Do you think that dumplings can only be boiled, and then served by splashing a little broth and vinegar on a plate or seasoning them with butter and sour cream? You are mistaken. Folk culinary fantasy has found many ways to serve Russian dishes. And one of them is baking in the oven. This can be done with finished (cooked) products. Or, if you are not sure about the quality of the purchased dumplings, bake them raw. In this article, we have prepared for you a selection of interesting and proven recipes with photos. Dumplings baked in the oven are very tasty under a cheese cap, under a lid of dough, with vegetables, mushrooms, eggs, ham, under milk, sour cream sauce, under mayonnaise. We assure you: from an everyday dish, if you try, you can create a real culinary masterpiece.
Oven-Baked Dumplings: A Step-by-Step Recipe
If you are constantly in a hurry and you don’t have time to make smarts at the stove for a long time, you will like this cooking method very much. After all, you don’t even have to cook dumplings!
Instruction:
First step. Finely chop two onions and fry in butter.
The second step: we mix 400 grams of sour cream of 15% fat with spices, salt, squeezed through a press with a clove of garlic and chopped herbs (several branches are enough). Add the fried onions. Mix the sauce well.
Step Three: Three hundred grams of hard cheese. Lubricate the baking dish (or pan) with sunflower oil. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
The final stage of preparation: we get a half-kilogram pack of frozen dumplings (raw). Quickly pour them into the mold. Pour the prepared sauce. Sprinkle with grated cheese on top. Dumplings baked in the oven will be ready in half an hour. The secret of their preparation is simple - products are simply boiled, but not in water, but in sauce.
Second basic recipe
Now consider the situation when you have cooked dumplings, but did not calculate your strength in eating them. What to do with the remaining products? Do not rush to feed their dog. After all, you can cook oven-baked dumplings with cheese. The recipe for this dish is simple and unsophisticated. If you want to make a festive option, add mushrooms. You can take both fresh and pickled champignons, mushrooms, butter, chanterelles. Peel and cut 450 grams of mushrooms. If they are pickled or salted, reduce their number to 350 g.
In a bowl, carefully knead a glass of cream of 30 percent fat, 100 milliliters of sour cream and mayonnaise. Squeeze out there through a press four cloves of garlic. Separately chop the onion with thin rings. Lubricate the form with butter. At the bottom we put boiled dumplings. Place mushrooms on top, cover them with onion rings. Pour the sauce - and into the oven. Bake dumplings for about half an hour at 180 degrees. Three cheese - the more, the tastier the dish. Five minutes before the end of cooking, pull out the form. We cover the surface of the dish with a cheese cap. We send to melt and brown.
Original Ural dumplings
The recipe for this dish also involves the use of finished products. A kilogram of boiled dumplings is placed in a greased form with a vegetable oil or a baking sheet with high sides. We clean and chop one onion. In a pan, melt a soup spoon of butter. Fry the onion until golden brown. Two hundred grams of ham is cut into small cubes. Grind two bell peppers of different colors in the same way. Mix sour cream (300 g) with dill, salt and spices. On the dumplings, lay the onion in layers, then the peppers and finally the ham. Pour the sauce. We put the form in a preheated oven to 200 degrees. While they are baked, three hundred grams of hard cheese. After 25 minutes, pull out the form. Sprinkle grated cheese dumplings in the oven. Cook at the same temperature for another five minutes. Serve with sour cream.
Dumplings for breakfast
The above recipe is good when we have enough cooked items. And if after yesterday's dinner there are only a few dumplings left? Let's make a delicious omelet with them. Mix three tablespoons of milk with two eggs. Do not forget about salt and spices. Add one tablespoon of melted butter. Pour the resulting mass into the pan. Fry the omelet on both sides. Put it in shape. If your pan has a removable handle, you can leave an omelet in it. Put boiled dumplings on one half of the egg circle. Baked in the oven, they will dry out if they are not covered. Therefore, we bend the omelette circle in half. Sprinkle the resulting “crescent” with a pinch of black pepper and grated cheese (one hundred grams). We put in the oven and bake for five minutes at 200 degrees. Serve the dish with sour cream, sprinkled with a green onion.
Very hearty dumplings
Most often, products, especially raw ones, are poured with liquid sauce. Here we will look at how to bake dumplings in the oven with mayonnaise, and not with sour cream. The calories in this dish will increase at times, but the taste will be just amazing. First chop the onion finely. Hard cheese (about 150 grams) with three large chips. Passion onions in butter until golden. Pour it with 300 grams of mayonnaise. Add the sauce directly to the pan, let it warm up a little. Lubricate the baking sheet with vegetable oil. Lay out one layer of dumplings, distributing them evenly. This will be easy to do, since the recipe involves the use of a frozen raw product (half a kilo). Pour dumplings with mayonnaise. Sprinkle the surface of the dish with grated cheese. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Bake the product for about forty minutes. Variations are possible in this dish. You can add bell pepper, pickled cucumbers to the recipe. To be sure one hundred percent that the dumplings are baked until cooked, you can dilute mayonnaise with sour cream in equal proportions.
