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In a saucepan: put frozen dumplings (convenience store products) with potatoes, cherries or cottage cheese in boiling water and cook for 15 minutes after boiling, without defrosting.
Steam in a double boiler: cook the dumplings for 20 minutes.
How to cook dumplings
1. Boil water: pour 1 liters of water for 15 portion of dumplings (20-0,5 pieces), add a little salt if necessary.
2. When the water boils, put the dumplings in the water.
3. Cook dumplings with any fillings for 15 minutes.
4. Drain the water, transfer the dumplings to a plate.
5. Serve the dumplings with a cube of butter and sour cream.
How to cook dumplings in a double boiler
1. Fill the liquid compartment with water, put the steamer into the on mode for 25 minutes.
2. After 5 minutes, the water will boil, by this time put the dumplings on a steamer tray, cover and set over steam. It is important that the dumplings should be placed freely on the tray so that the steam can process the dumplings over the entire surface.
3. Cook any dumplings – with potatoes, cherries and cottage cheese – 20 minutes on the lower level of the steamer, 25 on the middle and 30 on the upper level.
Delicious facts
How long to cook dumplings with potatoes, cottage cheese, cherries
Cook dumplings with potatoes for 15 minutes, since the potatoes have already been cooked.
Cook dumplings with good quality cottage cheese for 10 minutes, but if flour or semolina was added to the filling, then for 5 minutes longer.
Cook the dumplings with cherries for 15 minutes until the dough is completely cooked.
Dumplings that were blinded by hand (even in special factories) should be boiled longer. Because there is no automatic tracking of the quality of the sculpting, it may turn out that a thick layer of dough forms at the seam joint, which needs to be boiled longer.
How to serve dumplings?
Put the finished dumplings on a plate and, according to tradition, pour with butter. For savory filling, dumplings can be sprinkled with herbs, served with sour cream or sauce. Sweet dumplings can also be served with sour cream or condensed milk.
How to store boiled dumplings?
Put the dumplings from the broth on a plate, cool, cover and refrigerate for a maximum of 2 days.
How to make dumplings
Products
Flour – 3 Glass
Water – 1/3 cup
Milk – 1/3 cup
Chicken egg whites – 3 pieces
Salt – 1 teaspoon
Filling for dumplings – half a kilo
How to cook
1. For dumplings dough, knead 3 cups of wheat flour, 1/3 cup of water, 1/3 cup of milk, 3 egg whites and 1 teaspoon of salt.
2. Cover the dough and leave for 40 minutes at room temperature.
3. Roll out the dumplings dough with a rolling pin on the table in a large and thin layer (2-2,5 millimeters).
4. Prepare either a round mold, or a glass, or a glass of 4-5 cm in a radius – and squeeze out the cakes (of the same size). Re-mix the remaining dough, roll out – and so on until the dough runs out.
5. Prepare the filling. For dumplings, fillings are suitable, the cooking time of which does not exceed 15 minutes. The most popular fillings are cherries, potatoes with boiled mushrooms, cottage cheese, and cabbage. If you want to be original, you can try making dumplings with strawberries, cheese, lard, pumpkin, zucchini with cheese, liver or onions. For special originality, dumplings with shrimps or squid are suitable.
6. Put the filling on 1 half of the tortillas for dumplings, cover with the other half. Gently pinch the edges of the cake.
7. Pour water into a saucepan and put on fire.
8. Bring water to a boil and add the dumplings.
9. Cook the dumplings for 15 minutes.
Fillings for dumplings
The most popular fillings for dumplings are cherries, potatoes with boiled mushrooms, cottage cheese, cabbage. If you want to be original, you can try making dumplings with strawberries, cheese, lard, pumpkin, zucchini with cheese, liver or onions. And if you want to show off frankly, dumplings with shrimps or squid are definitely suitable for this.
Put the filling on 1 half of the tortillas for dumplings, cover with the other half. Gently pinch the edges of the cake.
Put the dumplings in boiling water, cook for 10-15 minutes after boiling.
Dough for kefir dumplings
Products
Kefir – 1,3 cups
Chicken egg – 1 piece
Salt – half a teaspoon
Wheat flour – 750 grams
Filling for dumplings – half a kilo
How to cook
1. Pour kefir into a deep bowl.
2. Break the chicken egg into a bowl, beat, add to the kefir and mix.
3. Sift a third of the flour into a large bowl, add kefir with eggs and mix.
4. Gradually adding flour, knead the hard dough – it should not stick to your hands.
Your dough for kefir dumplings is ready, you can start rolling and sculpting the dumplings.