Dumplings, a favorite dish of millions of people.
There are twins of this dish all over the world: manti, khinkali, ravioli, ravioli, etc.
But it is dumplings that can boast an incredible variety of recipes.
They can be sweet, filled with cottage cheese, berries, fruits and even chocolate.
For ordinary dumplings, stuffing is prepared from vegetables, meat, meat offal, greens, etc.
Dumplings on the water - the basic principles of cooking
Despite the fact that today you can buy ready-made dumplings, sometimes you want to make real home-made dumplings. They, of course, do not go to any comparison with the purchased ones.
Dough for dumplings is prepared on water, mineral water or dairy products. Dough cooked in water, has a low calorie. In addition, it can be rolled thin enough. So that the dough does not tear, add an egg to it.
Water is salted, mixed with a slightly beaten egg and knead the dense dough. He is left to rest. Then knead again.
Part of the test roll into the reservoir. Glass cut circles. Lay out the stuffing in the middle and pinch the edges so that the dumplings do not fall apart during the cooking process.
As a filling you can use anything. It can be berries, fruits, vegetables, meat, meat offal, cottage cheese, etc.
The finished dumplings are boiled in boiling, lightly salted water.
You can serve sweet berry sauce or sour cream to the dumplings with berries, fruit or cottage cheese. Dumplings with vegetables, meat or offal are served with mayonnaise, sour cream or a sauce based on them.
Recipe 1. Dumplings on water with cabbage
Ingredients
Stuffing
half a head of fresh cabbage;
salt;
200 g sauerkraut;
bulb;
ground pepper;
sugar;
sunflower oil;
25 g tomato paste.
Dough
3 g of salt;
egg.
500 g of flour;
half a glass of drinking water.
Method of preparation 1. Strain sauerkraut. Fresh chop thin, short strips. Peeled onion finely crumble. Heat the sunflower oil in the meat pan. Fry the onions in it until transparent. Now add to it fresh and sauerkraut. Pour in half a glass of drinking water, add tomato paste, sugar. Simmer all together until cooked. Add salt and pepper at the end. Stir and sweat for a few more minutes. Cool the cabbage completely.
2. Pour water into the cup, sift a fourth of the flour into it, beat the egg and salt. Knead the dough, adding the flour in parts. Collect it in a room and place in a deep dish, cover with a lid and send in the refrigerator for half an hour. Then remove and knead again.
3. Sprinkle flour over the surface of the table. Divide the dough in half. Leave one part in a bowl, cover it, and roll the other one thinly. Glass cut circles. Collect the trim and put it in a bowl.
4. Put a stewed cabbage on each circle with a teaspoon. Fold the circle in half and carefully blind the edges. Dumplings dipped in boiling water, lightly salted it. Stir and cook until they float to the surface. Then twist the fire and cook for about seven more minutes. Take out the prepared dumplings with a skimmer on the plate and pour with melted butter. Shake so that it is evenly distributed between the dumplings ..
Recipe 2. Dumplings on water with cherry
Ingredients
300 g cherries;
three pinches of salt;
sugar - 150 g;
sour cream - 50 g;
400 g of flour;
egg;
100 ml of drinking water.
Method of preparation
1. Wash the cherry thoroughly and remove the bones. Cover sugar with sugar and leave for an hour. The resulting juice is drained and fold the cherries into a sieve.
2. In a deep bowl, mix the flour and salt. Beat the egg with water. Pour the beaten egg into the flour and knead the stiff dough. Leave him to rest for half an hour.
3. Sprinkle flour over the work surface and roll dough on it into a layer two millimeters thick. Glass cut circles.
4. Put a little cherry in the center of each mug, connect the edges and carefully seal them, as the filling is quite juicy and can flow out. 5. Boil water in a saucepan and salt it. Dumplings dip in boiling water and cook, stirring for ten minutes. Take out the finished dumplings with a skimmer and place in a deep dish. Pour the dumplings with sour cream and cherry juice.
Recipe 3. Hutsul Dumplings on Water
Ingredients
Dough
egg;
half a kilo of flour;
120 ml of warm water.
Stuffing
100 g of beans;
half onion;
40 g dry mushrooms;
ground black pepper;
sea salt.
Filling
half onion;
40 grams of fat.
Method of preparation
1. Wash the beans, if possible, soak it in water for several hours. Boil the beans in salted water. Drain broth and pepper and salt. Grind the beans with a blender or grinder.
2. Wash dried mushrooms and boil for ten minutes. Then drain the broth, and finely chop the mushrooms. Finely chop the half of the peeled onion. Fry everything together until light rudiness. Stir in the bean puree and mix thoroughly.
3. From water, flour and eggs, knead the stiff dough, which should not stick to your palms. Thinly roll it into a layer and cut out cups with the help of a glass. Put the stuffing in the middle of each one and form a dumpling, close up tightly around the edges.
4. Finely chop the lard and fry until the state of the greaves. Then add the chopped second half of the onion and continue to fry until light golden brown.
