Well, how not to love dumplings, is this an old dish of our native Russian cuisine? It can be served on weekdays, and for a festive feast, and with mustard, and with sour cream, and with mayonnaise, and with any other sauce. Due to the huge assortment of ready-made dumplings on store shelves, today the tradition of sculpting them with your own hands, having gathered in the family circle, has almost sunk into oblivion. And in vain. After all, you can cook minced meat for dumplings in a wide variety of variations, which are hardly used in factory semi-finished products. Yes, and nothing is able to unite family life with all its problems, as one thing done together. Everyone, small to large, can participate in the friendly preparation of ravioli - everyone will find a way to contribute. Well, this article will still be devoted to how to cook minced meat for dumplings.
Minced meat
Recipe 1. Dumplings with traditional filling of pork and beef
Rinse beef (200 g) and pork (350 g) and roll a couple of times in a meat grinder. Now add the egg, salt and pepper to taste. Stir the minced meat thoroughly to make it homogeneous.
Recipe 2. Dumplings stuffed with lamb
Rinse fatty mutton (600 g), peel it off the fillet and chop it very finely (as for cooking samsa). Do the same with onions (200 g) and potatoes (100 g). Mix the ingredients and add softened butter (50 g) to them. Add salt to the dumplings to taste, season with black pepper (5 g) and ground ginger (5 g).
Recipe 3. Dumplings stuffed with bacon and sauerkraut
Finely chop 300 g of bacon (fat without meat veins), onions (150 g) and sauerkraut (200 g). You can grind all these ingredients through a meat grinder. Add 1 egg squeezed garlic (3 g) into the minced meat, salt and pepper, mix.
Stuffing for dumplings from birds
Recipe 1. Dumplings with filling and chicken
Chicken fillet (500 g) through a meat grinder, scroll 2 times, pour in milk (120 ml), salt and pepper. You can season the Suneli hops or another favorite seasoning for poultry meat. Chop onions (100 g) finely chop and fry in a skillet in oil (only not on vegetable, but on cream), let cool. Combine poultry and minced chicken.
Recipe 2. Dumplings stuffed with chicken and mushrooms
Peel, rinse, boil fresh mushrooms (300 g) until half cooked, dry and chop finely. Sauté the mushrooms and finely chopped onions (100 g) in vegetable oil. At the very end of the frying, add finely chopped chicken fillet (300 g) to the pan. Salt the minced meat, season with chopped fresh ginger (5 g) and ground black pepper (3 g). Knead the filling thoroughly until it is mashed.
Stuffing for fish dumplings
You will need 700 g of low-bone freshwater fish (catfish or pike perch, for example), which should be minced with a meat grinder along with three small onions and stale white bread (50 g) soaked in milk or cream. Salt and pepper to taste.
Stuffing for vegetarian dumplings (without meat)
Dumplings with curd cheese filling. Put in a bowl 200 g of cottage cheese (fresh), grated Parmesan (60 g), chopped processed cheese (60 g). Drive an egg here, add olive oil (25 ml), ground black pepper (4 g). Salt to taste and mix the ingredients.
How to make stuffing for mushroom dumplings
Recipe 1. Dumplings stuffed with mushrooms
Clean and wash the mushrooms (400 g). Finely chop the mushrooms, as well as 120 g of onions and fry a little in a pan with vegetable oil. Mix the chilled mushroom mass with grated hard cheese (100 g), chopped garlic (5 g), salt and season with black ground pepper (3 g).
Recipe 2. Dumplings stuffed with rice and dried mushrooms
Boil rice until half-cooked - you need 150 g to fill it. Soak dried mushrooms (100 g), rinse, boil and drop in a colander, and when the water drains, finely chop 50 g of onion. Lightly fry the mushrooms and onions. When the frying has cooled, mix it with rice, salt, add black ground pepper (3 g) and ground coriander (2 g).