when it cools, keep your hands on it. The dough for dumplings should be elastic and soft, similar to the dough for pasties.
- Sprinkle flour over the surface of the table and roll out the dough with a rolling pin into a layer about 2.5 centimeters thick. Cup make circles from dough.
- Separate the cherry from the stone and place four cherries and a teaspoon of sugar in the middle of each circle. Determine the amount of sugar yourself to your taste.
- Zaschipnite dough dumplings. You can tweak the beautiful shape of a pigtail, because the dough is very supple.
- The water in the saucepan, where the dumplings will boil, bring to a boil and add salt. Put flour products in a saucepan, and as soon as they come up, cook for no more than one or two minutes.
Recipe 2: Steamed cherry dumplings (on gauze)
Steamed dumplings can be cooked in several ways. For example, if you have a double boiler, it is very simple and fast, but you can also use gauze stretched over the pan.
Ingredients Required:
Dough for cooking steamed dumplings
- Kefir 1 cup low-fat
- Flour 250 grams
- Soda 1/2 tsp
- Salt
For the filling:
- Cherry 500 grams
- Sugar
Preparation Method:
- Pour the kefir into a deep bowl and add soda and salt to it. Stir.
- Flour, sifted through a sieve, add a thin stream to kefir, stirring it with a spoon.
- Knead the dough, gradually pouring into the mass of flour. The dough should be very soft. Here is the secret of delicious dumplings - the softer the dough for them, the more airy the dish will be at the exit.
- Tear off a piece of dough from a lump of dough, make a sausage with your hands and cut it into pieces.
- Turn each piece by hand into a round layer about 1-1.5 centimeters thick. When working with dough, sprinkle with flour so that it does not stick.
- In the middle of the cake, put 4-5 cherries each and pour sugar to taste. Pinch the edges of the dumplings.
- Pour about half of the water into the pan, tie the gauze on top so that the edges do not hang (otherwise they light up) and cover with a lid.
- Once the water has boiled, place the dumplings at a distance from each other and cook under a lid for about five minutes. Serve, sprinkle with sugar.
Recipe 3: Dumplings with cherries and strawberries in a double boiler
Another recipe for cherry dumplings, also steamed. You will need a slow cooker.
Ingredients Required:
Dough for cooking steamed dumplings
- Cold sour milk 250 ml
- Flour 300 grams
- Soda 1/2 tsp
- Salt to taste
For the filling:
- Cherries 200 grams
- Strawberries 200 grams
- Sugar
Preparation Method:
- Pour the yogurt into a deep bowl, add salt and soda, mix.
- Add a thin stream of flour to the yogurt, stir. Stir the dough until it is thick and soft.
- Divide the resulting lump of dough into several parts. Make a sausage from one part, cut it into several pieces. Each piece of hand, flatten into a tortilla, about one and a half centimeters thick.
- Wash strawberries and cherries, remove bones from cherries. Cut strawberries into slices and mix with cherries, sprinkle with sugar.
- In the middle of each flatbread dough, put a spoonful of fruit filling and pinch the edges tightly.
- Pour water into the steamer, brushing the bottom of the bowl with vegetable oil, and put the dumplings there a short distance from each other. Cover the steamer with the lid and cook the dumplings with cherries and strawberries for about 7 minutes.
Cherry dumplings - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs
- The better you put the dough, the tastier and more airy you will get dumplings. Sprinkle flour during dough preparation.
- Serve the ready dumplings with sour cream and powdered sugar.
- If you make the dough for steamed dumplings, you can make it thicker - the dish will turn out not heavy, but only more tasty and satisfying.
