Galushki is a traditional Ukrainian dish. These are boiled small pieces of unleavened dough with various spices. They can be served separately, seasoned with sour cream or butter, or you can cook delicious soups with them.
In Ukrainian cuisine, there are many recipes for soup with dumplings, and each is good in its own way. Therefore, lovers have the opportunity to diversify their menu and cook soup with dumplings either according to one recipe or another. For a classic Ukrainian soup with dumplings, you will need:
– 1 chicken carcass (approximately per kilogram);
– 1 forks of cauliflower; – 5 potatoes;
– 1 carrot; – 1 head of onion; – 1 egg;
– 1 tbsp. flour;
– greens (onions, parsley, dill);
– pepper;
– salt.
First, prepare chicken broth. To do this, gut, wash and dry the chicken carcass, then put it in a saucepan with cold water, add onions, carrots, salt and cook for about an hour until the chicken is fully cooked. Then remove the chicken, onions and carrots from the broth and place the peeled and sliced potatoes. After 10 minutes add cauliflower, after dividing it into inflorescences. Next, run dumplings into the soup.
To prepare Ukrainian dumplings, take 1 raw egg, beat it into a couple of tablespoons of flour, add a pinch of salt and pour in a little water or milk and knead a thick dough. Then roll it into a ball, from which pinch off pieces of dough and dip into the soup. This should be done 5-10 minutes before the end of cooking the soup with dumplings.
You can make a soup with buckwheat dumplings. For them you will need:
– 2-3 tbsp. buckwheat flour;
– 1 egg;
– water;
– salt.
To make dumplings from wheat or buckwheat flour tender and soft, it is necessary to add water or milk when kneading the dough. Dumplings will be very tough without liquid.
Knead the buckwheat flour, egg and water dough. It should be cool. Then roll out the resulting dough and cut it into small pieces. Take dumplings with a large spoon and dip in boiling salted water. Stir well and cook for about half an hour. Then catch with a slotted spoon, rinse lightly with boiled water and dip the dumplings into the cooking soup or serve separately, seasoned with butter or lard fried with onions.
The cooking time of dumplings largely depends on their size: small ones cook faster, larger ones take longer
When the dumplings soup is ready, add the washed and finely chopped greens to it, cook for another 1-2 minutes and remove from heat. Cut the boiled chicken into small pieces or separate the meat from the bones and chop with a knife. Before serving soup with dumplings to the table, place chicken in each plate and add sour cream or a piece of butter if desired.