Dumplings - a traditional dish for the modern Russian table. Delicate dough and a variety of different fillings allow each time to reveal the taste of this dish in new ways.
The secret of delicious dumplings is simple - the dough must be made by hand and strictly according to the recipe, which has been perfected by many generations, and the filling depends on your taste preferences and the currently available ingredients.
Dough recipe and secrets
It is very difficult to find high-quality and tasty dough on the store shelves, so housewives often prepare it with their own hands at home. A good dough for dumplings should have certain properties - do not fall apart when cooking, roll well on thin layers, be elastic and delicate in taste.
A very important condition is the high quality of the ingredients, you should not buy the cheapest flour of an unknown manufacturer in the hope that it will turn out a delicious dish. Only the highest grade, good eggs that you usually buy for food, and finely ground salt.
Ingredients:
- Wheat flour - 500 g;
- Milk - 200 ml;
- Water - 200 ml;
- 1 chicken egg;
- Vegetable oil 1 tsp;
- Salt - 1 tsp.
Cooking time: 40 min.
Caloric content of the test: 205 Kcal per 100 g.
According to traditional recipes, the dough is flour, eggs and water. Such a composition can be called classic for any test, however, the main question is the balance and proportions. Countdown taken from the size of the eggs.
The average egg is 2 cups of flour (225 ml in a measuring cup).
Next, add 200 ml of water and 200 ml of milk. It is with a liquid that we can control the viscosity of the dough. Vegetable oil is added to make the test more elastic and tender. Be sure to salt, so that the dough fully revealed its taste.
Pour flour into a large saucepan, make a depression in the middle, break an egg and place it on top and fill it with water and milk. Knead the dough with your hands for 5-7 minutes. Add a spoonful of vegetable oil and stir for another 7 minutes.
It should be elastic, but not sticky dough homogeneous consistency for dumplings. Stickiness can be controlled by the addition of flour. Cover the dough with a cloth or cling film and put it in the fridge. It should settle down and calm down about 30-40 minutes.
Recipe for filling for dumplings with potatoes
To make the filling, we need the following ingredients:
- Red or white onions - 1.5 pcs .;
- Medium potato - 2 pcs .;
- Salt - 1 tsp.
Cooking time: 50 - 60 min.
Calorie filling: 265 Kcal per 100 g
While the dough comes in the fridge, and this process takes about 40 minutes, it's time to do the filling. We take two potatoes, peel and cut into medium-sized slices.
Put the saucepan with cold water on the fire, add salt and immediately put the potatoes. Leave to boil. As soon as the water starts to boil, we mark 30 minutes, wait, then we get the potatoes and make mashed potatoes. The most convenient way to use a blender with a special nozzle.
Then we take onions, we clean the husks and finely cut. We take a small frying pan, heat up, sprinkle with vegetable oil and fry on medium heat for 6 minutes until just a brown crust appears. Put mashed potatoes in a frying pan, fry for another couple of minutes and set aside.
How to make delicious dumplings with potatoes? We take the dough out of the refrigerator and, using a rolling pin or a rolling machine, make layers with a thickness not exceeding 2 mm. With the help of a glass or any other similar in form improvised means we cut circles.
For each circle you need to put a teaspoon of filling and pinch the edges. You should not hurry, the first time may be not quite smooth edges, no big deal, you will soon get a hand and all the dumplings will turn out beautiful one to one.
How many minutes to cook the dumplings with potatoes?
This will be the last step in preparing the dish: boil water, add 1 teaspoon of salt and cook.
Many housewives do not know how much to boil the dumplings with potatoes, so that they are tasty, do not fall apart and the stuffing does not fall out into the water. The answer is simple - it is necessary to cook the dumplings with potatoes for 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
It just needs to be remembered and never exceed this "threshold" of time, otherwise the result will not be particularly joyful.
The perfect addition to the already prepared dish will be sour cream and fresh greens. However, it is an amateur. Some prefer fried onion until golden brown or cracklings.
Cooking Tips in Different Ways
To begin, consider the easiest way - cooking dumplings with potatoes in a saucepan. Take the lowest and widest pan, so the water boils faster, and the dumplings will have more space.
Fill the pan with water for 2/3. Be sure to salt the water, even if you have a sweet filling, it will enhance the taste and save from sticking. After boiling, put the right amount of dumplings and mix immediately. Periodically interfere, before re-boiling liquid. Then leave the dumplings for 3 minutes.
Now let's figure out how and how much time to cook the dumplings with potatoes in a slow cooker, microwave and steamed.
In a slow cooker, you can boil both in steam and in water. We post the thawed dumplings on the bowl and start the “Steamed” mode. Svezhesleplennye will be ready in 10 minutes, and frozen after about 15 minutes.
You can also boil water in a slow cooker using a normal mode and cook them just as if we did it in a saucepan over an open fire. Do not forget to salt water.
In the microwave, you can warm up the finished dumplings, and cook them. We take a plastic container, fill it with water for 2/3, salt and cover with a lid or a suitable plate.
We set the maximum power (1000 W is enough), the timer for 1.5 minutes, during this time the water in the bowl should boil. Then we subtract 700 watts and leave to reach readiness for 7 minutes.
Only one question we have not yet revealed - how to cook frozen dumplings with potatoes.
So, the answer is: to cook frozen dumplings with potatoes, you can use any of the above recipes, adding to the last stage of cooking 3 minutes.
This is the time that the dough and toppings need to melt. Then they will boil the same way as the freshly molded product. The result is 2-3 minutes before boiling again and 4-5 minutes after.
Dumplings with potatoes - a tasty and simple dish for every day. Any hostess can cook it, because the ingredients are always available. The dish has a great taste, which is familiar to us since childhood.
