Which dough product will be equally appropriate on the dining table, as well as for a delicious dinner? What dish does not require virtuosic culinary skills and rare products? What famous dough product does not cease to amaze with its taste and variety of recipes? Perhaps you still guessed - this is a well-known dumpling. They are often called both knels and dumplings.
Universal dumplings
To some extent, dumplings are a very unique product. He is known and loved by many. Such dough products can be added to soup, or can be consumed with broth. Also, various fillers are often introduced into the composition of flour dumplings: cheese, cottage cheese, meat, semolina. Depending on these additives, dumplings are used with potatoes or even in sweet foods.
Lean dumplings. How to cook?
The most popular and inexpensive dumpling recipe is when 1 egg is mixed with half a glass of water. Then, slightly salted, thicken with 5-7 tablespoons of flour. The dough will turn out such a consistency as for pancakes. To prepare this option, you need to add the resulting dough to a practically ready soup with a spoon. You can also cook these dumplings in a simple broth, and eat later, seasoning with your favorite sauce, as an independent dish. In both variations, this versatile dumpling recipe will be perfect.
Often, housewives cook another type of dumpling. They turn out to be no less tasty and equally inexpensive on a budget.
The simplest recipe for dumplings from semolina
Beat an egg with a pinch of salt with a fork and add about half a glass of dry semolina to it. Stir the semolina with the egg. It should be a dough like a sticky semolina. These dumplings are added when the soup is cooked in meat broth. Take a little dough for a teaspoon (about half a spoon) and dip in portions into the broth. Products cook for about 8 minutes. Their readiness is easy to identify - as soon as the dumplings climbed up - they are ready.
Sweet semolina dumplings
Semolina dumplings can be a sweet dessert dish. So that you can verify this personally - catch the recipe with nuts.
Products needed for cooking:
- Semka - 70 grams.
- Hazelnuts or pine nuts - 150 grams.
- Cream or milk with high fat content - approximately 200 milliliters.
- 3 eggs.
- Sugar - 2 tablespoons.
Cooking:
Beat the yolks and sugar thoroughly and add chopped or crushed nuts to this mixture. Beat the mass of nuts again - to a malleable state. Pour milk and pour semolina to it. Semolina in milk-egg mixture should be mixed well. In this form, let the dumpling dough stand for about 25 minutes. Now beat the remaining proteins and introduce them into the semolina. The resulting dough allows you to give semolina dumplings any shape. Or you can just roll the balls and cook them in salted boiling water. The dish is served with sweet sauce, with condensed milk or sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Cheese Dumplings
This dumpling recipe will appeal to cheese lovers. You need to grind 150 grams of your favorite hard cheese with a grater. Add the egg to it and mix. Now add 3 tablespoons of flour - mix again. From the resulting mass we mold dumplings and cook them in boiling water. You can use cheese dumplings as an independent full-fledged dish, especially if you season them with fresh sour cream. Or you can just add them to the cooking soup.
What else you need to know about dumplings
- Most often, dumpling recipes imply that the products will be served on the table in a cooked form. But it turns out that dumplings can not only be cooked. They turn out no less tasty and when steamed. And if you cook and fry them in butter, you get a very beautiful and satisfying dish. Roasting in the oven as part of dishes with sauce also does not reduce the excellent taste of any dumplings.
- You can prepare dumplings for future use and freeze in a freezer. Only carry out freezing in portions - on a board or on a dish. And then pour the frozen dumplings into a plastic bag. Tie the bag tightly, and the next time you urgently want to enjoy these products, just boil the contents of the bag in boiling water.
- Before forming any dumplings, you need to remember - when they are boiled, they necessarily increase by about 2 times. Therefore, if you want to get neat dumplings - take a very small amount of dough.
- When you use a spoon to lay dumplings in water, the dough invariably sticks to the spoon. To prevent this trouble, dip a spoon in a bowl of clean, cold water each time you are about to take a serving of dough.