Dumplings - popularly favorite dish. His true connoisseurs continue to cook dumplings on their own, being convinced that the store goods are not that. This desire is very commendable. The main thing is that home cooks choose the right seasoning for ravioli. She can make the dish a real masterpiece. And maybe hopelessly ruin it.
Stuffing for dumplings: a classic recipe
If you really want classics, you will need beef (and preferably veal) and fatty pork in equal proportions. Of the additional ingredients - onions (at least two large heads per kilogram of meat) and a few ice cubes. As for seasonings for ravioli, in the classic recipe it is recommended to limit yourself to salt and ground pepper. Food lovers can take a mixture of peppers.
Turn the onion with meat twice through a meat grinder, salt, pepper and mix. Stuff the mince with foil and put the bowl in the refrigerator for about a third of an hour. Then add crushed ice, mix again and start sculpting.
Updates, additions and versions
Ice is introduced into the minced meat to give it airiness. If you do not want to wait until it melts, replace the cubes with a few tablespoons of very cold water. Some housewives, for greater splendor of the mass, inject milk into it. Dumplings with the addition of oil are very tasty. But the process of their preparation is very painstaking: a piece of oil must be put in each dumpling.
Interesting offers
However, only pepper is still not quite what cooks are prepared to limit themselves to. So what seasonings in minced meat for dumplings, besides it, can still be used?
Ground nutmeg with dried and grated dill is considered a universal set of spices for this dish. Of course, with the addition of salt and pepper.
If you want a brighter taste, combine black, white and allspice (it is better to grind yourself), add a little red hot pepper and cayenne to the mixture to taste. As a base, you can use ginger, turmeric or Suneli hops, depending on your taste preferences. The resulting set of peppers is added to the database. After mixing all the spices, they can season the minced meat.
To improve the taste
When choosing a seasoning for dumplings, you must always consider what their filling is made of. So, purely in ground beef it is not recommended to add many different spices, just pepper is enough. However, if you add fresh onion juice to it, then the dumplings will turn out more delicious.
The seasoning for chicken dumplings should be “hot” so that the rather lean taste becomes more saturated. In such a dish, turmeric and mustard are appropriate.
If you managed to get game for dumplings, you need to season the minced meat with thyme and sage.
The lamb filling will be seasoned correctly with a mixture of black pepper and sumac.
But pork is in harmony with almost any spices.
Original ideas
As a seasoning for minced meat, you can use grated vegetables - horseradish, cabbage leaves, radish, raw potatoes, zucchini. They say that the taste becomes richer, and the filling itself - more magnificent and tender. Some culinary experts advise adding a little sugar to any set of spices. They claim that in his presence the taste and aromatic notes reveal brighter.
If you like Asian motifs, use zira and barberry. Only more careful not to interrupt the taste of meat.
Universal set
Understanding which seasonings are added to dumplings, we will not forget that it is possible to improve the taste of a dish and flavor it not only at the stage of making minced meat, but also at later stages. For example, when cooking. Salt becomes the basis for such a seasoning, so if you decide to use it, when mixing dough and cooking minced meat, add a minimum of this component to them. A pinch of coriander, basil, marjoram, laurel, parsnip, garlic and nutmeg is added to the salt. You can increase the list of components due to peppers. After mixing the ingredients with a small dose of seasoning, the broth or boiling water in which you are going to cook dumplings is flavored.
Well, if spices are contraindicated for any member of the family, you can enrich the taste when serving, having prepared a fragrant sauce. For example, sour cream with mayonnaise, grated cheese, pickled cucumber and spicy greens. Or from the same base, but flavored with Chili sauce, mustard, soy sauce and vinegar. And you can chop salted saffron mushrooms or mushrooms, mix with sour cream and enjoy the result of combining the sauce with dumplings.
If you do not like sour cream sauces, try an alternative. For it, you need to combine two tablespoons of rice vinegar (it is not so difficult to find) with six tablespoons of olive oil, four soy sauce, three chopped fresh cilantro and one pickled ginger. According to culinary experts, even the most successful dumplings are perfectly used for such dressing.
However, your favorite national dish is quite democratic and will harmonize with a variety of additions.