Fresh cottage cheese and dishes from it are great for breakfast for both children and adults. This product contains a sufficient amount of valuable protein, which means that a feeling of satiety will be guaranteed for a long time. Below are some step-by-step recipes for lazy cottage cheese dumplings with a photo. Such a dish will definitely appeal to all people and even those who do not use this fermented milk product in its pure form.
A simple recipe for lazy cottage cheese dumplings
Classical dumplings with cottage cheese is a popular dish of national Ukrainian cuisine. To prepare them, you only need toppings and dough. But directly the process of sculpting products is rather laborious and takes a lot of free time. Therefore, many housewives prefer to cook it is lazy dumplings with cottage cheese (pictured). A step-by-step recipe consists of the following steps:
- First of all, 2 packs of cottage cheese weighing 200 g each are laid out in a deep bowl and rubbed with a fork.
- 100 g of sugar, 2 eggs, vanillin and salt (½ teaspoon) are added.
- Curd is thoroughly mixed.
- Flour is sifted into a bowl (1-1 ½ tbsp.). It is difficult to specify the exact amount, since in this case it all depends on the moisture content of the curd.
- The dough will turn out soft, but will still stick to your hands. In the formation of dumplings, the flour is used necessarily.
- A piece of dough is cut from the dough, dusted with flour and rolled into a tourniquet. Now it needs to be cut into identical pieces. They can be left in this form or dusted with a slice of flour, give the products an oval or round shape.
After this, prepared dumplings can be frozen or cooked immediately. How to do it right is described below.
How to cook finished products?
Many recipes for lazy cottage cheese dumplings, presented on the Internet, indicate that they should be boiled in boiling water for 5 to 20 minutes. In fact, during this time, the dough will become sticky, and the products themselves will fall apart. How to cook lazy dumplings, we will tell you step by step:
- After kneading the dough, namely before molding the items, the pan of water goes to the stove.
- After boiling, a little salt is added. Water for dumplings should be slightly salty.
- The molded dough products are dipped in highly boiling water in small portions. After the dumplings float to the surface, they should be cooked for another 1-2 minutes (depending on size).
- Finished products are taken out with a slotted spoon and laid out on a plate.
Unlike dumplings made from dough with flour, semolina products should be cooked only until they float to the surface. Then they should be laid out on a plate.
In a double boiler or slow cooker with a bowl, steamed dumplings are cooked for 15 minutes. Serve them hot with sour cream, butter, condensed milk or jam.
The recipe for lazy dumplings "as in kindergarten"
The taste of the following dish is familiar to all children who attended the preschool, without exception. Many of them still believe that this recipe is the best for lazy dumplings with cottage cheese. According to the technological map of the kindergarten, for the preparation of 400 g of finished products it is necessary:
- Rub the cottage cheese (220 g) through a sieve or a fork.
- Add ½ chicken egg, 20 g sugar, 70 g wheat flour.
- Knead the dough. It should turn out quite tight and not stick to your hands.
- Roll out the dough into a layer 1 cm thick, then cut into ribbons 20-25 mm wide and into diamonds.
- Boil dumplings in boiling water. Serve with butter (20 g).
Recipe for lazy cottage cheese dumplings with semolina
Preparing such a dish is not at all difficult. By the way, many people dumplings with the addition of semolina like much more than those made on flour. They are more tender and tasty, and they are prepared in a matter of minutes. A step-by-step recipe for lazy dumplings with cottage cheese is as follows:
- From the grated cottage cheese (360 g), 1 egg, sugar (1 teaspoon), salt (½ teaspoon), semolina and flour (3 tbsp each), the dough is kneaded. Then it is left on the table for 10 minutes, so that the cereal swells.
- Small pieces are cut from the dough and rolled into sausages with a diameter of 15 mm. Then they are cut into pieces and dusted with flour.
- Formed dumplings are sent to boiling water and boiled until cooked. Croup swells very quickly, so the heat treatment time should be reduced to a minimum.
- Items are removed from the water using a slotted spoon and served on the table.
Lazy dumplings without flour
When preparing the next dish, only semolina is used. In this recipe for lazy dumplings from cottage cheese, flour is not even needed to heat it up.
At the very beginning of the preparation, the dough is mixed from one egg beaten with a fork, 200 g of cottage cheese, a pinch of salt, a tablespoon of sugar and semolina. Cereals will need four tablespoons. The mixed dough is left in a bowl on the table for 15 minutes to make the semolina swell.