5. Boil the dumplings in lightly salted water, remove them with a slotted spoon on a plate and season with onion roast.
Recipe 4. Dumplings on water with vanilla cream and raspberry
Ingredients
a glass of boiling water;
half a kilo of flour;
two eggs;
vanillin;
a glass of milk or low-fat cream;
80 g sour cream;
10 g of corn starch;
75 ml of olive oil;
80 grams of granulated sugar.
Method of preparation
1. Let's start with cooking custard. It is better to do this in the evening, so that he can thicken. Pour milk or cream into a saucepan and bring them almost to the boil, add sugar and vanilla. In a separate bowl, beat some milk with an egg, add starch and mix to avoid lumps. Enter this mixture into the milk and cook over low heat until thick. If you do not have corn starch, you can use potato. Cool the custard completely and place in the fridge. 2. Sift one and a half cups of flour in a cup, add salt and pour all boiling water. Stir with a spoon, and when the dough cools a little, we hammer in an egg, pour in olive oil. Add flour and knead the dough. Cover it with a cup and leave to rest for half an hour.
3. My raspberries and completely cooled.
4. Divide the dough in half. We roll one part into the reservoir and cut out the same circles with a glass. On each put two raspberries, on top half a teaspoon of custard and again two raspberries. We join the edges and carefully fasten them.
5. Dumplings dipped in boiling water, adding a little vegetable oil and salt. Cook since the moment of floating up about five minutes. We take out with a skimmer in a plate and pour with butter.
6. Two tablespoons of custard mix with the same amount of sour cream, add the raspberries and whip everything with a fork. The resulting sauce is served with dumplings.
Recipe 5. Dumplings on water with meat “Home”
Ingredients
cold drinking water;
120 g of flour;
two bulbs;
egg;
200 g boiled chicken;
salt;
a quarter cup of sunflower oil;
granulated sugar.
Method of preparation
1. Chop the boiled chicken fillet with a meat grinder or blender. Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the finely chopped onion in it to transparency. Add the chicken meat and continue to fry, stirring until light rosy. Cool completely.
2. Sift the flour into a deep cup, add salt and egg to it. Add a little water and knead the dough. Leave him to rest, covered with a cup, for half an hour.
3. Roll out the dough into a layer and cut out identical cups with a glass. Put the stuffing on each one and connect the edges. Carefully close them up.
4. Boil water in a saucepan, salt it and lower the dumplings one at a time. Stir and cook from boiling for about six minutes. Take out the prepared dumplings with a skimmer on a wide dish and pour with melted butter.
Recipe 6. “Tsar” Dumplings on Water
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 sweet paprika;
kg of potatoes;
8 g black pepper;
400 g soft cheese;
kg of onions;
carrot;
sour cream.
Method of preparation
1. Peeled carrots, coarsely rub. Peel the onions and shred in small cubes. Sort the beans, rinse and cover with cold water. Put on the fire and boil until soft. Peel potatoes and boil.
2. Grind carrots into large chips. Fry the onions and carrots in hot oil until golden brown, add the washed and squeezed sauerkraut. Pepper and simmer until the cabbage is soft.
3. Drain the boiled potatoes with water, mash the vegetables in mashed potatoes, add a part of the roast, salt and black pepper. Stir.
4. Chop the boiled beans in a blender in mashed potatoes. Put the remaining roast in it, salt and pepper. Stir.
5. Rub soft cheese into small chips, add sweet paprika and salt. Stir gently.
6. Pour three glasses of flour into a wide bowl. Add vegetable oil and salt to it. Pour in boiling water with parts and stir the dough with a spoon. In a slightly cooled dough, add one egg at a time, continuing to mix. Gradually sprinkle the flour and knead the smooth dough. Put it in a plastic bag and leave for an hour.
7. Take a piece of dough, roll it into a layer and cut circles. Place two mugs on top of each other and lightly press down with a wooden spatula in the middle. Between the two halves on one side, place the filling and seal the edges. On the other hand put the other stuffing. Now fasten the edges in a circle.
8. Dip a few pieces in boiling water, lightly salted it, mix and cook from the moment of ascent for eight minutes. Remove the skimmer and pour the dumplings with melted butter.
Recipe 7. Dumplings on 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.
Method of preparation
1. Slide the flour on the board, make a well and add water, salt and egg to it. Knead the dough.
2. Cut a piece of dough, roll it into a sausage and cut it into small pieces. Roll each piece 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 bowl, beat the eggs with salt, spices and milk. Separately fry the onions to ruddy. Cool and add to the egg mixture.
4. Pour the egg-milk mixture into each pouch and carefully seal the edges. Dip the dumplings in boiling, lightly salted water and cook for five minutes from the moment of boiling. Take out the ready dumplings and serve them with sour cream.
Dumplings on the water - tips and tricks from experienced housewives
- If you want to add a piquancy to the filling, add finely chopped garlic or greens into it.
- For dough, use durum wheat flour.
- To prevent the filling of the berries from flowing, place the berries on a pinch of starch and a small amount of sugar.
- Cook the dumplings in a large, wide saucepan.
