Semi-finished products greatly facilitate the life of the hostess, with their help you can quickly cook a tasty and satisfying dish. Dumplings are especially loved by many - frozen pieces of meat in the dough. But sometimes it happens that this product is not at all happy with its appearance. Surely every housewife got into such a situation when the dumplings stuck together. What to do in this case, not everyone knows. Some throw away a spoiled product, considering it unsuitable for food. But in fact, even from sticky dumplings you can cook a delicious dish.
Description of the problem
Many fell into such a situation when the purchased dumplings for some reason melted and stuck together. This can happen if you get to the house from the store for a long time, if you forget to put the purchased product in the refrigerator, or if the house has power outages. At the same time, the dumplings stick together so that it is impossible to separate them without damaging them. Often they represent one continuous lump. It is impossible to cook such a product, since it turns out to be a jail with separate pieces of meat and pieces of dough. Many people throw such a product, because not everyone knows what to do if the dumplings have melted and stick together.
Sometimes it also happens that this product sticks together during freezing. Most often this happens with homemade dumplings or in violation of the technology for their manufacture. At the same time, cooking them is also normally impossible, since when the dumplings are separated from each other, they break, damage each other. If you cook such dumplings, they will inevitably fall apart. Therefore, it is not recommended to separate them by force if the dumplings stick together.
What to do to prevent it
A properly prepared, frozen and cooked product always looks as it should. Therefore, in order not to think about what to do if dumplings stick together, you need to know some subtleties. Most often, this dish is bought at a store already ready. In this case, you need to pay attention to a quality product. When cooking cheap dumplings, the technology of freezing can be disrupted, so it is they that most often stick together.
If this dish is prepared independently at home, you need to follow a few rules:
- after sculpting, sprinkle them with flour and let lie a little in the air;
- they should not be placed in the freezer, not in a package, but on a board or baking sheet, stacked with a small distance from each other;
- it is best to freeze them quickly, then they will not have time to soak in moisture.
If you follow all these rules when cooking, then you won’t have to suffer because the dumplings stick together. What can be done can then be solved, but it is better to prevent the problem, than to look for a solution later.
How to cook
Sometimes even properly frozen product sticks together due to a breach of cooking rules. You need to cook dumplings in boiling, salted water. Salt helps to fix the dough, make it less sticky. If you throw dumplings just in hot, or even less in cold water, they will stick together. In addition, they must be frozen in the water, they must not be thawed beforehand, otherwise they will stick together in the pan. After cooking, it is necessary to add sauce to dumplings: butter, sour cream, mayonnaise. Then after cooling, they do not stick together.
Is it possible to save such a product
Many do not know what to do if dumplings stick together in a pile. Trying to separate them, they fail, because they get unsightly torn dough and individual pieces of meat. Sometimes a sour product can not even be scraped off the packaging. But do not be upset if the dumplings stick together. You can find out what to do with such a dish from experienced hostesses. They are not recommended to be frozen again, on the contrary, you need to completely defrost them, then you can cut them into pieces and fry them. As an option, many suggest scrolling through the thawed mass in a meat grinder, add onions, spices and fry cutlets. If you don’t add anything, but just fry it, you get navy pasta. From this dish you can also make a filling for pies, baked pie with eggs and cheese, and even pizza.
What to do with sticky frozen dumplings
Sometimes, in violation of the rules of freezing, dumplings stick together in the freezer. It turns out a frozen lump, from which it is impossible to tear a single dumpling. It is useless to defrost it, as they will not stick out. Although you can defrost and cook something, for example, fry or bake. Therefore, do not despair if the dumplings stuck together in the freezer. What to do, you can find out from experienced housewives or people who managed to cope with this problem. There are several options for such dishes.
- If the dumplings in a frozen coma have not lost much shape, you can try to cook them. To do this, put a lump in boiling water. Salt it and preferably add a little oil. Then, during cooking, carefully try to separate the dumplings from each other with two spoons.
- It is also easy to make a casserole. It is necessary to defrost a slightly damaged dish, then cut it into pieces. Place them in a greased baking sheet. Top with mushrooms, tomatoes or other vegetables to taste. Beat 3 eggs separately with milk, salt and spices. Pour the cooked foods, sprinkle with grated cheese on top and put in the oven.
- You can also make a pie. To do this, lightly fry the frozen lump of dough with meat in a pan. This is necessary to evaporate excess moisture. Then lay the resulting product on a baking sheet, oiled, grease with mayonnaise and put in the oven. You can sprinkle cheese on top.
Dumplings pizza
One of the most delicious dishes from such a spoiled product is pizza. And those who have tried it, they say that it turns out very tasty. Some even deliberately defrost a bag of ravioli to make such pizza. And cooking it is easy. It is necessary to roll the sticky dumplings with a rolling pin, sprinkling a little flour. The thickness should be 1-1.5 cm. Then put this layer on a baking sheet and grease with ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard or other sauce to taste. Lay on top ham, mushrooms, meat. Then - tomatoes, onion rings, bell pepper, all to taste. Sprinkle with grated cheese and put in the oven. Bake pizza for about half an hour over low heat. Alternatively pizza you can make roll. It is being prepared in much the same way, only it is necessary to bake not in the open form, but to roll it into a roll.
How to fry sticky dumplings
Many do not want to bother with the oven and believe that it is easier to simply fry such a product. You can fry a frozen lump, gradually separating the dumplings from each other, then when they pour the sauce, it will not be noticeable that some are damaged. But it is best to completely thaw the resulting lump, roll it into a thin layer and cut into pieces. You will get peculiar pies in which the filling will be not only inside, but also outside. Moreover, such a rolled seam can be frozen again and used for frying as necessary.