Dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms, and even home-cooked, are always welcome at any table. They can be glued for the future and frozen in the refrigerator, and, if necessary, removed and boiled. This type of dumplings in popularity can only be compared with dumplings.
The taste of dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms largely depends on the quality of the dough. Therefore, in the article we will first introduce the reader to several options for its preparation. If you follow the recipe, then making a soft and elastic dough will not be difficult. Beautiful dumplings are also obtained from a good dough, which, when boiled, will not lose part of the filling, as is often the case after purchasing store-bought products.
Choux pastry
If you decide to cook the dough according to this recipe, then the dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms will be very thin and tender. After all, it is during brewing that the dough is elastic and soft. And the products necessary for him are quite simple. Neither eggs, nor milk or kefir are included in the ingredients. The main components are as follows:
- a glass of boiling water;
- 2 tbsp. l rast. oils;
- a third of a teaspoon of salt;
- wheat flour - 2 cups.
Before cooking, it is necessary to sift the flour and pour it into a large container, preferably enameled. In the middle, make a small excavation, pour salt and fill in vegetable oil. Mix well. Then add boiling water and immediately start the batch using a spoon. When the dough cools down a little and kneading with a spoon will be difficult, you can continue the procedure with your hands. First check if it has cooled down so as not to burn your hands. After kneading, the dough will be soft and elastic.
The container with the finished product must be covered with a cotton napkin or cling film and set aside for half an hour to insist. This dough for dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms can be used during fasting.
Kefir dough preparation
For dumplings, you need to take the highest quality wheat flour and be sure to sift it through a sieve to enrich it with oxygen. To knead the dough you will need 4 cups of flour, a pinch of salt, 2 chicken eggs, a glass of kefir. Some chefs dilute kefir with water so that it is more liquid.
Salt, chicken eggs are added to the sifted flour and mixed, then kefir is poured. It is better to knead such a dough with your hands. At the end of kneading, it should be resilient, but soft. Then it will be possible to roll dumplings in a thin layer. After all, the thinner the dough layer, the tastier and more tender the dumplings. Before rolling out the dough, it should stand covered for half an hour. At this time, the hostess can cook the filling.
How to cook potatoes
According to the recipe for dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms, you need to cook mashed potatoes. To do this, you need to choose a variety of vegetables that is well boiled, washed, peeled, cut all eyes or any dark or green spots, cut into cubes of the same size.
Then they put the potatoes in a pan, pour water so that it covers the upper pieces, and put on fire. When the water in the pan begins to boil, you need to remove the foam that has formed with a slotted spoon and continue to cook over low heat until cooked. You need to check readiness with a fork. If the potatoes are boiled, then the point will calmly, effortlessly enter the vegetable. It remains only to drain the water, salt, optionally pepper and thoroughly crush everything with a normal pusher. Set aside for cooling this part of the filling for dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms. You can see the photo and the recipe for cooking mushrooms later in the article.
What mushrooms are used in dumplings
What good dumplings with such a filling is that mushrooms can be used differently. The easiest option is to take canned mushrooms bought at the store or harvested by yourself, rinse them under wastewater, cut into small pieces and mix with mashed potatoes.
If you want to make a filling with fresh mushrooms, then there are two ways to do this. Buy in the store champignons grown in artificially created mushrooms. They are easier to process, you can not boil, and after washing, simply cut into small pieces and simmer in a frying pan in vegetable oil.
You can fry chopped onions together with mushrooms, then the filling will be more juicy and aromatic.
How to cook wild mushrooms?
Next, we present a step-by-step recipe for dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms, harvested independently or bought on the market. Forest mushrooms require closer attention of the hostess. First, they are thoroughly washed under wastewater so that the sand and soil of the terrain in which they grew out come out. Then they need to be boiled in a saucepan for 5 minutes. After this, the water drains, the mushrooms are washed again. Then the container is refilled with water, and the mushrooms are boiled again for 5 minutes.
Then the mushrooms are washed under cold water and cut into small cubes. Cooked mushrooms are sent to a preheated pan with a small amount of vegetable oil and stewed until light brown. You can also add chopped onions to the pan.
If mushrooms are bought in dried form, then before boiling, they must be soaked in water for 10 minutes, then rinse thoroughly and then boil according to this scheme.
After cooking, the mushrooms are mixed with mashed potatoes. The filling for our dumplings is ready!
Rolling out the dough
While the filling was being prepared for dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms (the photo was considered earlier), the dough settled, so you can start working with it. There are several ways to make dumplings.
- Making dumplings using dumplings. This is such an aluminum mold, for which you need to roll out two identical sheets to the size of a round shape. Then the metal surface is sprinkled with flour, the first sheet is placed and lightly pressed by hand around the circle so that the filling compartments are visible. After that, one spoon of the filling is placed in each cavity. When all holes are filled, a second sheet is superimposed on top. Gently crush it with your hand, then roll it out with a rolling pin so that the dough sticks the dumplings. It remains only to flip the form and immediately knock out a large number of dumplings. It is fast and convenient.
- The next method is the formation of individual lumps. Begin work by separating a small fraction from a large piece of dough. From it form a "sausage" with a diameter of 3-4 cm. Then you need to cut it into small cylinders of equal size. Each piece is dipped on all sides in flour and rolled into a circle, on which a filling for dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms is superimposed. A step-by-step recipe is described above. Then each dumpling is separately taken in the hand, and its edges are fastened with the touch of fingers. If the dough sticks to your hands, then they must be dipped in flour.
- There is another way to cook dumplings. A large circle 3 mm thick is rolled out from a piece of dough with a rolling pin. Then they take a glass or a glass with thin edges and squeeze, as in a pattern, small identical circles. In the middle of each put mashed potatoes with mushrooms and fix by pressing the edges.
Boiling dumplings with mushrooms
Modeling dumplings takes most of the time when preparing this dish. Therefore, usually family members sculpt dumplings together all together. If you will immediately serve this dish on the table, then you need to put a pot of water on the fire and bring it to a boil. Then you need to salt the water and throw the dumplings into boiling water. Be sure to stir them so that they do not stick together.
After boiling, they boil for 5-6 minutes. Willingness can be understood by appearance - all dumplings should float to the surface. If in doubt, you can get one dumpling and cut it in the area of the dough. If the dough is boiled and flour is not visible, then the dish is ready. The fire turns off and the dumplings merge through a colander.
How to serve dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms
After filtering, dumplings must be seasoned immediately, so that after cooling they do not stick together. To do this, you can sprinkle them with vegetable oil, pour melted cream or fry with onions. To do this, the onion is peeled, washed under wastewater. Then, on a cutting board, it is cut into small cubes and everything is sent to a preheated pan with a small amount of vegetable oil.
Often stirring, you need to bring the onion to a golden color. After cooking, this composition is watered dumplings made with potatoes and mushrooms. Such frying is also used for meat dumplings or with liver.
Conclusion
The article tells how to cook everyone’s favorite dish - dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms with photos, step-by-step instructions. This work, although quite time-consuming, but you must admit that homemade dumplings can not even be compared with purchased ones. All family members and guests will appreciate your efforts and eat up to the last dumpling. But is this not praise for a good housewife!