Dumplings with salmon is a completely normal culinary phenomenon. Even if you have never before encountered such a delicacy. You can cook them at home. We will gladly share the recipes for such dumplings with you in this article.
Salmon Recipe
The most ordinary recipe can be transformed if, instead of the usual, cook dumplings with salmon, reviews of which from time to time are extremely admired. To create them you will need:
- wheat flour - 0.5 kg;
- clean, drinking water - 0.2 l;
- chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- salmon - 0.5 kg;
- cream (preferably 33%) - 50 ml;
- onions - 1 pc.;
- salt - 1 tsp;
- other spices to taste.
First you need to cook the dough. To do this, combine warm water with flour, egg and salt. Knead with your hands until a homogeneous, elastic mass is obtained, which we send to the refrigerator for at least half an hour.
After this, the salmon fillet is completely removed from bones and skin, add cream, spices and a little salt to it, as well as pre-passaged and cooled onions. Seasonings such as oregano or white pepper are great for fish. We take out the dough from the refrigerator and roll out a thin layer. About one teaspoon of the filling goes into each dumpling.
You need to cook them for about three minutes after boiling water. The finished dish can be decorated with a small amount of red caviar and dill.
Colored dumplings
Not only the filling in dumplings with salmon, the recipes of which we are studying, can be made unusual. The dough itself may also have an unusual appearance. For example, you can cook them in green. To do this, you need the following products:
- several large bunches of parsley;
- flour - 500 g;
- 1 egg
- salt - 1 tsp;
- salmon or sturgeon fillet - 450 g;
- 1 onion;
- salt and spices for dough and minced meat;
- butter - 10 g.
To create a green dough, you need to chop the parsley in a blender to a puree condition, adding a couple of tablespoons of water to it. The resulting mass is mixed with flour, egg and salt, creating a dough. When everything has the necessary uniformity, remove the dough in the refrigerator and at the same time prepare the minced meat.
We cut raw, fish fillet and mix with spices and salt. Add onion to it, sliced in a very small cube. Pour all this with lemon juice and mix. Stuffing will take several minutes to soak in the aroma of lemon and seasonings. After that, you can start making dumplings with salmon, a recipe with a photo of which will be a real decoration of your home cookbook. Cooking them is about 5 minutes after boiling, and a small piece of butter will be an excellent addition to a hot dish of an unusual color.
Variety of fillings
You can cook fish dumplings by adding to them other, more unusual ingredients. For example, cream cheese and mushrooms will go well with red fish. For this dish you will need to prepare:
- flour - 0.5 kg;
- cream cheese - 100 g;
- salmon - 250 g;
- fresh champignons or oyster mushrooms - 150 g;
- milk - 1 tbsp .;
- fresh greens - 1 bunch;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- frying oil;
- salt - 1 tsp.
Knead the dough from milk, flour and salt, then send it to cool. At this time, chop the onion together with mushrooms and leave to cool. Cut the salmon into cubes and mix with cream cheese and herbs. Add the cooled mushrooms there, and mix well.
Now we sculpt the dumplings with salmon themselves, giving them any shape that seems most appetizing to you. It can be a standard form of dumplings or in the form of a crescent, more like a dumpling. After this, it remains only to cook them, sending for 4-5 minutes in boiling water and can be served, decorated with fresh herbs.
Other cooking methods
Any fish dumplings, the recipes of which you just learned, can be prepared in a mass of other ways, except for conventional cooking.
For example, if you cook them literally a minute less than the prescribed time, and then lower them into deep fat and fry until golden, then the dumplings will acquire a completely new taste. Such a dish can be a great snack for a large company. You can bake our fish delicacy in a pot, adding only sour cream or cream. Do not be afraid to show imagination!
And most importantly, these dumplings, like regular meat dumplings, perfectly tolerate freezing and can be stored in your refrigerator for months. But after the first defrosting, it is better not to cool them again. Otherwise, they may lose their unique taste, and more importantly, beneficial properties.