At this time, water and salt are brought to a boil on the stove. Wet hands form round dough or any other shape from the dough. You can also roll the tourniquet, and then cut it into pieces of the same size. Dough pieces are dipped in boiling water. As soon as the dumplings float to the surface, they need to be caught with a slotted spoon or simply thrown into a colander. The finished dish is served with butter, jam, etc.
Lazy Dumplings with Cherry
There are two options for preparing such a dish. In the first case, traditional lazy dumplings are prepared according to the recipe from cottage cheese. After cooking, they are laid out on a plate and watered with cherry sauce, which is berries that are peeled and stewed in a saucepan with sugar.
The second option for making dumplings is different from the first. The dough for them is prepared quite traditional from 220 g of cottage cheese, 1 egg, flour (3 tbsp. Tablespoons), sugar and salt to taste. A tourniquet is rolled out of it and small pieces are cut. But they do not immediately sink into boiling water. First, each piece is flattened by the palm. Then pitted cherry berries (2 pcs.) Are laid out in the center of such a tortilla. The edges of the cakes are plucked from above, and a ball of dough rolls with your hands. Now it needs to be boiled in boiling water for 2 minutes. Such stuffed dumplings turn out to be much tastier than traditional ones, since they are prepared from soft cottage cheese dough. You can serve them with butter.
Original cottage cheese dumplings for children
This dish is ideal as a breakfast for babies who are already 1.5 years old. For younger children, they may be too heavy. Dumplings are prepared in the following way:
- Dry cottage cheese (250 g) is ground through a sieve or crushed by a blender into a mass of tender consistency. An egg, sugar (40 g), flour (½ tbsp) and a tablespoon of melted butter are added to it.
- The mixed dough is rolled into a 10 mm thick layer. Using molds, lazy dumplings of various shapes are cut out of it.
- At this time, water should already boil on the stove. Workpieces are lowered into it.
- According to the recipe for children, lazy dumplings from cottage cheese are cooked literally one minute after they surface.
- The finished dish is laid out on portioned plates, sprinkled with sugar and poured with melted butter.
How to cook lazy dumplings without eggs?
In fact, delicious products from childhood based on cottage cheese can be made without this ingredient. Moreover, they turn out much softer and softer than in the case of cooking according to the traditional recipe. You can give them any shape and serve with chocolate topping or confiture.
Such a lazy recipe for cottage cheese dumplings consists of the following steps:
- Cottage cheese (320 g) is whipped with a blender until tender.
- Salt is added to it (½ teaspoon), 50 g of sugar. The ingredients are mixed again.
- Next, starch (1 tbsp. Spoon) is sifted into the curd mass, semolina (3 tbsp. Tablespoons) is added and flour (150 g) is sifted. If cottage cheese is used dry, then less flour may be needed. Otherwise, you can add a little natural yogurt or sour cream to it.
- The dough should be tight, but not stick to your hands and not fall apart.
- Harnesses are formed from it (4 pcs.). They are cut into small pieces, rolled into balls in hands and boiled until ready in salted water.
Lazy dumplings with potatoes and cottage cheese
Dumplings, including those cooked according to a lazy recipe, can be not only sweet, but also salty. To do this, in the process of kneading the dough, you can not add sugar to it, but pour more salt. But it will be much tastier if you replace the sugar in the recipe with other ingredients, such as fresh herbs or potatoes.
To prepare such dumplings, you need 500 g of cooled mashed potato, as well as cottage cheese (150 g), 1 egg, salt and flour (about ½ tbsp.). Products are molded in the same way as in previous recipes. First, small harnesses are cut from the test. Then sausages are formed from them, which, in turn, are cut into pieces.
Ready lazy dumplings are served hot with butter. They can also be sprinkled with green onions, dill or parsley and served with sour cream.
Features and recommendations for cooking
The following helpful tips allow you to cook delicious and beautiful lazy dumplings without making much effort. In the cooking process, it is important to consider the following points:
- Important for a dish such as lazy dumplings, is the fat content of cottage cheese. The higher it is, the softer and more tender the finished products will turn out.
- The amount of flour can be adjusted as you wish. If you add it less, the dough will be sticky, but the dumplings will be more tender, and vice versa.
- Curd for dumplings is better to buy drier. Then much less flour will be needed for the dough.
- If the cottage cheese is too dry, you can add a little sour cream, kefir or yogurt. But the amount of flour in this case will not have to be reduced.
- Lazy dumplings can be given any shape. When serving, you can sprinkle with vanilla or cinnamon, garnish with fresh fruit.