Microwave Cooking
Above, we saw how easy and simple it is to bake dumplings in the oven. This recipe can also be applied if your apartment has a microwave instead of a regular stove. But then the form in which dumplings with cheese will be baked should be appropriate. Lubricate it with vegetable oil. We fall asleep frozen raw dumplings. Pour the sauce, prepared by mixing in equal proportions of sour cream and mayonnaise, with the addition of a fried onion squeezed through a garlic press and a small portion of Dijon mustard. Salt and season with spices. We will wipe the cheese in advance, but for now we will not add it to the dish. First, turn on the microwave oven in Defrost mode for 6 minutes. Then we will transfer the unit to the highest power (900-1000 W). Set the timer for five minutes. Reduce the power to medium. Let the dumplings be baked for another 10 minutes or even a quarter of an hour. Cooking time largely depends on the workload of the form and power of the apparatus.
Pot dumplings baked in the oven
Previous recipes have always provided for the use of a special wide form, pan or pan with high edges. Next, we will consider a method of baking products in pots. Are there any specifics in the preparation? Of course! Firstly, in pots you can not bake raw dumplings. They just stick together. Secondly, the pots should always be put in a cold oven, because ceramics may crack due to temperature differences. You should also make sure that the dishes do not touch the walls of the oven. Thirdly, even if we bake cooked or fried dumplings, it is necessary to add liquid to the pots. Then, inside the dishes, the desired temperature regime will be established. So that the dumplings baked in the oven do not burn, the pots need to be covered with something. And it can be not only grated cheese. There are recipes that describe how to make a fresh dough for the original cover. Pull the pots from the oven ahead of time, ten minutes before the end of the cooking process. The dish itself comes at the expense of residual heat. Now let's move on to individual recipes.
In creamy sauce
Heat the water with salt. When it boils, we throw dumplings there. Cook literally 3-4 minutes. Products must be damp. Quickly catch them with a slotted spoon and lay out ten pieces or a dozen in pots. Pour a glass of milk into a separate container, drive four eggs into it, add eight tablespoons of fat sour cream. Beat with a whisk. This sauce is evenly poured into pots. In each we also put a piece of butter. You can make such dumplings "under the hat." For this, three hundred grams of hard cheese. Sprinkle the neck of the pots. Lower the ceramic lids. We put the pots in a cold oven away from the walls and at some distance from each other. Turn on the oven 200 degrees. After half an hour, remove the lids from the pots. So baked in the oven dumplings with cheese will get a delicious ruddy crust.
Taiga
You need to cook a little kilogram of dumplings. Arrange them in pots. In a deep frying pan, fry the finely chopped onion. We clean the liver (preferably beef, but also chicken) from the films and cut into pieces. When the onion is gilded, add the liver to it. Scale tomatoes (3-4 pieces) with boiling water, peel them, finely chop the flesh. Pour half a glass of sour cream into the pan, add tomatoes, spices and salt. Stew the sauce until the liver is ready. Pour them dumplings in pots. You can lower the ceramic lids, or you can roll out the fresh dough and stick them around the neck of the dishes. In the latter case, it must be pricked with a fork to release steam. The dough will protect the oven-baked dumplings with tomatoes from drying out. And the resulting cake can be smeared with butter and eat in the bite with the main course. If instead of fresh tomatoes you use tomato paste, you get dumplings in pots in the Amur style. Cooked products can also be baked directly in the pan.
With mushrooms, “royally”
Cook for 3-4 minutes. Lard (50 grams) is cut into small cubes, melted cracklings. In this fat, fry until cooked 200 grams of peeled mushrooms (preferably white or champignon). We shift them together with cracklings into a bowl, and their place in the pan is inferior to slightly boiled dumplings. If necessary, add vegetable oil. Fry the dumplings until the dough is covered with a golden brown. We lubricate each pot with sunflower oil from the inside. This is necessary so that the dumplings baked in the oven in sour cream do not stick to the walls. The bottom of the dishes can also be sprinkled with breadcrumbs. We spread the “royal” dish in layers: mushroom roast, sour cream, dumplings. Repeat the alternation of layers. Sprinkle generously with grated cheese on top. Put the pots in the oven. Turn it on 200 degrees. Bake for half an hour.
With broth
This dish can be qualified as a soup with original meatballs. First, cook until tender the fragrant broth - chicken, beef. It should be already salted and with spices. Lighten it with protein or strain through several layers of gauze, so that the liquid becomes transparent, amber. Roll out the unleavened dough. Turn on the oven 200 degrees. Since the pots will be filled with hot liquid, they will not burst from the temperature difference in the furnace. Bring the broth again to a boil. We get the frozen dumplings. We arrange them in pots. Pour in the broth - to the "hangers" of the dishes. We quickly plug holes with dough, do not forget to pierce it with a fork in several places. Put the pots in the oven. Tomim there for at least 30 minutes. There is a variation of this dish. If you want to get the second, not soup, fill in the pots half the broth. Cover the dishes with ceramic lids. In this case, you can cook in the oven baked dumplings with cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms and other ingredients that are added to the pots on top.