Dumplings are popular due to the fact that they are quick and easy to cook: just boil water, throw dumplings at it, cook a little - and the full meal is ready. However, dumplings can not only boil. Other methods of preparation allow you to get dishes that are very different from the slightly dumped dumplings boiled in water. One of the most unusual dishes - dumplings, baked in a slow cooker.
Cooking Features
- Many people know how to cook dumplings on the stove. But cooking dumplings in a slow cooker has its own characteristics. If someone is going to bake dumplings in a slow cooker for the first time, he will probably have questions about how to do it correctly, so that the dumplings do not stick together. Tips experienced housewives will help them to understand this issue.
- For baking, as well as for boiling, the quality of ravioli is of paramount importance. If they are made from an unsuccessful dough and are poorly molded, they will fall apart, becoming shapeless, they are in a slow cooker. No less important is the quality of the filling: if it is made from anything other than meat, it will not become meat, like dumplings or cook.
- It is impossible to thaw the dumplings before baking, otherwise they will stick together - they will fall asleep in the bowl of the slow cooker frozen. All other ingredients by this time should be fully prepared so that the dumplings are not defrosted before time.
- It will prevent the butter from sticking to the dumplings during cooking. You should not feel sorry for him. And with butter, the dumplings baked in the slow cooker are more tasty.
- In order to bake the dough, when baking dumplings in a slow cooker, water is added. In fact, they are first boiled, then baked. If you add as much water as indicated in the recipe, it will be enough, and at the same time it will not remain in the finished dish.
Features of cooking pelmeni in a slow cooker may vary slightly - it all depends on the specific recipe.
Dumplings baked in a slow cooker with sour cream
Composition:
- dumplings - 0, 4 kg;
- water - 125 ml;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- soy sauce - 20 ml;
- butter - 50 g;
- sour cream - 100 g;
- salt - to taste;
- bay leaf - 1 pc.
Method of preparation:
- Boil water, add hot water to sour cream, stir well.
- Pour the sauce into the sour cream, mix.
- Crush the garlic and mix it with sour cream sauce.
- If desired, lightly salt the sauce, but do not forget that the seasoning from soy is already salty.
- Pour frozen dumplings into the bowl. Put on them pieces of butter. Pour all the cream sauce. Place a laurel sheet on top.
- Lower the lid, install the Baking program. Turn on the timer for 30 minutes.
After the timer has triggered, the dumplings will be laid out on a plate. It would be nice to sprinkle them with fresh herbs.
Dumplings baked with cheese
Composition:
- dumplings - 0, 8 kg;
- water - 0, 2 l;
- mayonnaise - 150 ml;
- cheese - 100 g;
- seasoning for ravioli - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Finely rub the cheese of any of the hard varieties.
- Dissolve mayonnaise with hot water.
- Mix seasoning with gravy.
- Put the dumplings, without defrosting, in the slow cooker, pour the prepared mixture.
- Select the Baking program and run it for 30 minutes. The first 25 minutes, bake the dumplings under the lid. 5 minutes before the end of the program, sprinkle with cheese and before the end of the program, cook the dish with the lid open.
Dumplings, baked in a multicooker according to this recipe, look very appetizing. Cheese gives them even more pleasant taste. Mayonnaise in the recipe can be zapenit sour cream.
Dumplings baked with cheese and eggs
Composition:
- dumplings - 0, 8 kg;
- eggs - 4 pcs .;
- onions - 0, 3 kg;
- mayonnaise - 0, 25 l;
- cheese - 100 g;
- butter - 100 g;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Peel the onions, cut into small cubes.
- Place half of the prescribed butter in a slow cooker. Turn on Baking mode. After a couple of minutes, add the onion and fry it for 5-7 minutes, until it becomes translucent. Turn off the slow cooker, remove the bow.
- Put the remaining oil in the slow cooker, cutting it into small pieces. Put the frozen dumplings. Cover them with onions.
- Break eggs into a bowl, add salt, spices, mayonnaise, whisk everything well.
- Fill the dumplings with the mixture.
- Rub finely cheese and sprinkle dumplings on top.
- Bake the dish in Baking mode for 40 minutes.
A dish that will turn out in the end, it would be more correct to call the dumpling casserole. It is very unusual, but almost certainly, having prepared it once, you will want to repeat this experiment more than once.
Dumplings baked in a slow cooker with sausages and mushrooms
Composition:
- dumplings - 0, 8 kg;
- onions - 0, 2 kg;
- cream - 0, 2 l;
- cheese - 100 g;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- champignons - 0, 2 kg;
- sausages - 0, 2 kg;
- butter - 50 g;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Cut clean champignons into small pieces.
- Remove the husks from the onion, cut into small pieces.
- Cut the sausages in small circles.
- Finely rub the cheese, mix it with cream, spices and salt.
- In the multicooker bowl, melt the butter by turning on the “Baking” mode. Put onions in it, fry for 5 minutes. Add the mushrooms and fry with the lid open until excess moisture is gone. Turn off the unit, remove the mushrooms with onions.
- Wait until the bowl of the slow cooker has cooled, grease with vegetable oil and put dumplings in it. If you do not want to wait, you can fry the mushrooms with onions not in a slow cooker, but in a pan.
- Put the mushrooms fried in onions with dumplings.
- Fill all with creamy sauce.
- Select the Baking program, set the timer to 40 minutes.
Dumplings in cheese and cream sauce with mushrooms and sausages are unlikely to leave anyone indifferent. Sausages can be replaced with chicken breast, cut into small pieces.
Dumplings, baked in a slow cooker, is a unique dish, a little resembling the usual dumplings in broth, cooked in a pan.
