How to make delicious holiday dumplings with a surprise? The meaning of the filling and the recipe for such a dish will be described in detail later.
general information
Surely each of us at least once in my life tried dumplings with a surprise. Their value is determined by the filling. Typically, such a dish is served in the Christmas season for the Old New Year. This is a long tradition that many Russian families adhere to.
As a classic filling for dumplings, you can use sweet cottage cheese, mashed boiled potatoes, seedless cherries and so on.
Making dumplings with a surprise
The value of the filling can be invented independently. However, there is a generally accepted list that most housewives use. Before presenting it to your attention, you need to tell how exactly this dish is prepared.
So, for the test we need:
- large egg - 2 pcs.;
- cooled boiled water - a full glass;
- light flour - about 4 glasses;
- vegetable oil without aroma - 4 full spoons;
- small sugar - dessert spoon;
- sea salt - a few pinches.
Kneading
There is nothing complicated in making dumplings with a surprise. Their value can also be composed independently.
First you need to knead a steep base. The egg should be broken into a deep container, and then add the cooled boiling water to it and beat well with a fork. Next, in the same dishes, pour vegetable oil without aroma, pour in small sugar and a few pinches of salt.
After all the described actions, add light flour to the egg mass, and knead the steep dough. To make it more elastic and supple, it is recommended to place it in a bag and keep it at room temperature for half an hour.
Choose a filling
Making dumplings with a surprise is very easy. The main thing at the same time is to choose a suitable filling that will appeal to all members of your family.
We recommend that you pay attention to the following products:
- mashed potatoes or mashed boiled tubers;
- seedless cherry in sugar;
- sweet curd (possible with raisins);
- any berries (fleshy), flavored with powder and so on.
To make the dumplings with a surprise tasty, the filling should be prepared in advance. If you decide to use potatoes as it, then you need to boil it, and then grate it or prepare mashed potatoes. If you want to make cottage cheese dumplings, then the fine-grained dairy product must be mixed with sugar. Similarly, it is recommended to prepare and seedless cherries. Moreover, the berries should be washed in advance and squeezed from excess juice.
Formation process
How to form New Year's dumplings with a surprise, the meaning of which is described below? There are many different ways to do this.
First of all, you need to roll the egg dough into a thin layer, and then cut it into circles, using a special round pastry knife or an ordinary glass. After that, place a small spoon of the filling in the center of the product and immediately jam the edges. Any form of dumplings can be given. Someone makes them in the form of a crescent, someone prefers to sculpt "ears", and someone comes up with their own options.
Another way to sculpt products
What other way can I make a New Year's surprise in the form of dumplings? If you do not want to roll out a steep egg base for a long time, then we suggest making semi-finished products by a different method. To do this, it is required to pinch off a small piece from the test and make a thin cake out of it by means of a rolling pin. Subsequently, a spoon of any filling should be similarly placed in the product and at its discretion to form a beautiful dumpling, strongly pinching the edges.
Adding a Surprise
How are dumplings or dumplings made with a surprise? The value of the filling may be different. The main thing is to use only edible ingredients. Indeed, in the case of adding rings, buttons and other solid objects, a festive meal can end in failure.
Before putting the surprise into the dough, it should be carefully processed. If it is a nut or any dried fruits, then they must be thoroughly washed and the stalks, peel, etc. should be removed.
In the process of adding such a filling, it is recommended to form dumplings in the same way as classical products. After all, if you make them more or, conversely, less, then the guest will immediately understand that there is some kind of sweetness inside, and, therefore, good wishes.
Heat treatment
Now you know how the New Year’s surprise is formed in the form of tasty and satisfying dumplings. If you made them in advance, then all the semi-finished products can be placed in the freezer and stored until the holiday comes.
If you made dumplings before guests arrived, it is recommended to boil them in slightly salted water. Spread the product in a strongly boiling liquid. Cook dumplings with a surprise and ordinary should be the same amount of time. The heat treatment process can take you about 7-9 minutes. During this time, the dumplings should be completely prepared, but not boiled.
Proper serving for the gala dinner
How to present dumplings with a surprise to the table? Decryption can be presented to guests, both before serving dinner, and after they come across an unusual snack.
As for the dish itself, after being subjected to heat treatment, all the dumplings should be carefully removed from boiling water using a slotted spoon and put in one common plate. Serving the finished dish for the festive dinner is recommended along with fresh and fat sour cream, honey, condensed milk or jam.
Dumplings with a surprise: decoding of the filling
As mentioned above, the mistress can come up with a list of ingredients and their meaning on their own. But if you do not want to reinvent the wheel, then we recommend using the following decryption:
- slices of sweet orange - to endless pleasure;
- raw round peas - domestic peace;
- roasted peanuts without peel - for a love affair;
- walnut (half) - good health;
- pickled or fried mushrooms - for a happy and long life;
- buckwheat - profitable and favorable news;
- large raisins - to the temptation;
- a seed - to wealth;
- sauerkraut or fresh - for the money;
- any sweet caramel - to love;
- fresh cranberries - to unexpected changes;
- hot red pepper - to chagrin;
- meaty dried apricots - to joy;
- bay leaf - to fame or career growth;
- carrot - to meet new people;
- a piece of meat or minced meat - to well-being;
- fresh or pickled cucumber - for good sex or for a strong man;
- millet - chores;
- raw rice - to the welfare of the house;
- seeds (kernels) - to new plans;
- coarse salt - to failures, quarrels or tears;
- hard cheese - to a big win;
- beans or fish scales - to replenish in the family;
- dill - to good health;
- whole hazelnuts - for successful acquisitions;
- bread - a year without worries;
- black pepper in the form of peas - to the arrival of friends or to new friendships;
- a piece of apple - to a well-deserved reward;
- garlic clove - to the marriage of convenience.
If dumplings are not presented to young children, then some culinary specialists put objects such as a gold ring, a coin, a chain, a button, etc. into them. These fillings also have their own meanings. You can recognize them by contacting the hostess of the celebration.