Dumplings have long been considered a dish of traditional Russian cuisine. Agree, they are a great option for a quick and satisfying dinner. But boiled or fried dumplings are already tired of the order. Sometimes you want something unusual, but at the same time tasty and satisfying. For such situations, we want to offer recipes for dumplings for the oven. They will become a hearty and original dinner prepared in haste.
Cooking dough for homemade dumplings
Of course, dumplings eat everything, but on the shelves of the store it can be difficult to find delicious and high-quality. Purchased products can never be compared to home ones. It’s not difficult to cook them. Stuffing can be chosen to your taste. It can be either meat, fish or mushroom. The main thing is to prepare the dough correctly. Then the dumplings baked in the oven will definitely please both you and your loved ones.
In order to prepare a tasty and soft dough, we need such products:
- 300 grams of wheat flour.
- 2 chicken eggs.
- 200 milliliters of warm water.
- Salt.
- Vegetable oil.
Sift flour on a table over a fine sieve. We make a small hole in it. In a separate glass, beat the eggs with salt and dilute with water, add a dessert spoon of vegetable oil. All mix well. Carefully pour the mixture into a depression in the flour. And gently, starting from the edges, knead a thick dough. We put it in the refrigerator for half an hour. Then you can roll out the dough and sculpt dumplings.
Cooking in the oven
In the photo, dumplings cooked in the oven always look very appetizing, they are covered with a delicate crisp. And their scent in real life is literally crazy. In order to cook them in a baked form with cheese, we need:
- 500 grams of homemade or store dumplings.
- 1 head of onion.
- 1 large carrot.
- 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise and sour cream.
- 3 cloves of garlic.
- 150 grams of hard cheese.
- Salt and spices, the amount we take to taste.
- Vegetable oil for frying.
In addition, you can prepare dill greens for decoration.
How to cook
Cooking baked dumplings with cheese in the oven is quite simple. The whole process will take you no more than one hour.
First you need to peel the vegetables. Finely chop the onion, and three carrots on a fine grater. Pass the garlic through a press or chop with a knife. Fry vegetables in vegetable oil. In this case, garlic should be put last, when the onions and carrots are almost ready. Excess oil must be drained.
Next, prepare the sauce. To do this, mix low-fat sour cream and any mayonnaise. Then add spices and other seasonings to taste. All mix well. Add a glass of boiled water to the resulting sauce. And again we mix everything until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
In the prepared form, spread the frozen dumplings. Top - vegetables, pour all the sauce. We put in the oven, covering the form with a sheet of foil.
Bake for about forty minutes at a temperature of 190-200 degrees. Then sprinkle them with grated cheese and put it in the oven again. When a golden crust begins to appear on the surface, you can get the dish. That's the whole recipe for dumplings in the oven.
Until they have cooled, sprinkle with chopped herbs.
Dumplings in a pot
Everyone knows what juicy and aromatic dishes are obtained that were prepared in pots. And their presentation always makes an impression and causes appetite. Using this method, you can cook many different dishes. No less tasty are baked dumplings in the oven in pots.
To prepare them, we need to prepare:
- Dumplings - about 450 grams.
- Fresh or frozen mushrooms (champignons, mushrooms or oyster mushrooms) 500 grams ;.
- 2 onion heads.
- Hard cheese, any grade, 100-150 grams.
- A small bunch of any greenery.
- Flavourless sunflower oil.
- Salt and spices to your taste.
Of course, you can take olive oil, the main thing is that it is odorless. Oil is essential for frying mushrooms.
How to cook
Cooking this recipe for pot dumplings in the oven will not be difficult, even if you use them for the first time. And such a dish will not take you much time. But it will provide a tasty and satisfying dinner, which you can not only feed your family, but also treat your loved ones.
Mushrooms must be washed, drain excess water from them. Next, cut them into small pieces and fry with chopped onions in sunflower oil. Salt and add your favorite seasonings and spices. If desired, you can add one tablespoon of low-fat sour cream or mayonnaise sauce to the mushrooms.
Next, let's dumplings. To do this, pour water into the pan and put it on the stove. When it boils, add a little salt, add bay leaf and dip the dumplings into it. After they emerge, they must be boiled for no more than three to four minutes.
Then put the mushrooms and dumplings fried with onions in a pot. Do not completely fill the pot. Leave some free space. Gently mix the contents. Sprinkle, not sparing, grated hard cheese. Then we cover the pots with a lid and put in the oven. Bake at 200 degrees for ten minutes.
Sprinkle the finished dish with chopped herbs and serve.
Choose a clay pot
If you decide to purchase a pot for your culinary masterpieces, then you should approach his choice very carefully.
Clay pots are considered one of the best. They can be either glazed, that is, shiny on the outside, or not. If you purchased the latter, then before the first use they must be soaked in cold water for ten to fifteen minutes.
Before buying, you should carefully examine the dishes. There should be no chips or cracks on it. The lid is also important. It should fit snugly to the neck of the pot.
But choose the design and volume at your discretion. They will not affect the taste of the prepared dishes.