Dumplings - a fairly well-known dish of Eastern European cuisine. For a long time, the dumpling recipe was a traditional dish of Ukrainian national cuisine and consisted of small boiled pieces of dough. Nowadays, many housewives prefer to serve dumplings as a separate dish with butter and sour cream. For the main recipe for dumplings, you need to take premium flour (500 gr.), Water (0.5 tbsp.), Butter (100 gr.), A couple of eggs and a pinch of salt. Water, melted butter, eggs and salt are whipped and poured into a depression made in flour. Knead the dough well and roll out (0.5 cm thick), then cut into pieces: square, strips that are often twisted into flagella, dipped in boiling salted water and boiled. The readiness of dumplings is easily determined visually: boiled dough floats on the surface of the water. Dumplings are taken out, allowed to drain water, put in a deep saucepan, and then they are poured with oil or fried (cut into pieces) pork fat (cracklings), they are well shaken so that the dough does not stick together. Serve dumplings hot with sour cream.
The potato dumplings recipe is simple and easy to perform. In order to cook potato dumplings, you need a spoonful of raw and 5-6 boiled potatoes, one and a half tablespoons of flour, a couple of eggs, sunflower oil (1 tablespoon) and an onion. Mashed potatoes (raw and boiled), beat eggs, add flour, salt and knead the dough. A tourniquet is rolled up from the dough, it is pressed a little and cut into small diamonds. Dumplings are cooked in salted boiled water for no more than 7 minutes, then they are taken out and fried in a pan with onions (finely chopped) in sunflower oil. Served to the table with sour cream.
An unusual old recipe describes how to cook dumplings with mashed potatoes and chicken. Knead soft dough on the water, roll out and cut into small (any shape) pieces. Cook chicken broth, then put potatoes in it. Ready potatoes and boiled chicken are taken out, and dumplings are cooked in the broth until they surface on the broth surface. Meanwhile, cut the chicken into cubes, and crush the potatoes to form mashed potatoes. To the finished dumplings, put the sliced chicken and mashed potatoes back, mix everything well, season with garlic and sour cream.
When it comes to dumplings, one cannot help recalling another original recipe for dumplings - these are dumplings with cottage cheese or lazy dumplings, as they are often called. Indeed, the ingredients for the preparation of cottage cheese dumplings are identical to those that are part of the dumpling with cottage cheese. Take fresh cottage cheese, wipe through a large sieve or pass through a meat grinder, add beaten eggs (4 pcs.), Butter (30 g.), Flour (0,% tbsp.), Granulated sugar (1.5 tbsp.) And knead the dough. Make a tourniquet from the dough and cut into small pieces. Boil dumplings in boiled water until they pop up. Then remove the lazy dumplings (dumplings) from the water, pour the butter (pre-melted) and sour cream whipped with sugar.
Real Poltava dumplings with bacon are famous all over the world. The recipe for dumplings has its own peculiarity, in particular, the dough must be kneaded on kefir. To sifted flour (700 gr.) Add kefir, egg, salt and a little baking soda. Knead the dough thoroughly and make a long shape in the form of a “tail”. Cut small pieces with a knife, cut them and put a small piece of lard in each dumpling. And the preparation of dumplings is significantly different from the usual: Poltava dumplings are cooked not in water, but for a couple (5-10 minutes). Separately prepare gravy from chicken, garlic and parsley. Dumplings are put in a stew-pan and poured with gravy, they serve the dish hot and always with sour cream.
Cooking dumplings evokes only the most positive emotions, which, together with excellent taste, give us a special culinary masterpiece.