Many love dumplings, but not many love and know how to cook them. Basically, the time during which the dumplings are sculpted is scary - this does not happen very quickly. But any dumplings are eaten very soon. What to do in the case when I really wanted to try a portion of dumplings, but there is no time (or no desire) to breed cooking in the kitchen about this. The solution is usually in any situation. Laziness is not in vain called the "engine of progress", if there were no laziness on the planet, then there would not be a dish now that can replace ordinary dumplings. Instead of standard full-fledged dumplings, it is quite possible to treat yourself to a simplified variation of this dish. Simply does not mean tasteless.
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Lazy dumplings - this is the name of the dish that we will cook today. And they have their own fans. By the way, they will not be quite familiar: consider options for recipes for preparing lazy dumplings without eggs. We will also study a recipe in which cottage cheese is not required for a dish. At the same time, we learn how to cook them from potatoes, with the addition of cheese.
Egg-free dish
When may it be necessary to prepare dishes without an egg? Is it possible to make lazy dumplings without this ingredient at all? Will the finished dish fall apart and spoil the whole mood? The answer is one - you can! Nothing will go bad and fall apart. Many people use only formulations that do not contain an egg, due to the fact that they have an allergic reaction to this product.
For whom the recipes will be useful
Lazy dumplings without eggs often appear on the dining table of such sensitive people. Accordingly, if there are already many dozens, or even hundreds, years of recipes, they have proved themselves in the best way and have become a constant and familiar compound dish of their family dinner.
The absence of this ingredient in the cooking process may be more commonplace - they forgot to buy eggs upon returning home.
For vegans
Adherents of vegetarian cuisine, most likely, will also be able to evaluate the recipe for lazy dumplings without eggs from cottage cheese, using new ingredients. Dumplings can be made not only with cottage cheese, with the addition of semolina or mashed potatoes - they also turn out quite tasty. But let's start, perhaps, our culinary experiments with the classic recipe for cooking.
With cottage cheese
Before preparing lazy dumplings from cottage cheese without eggs, look around your cabinets and refrigerator for the following ingredients:
- 700 grams of cottage cheese. The curd product is also great.
- Flour - 200 grams. It may take a little less, or vice versa, a larger amount, it will depend on the stickiness of the flour.
- Salt and sugar are added to taste.
Cooking process
Choose a pan for cooking dumplings correctly: the pan itself should be half full of water. During cooking, a supply will be necessary so that the water with dumplings during filling does not come too close to the edge of the pan.
Fill the pan with water and salt it, place it on the stove. While waiting for boiling, do not waste your time and begin to implement the recipe for lazy dumplings without eggs.
Mash the cottage cheese in a bowl. It will be convenient to do this with a fork. While cooking the curd, add a pinch of salt and sugar to taste.
In small portions, gradually add flour to the curd and mix the ingredients. You should get a fairly strong, but very plastic mass, from which the dumplings will consist.
How to Form Lazy Dumplings
When the dough becomes what we need, roll it into a sausage, on a chopping surface with pre-dusted flour. Two to three centimeters in diameter will be enough so that the dumplings after cooking are not too small and not very huge. Due to their diameter, they will boil to the very middle and will not be damp inside.
The second step in the formation of lazy dumplings without an egg will be the separation of the obtained roller from the dough into pieces with a length of 1 centimeter.
Cook dumplings
The water in the pan had already begun to boil by this time, and this is the time to put all the prepared workpieces into boiling water. Gently dip them in boiling water so that the spray does not harm you. When all the semi-finished products are in boiling water, mix them with a slotted spoon, separating them from the bottom of the dishes to avoid burning.
After four to five minutes, lazy dumplings without eggs will float to the surface of the pan - this is a sign that you can taste the dish. Using a slotted spoon, we remove all products from the pan and serve to the table, watering with vegetable oil. Butter is perfect for serving any kind of lazy dumplings. If the dish was prepared with sugar, you can safely use jam, jam or honey.
Lazy dumplings with cheese and potatoes
Such dumplings are not only tasty, they are a very successful way to rehabilitate mashed potatoes left over from lunch yesterday.
To make unsweetened lazy dumplings without eggs, we need:
- mashed potatoes - one kilogram;
- flour - 300 grams;
- cheese - 100 grams;
- salt and pepper to taste.
How to cook
Rub the cheese on a fine grater and mix it with mashed potatoes. If necessary, add salt and pepper. Stirring gradually, introduce the flour in small portions. Distribute the flour carefully to avoid the appearance of tasteless flour lumps.
The resulting plastic dough is transformed into a bundle with a diameter of one or two centimeters. We cut the tourniquet into many parts, the length of which is approximately - 1 centimeter. Each resulting semi-finished product is carefully rolled in flour.
In a saucepan, boil water, salt it and put our dumplings in boiling water. We make sure that they are not cramped in the pan, and they all do not stick together in a solid lump.
Hold them in moderately boiling water for a minute, after all the lazy dumplings without eggs are on the surface of the water.
We take out the prepared dumplings with a slotted spoon on plates and serve with butter or sour cream. You can also add fried onions to the finished dish. Such dumplings go well with pickled vegetables and all kinds of savory sauces.
With cottage cheese and semolina
Thanks to the semolina and starch, which are part of the dough for these dumplings, the dish has a delicate airy texture and a rather interesting taste. Such lazy dumplings will be a great dessert if you cook them.
For this you need the following products:
- two hundred and fifty grams of cottage cheese;
- semolina - forty grams;
- sugar - 1-2 tablespoons;
- three quarters of a tablespoon of starch;
- half a teaspoon of salt.
And as in all previous cases, first we fill the pan with water (1 liter) and place it on the stove so that the water boils. Also do not forget to salt water for dumplings. While the water reaches, we will prepare a plastic base for lazy dumplings.
Finely chop the cottage cheese with a blender or wipe it through a sieve. In a deep bowl, mix the cottage cheese, salt and sugar. Add starch to the mixture and introduce all the semolina specified in the recipe. After the introduction of these ingredients, the dough will become dense and can be kneaded by hand.
We pluck the dough from the general layer. Roll a ball with a diameter of one and a half centimeters from a piece and place the ball on a board sprinkled with flour. We continue the action until the whole norm of the test turns into neat identical balls.
Most likely, by the end of this lesson, the water began to boil, and it was time to start preparing the lazy dumplings from semolina and cottage cheese, namely, boil them in boiling water.
We pour the balls from the dough into the pan and, using a slotted spoon or spatula, separate them from the bottom of the pan so that they do not stick. You need to cook the dumplings over moderate heat. As soon as they rise to the surface, we wait two or three minutes and take out on a plate. This can be done in two ways: use a slotted spoon or simply drain the water from the pan. You can serve the finished dish with melted butter, with condensed milk, with confiture and other sweet additives.