Steamed dumplings: cooking recipes

Steamed dumplings - this is a traditional homemade dish of Ukrainian cuisine, with which nothing can compare! Boiled is also tasty in its own way, but steam - special, dietary, soft.

They are sweet or savory, with sour cream, butter or fried onions. This dish will be an excellent Sunday breakfast, lunch or dinner. It will also look delicious on the festive table.

For modeling, you can use the whole family, children.

Description

When the slow cooker and the double boiler had not yet been invented, cooking steamed was not very convenient. Naturally, skilled housewives still came up with different ways of cooking dumplings, zraz, manti and other flour dishes: using a pot and colander, gauze, juice cooker (which was heated using a gas or electric stove) and so on.

Although, as noted by some modern housewives, it is the old method of steaming dishes that allows you to get a more delicate and lush texture.

The main thing is not to be afraid of difficulties, but to remember the joy that will be with loved ones for whom this is done.

Moreover, now everything is completely different. After all, a modern hostess had such an assistant in the kitchen as a crock-pot. And now the process of preparing this and other dishes has become much simpler and easier.

The article discusses several recipes for steamed dumplings (with photo) with different fillings and ingredients in the dough. They are cooked in a slow cooker, a double boiler, in a water bath (using gauze or wire rack, which are fixed in a pot of water).

With cottage cheese

Tasty and lush dumplings, the dough of which is kneaded on kefir. This allows you to get an airy texture of the dish. And the filling (cottage cheese) complements the taste of dumplings, making them even more fragrant and satisfying.

Cooking and ingredients for steamed dumplings with cottage cheese:

1. In a deep container for kneading dough, beat a chicken egg (1 piece), pour kefir (150 milliliters), stir.
2. Add salt (15 grams) and baking soda (10 grams).
3. Pass wheat flour (350 grams) through a sieve and pour to the components, mix, knead elastic dough.
4. Set aside for 20 minutes.
5. For the filling, put the pre-mashed fat cottage cheese (200 grams) in a small container, drive in the yolk (1 piece) and pour salt (15 grams) or sugar (20 grams), mix.
6. Roll out a large “cake” from the dough on the table work surface sprinkled with flour, the thickness of the layer is 7 millimeters.
7. Using a shot glass, cut round blanks.
8. Put on each little filling, previously making a recess with your hands.
9. Connect the halves of the dumpling.
10. Spread the finished product on a floured board, towel or table.
11. In the slow cooker, turn on the “Steamer” program, pour the required amount of water into the bowl and put the dumplings on the wire rack (at a short distance from each other).
12. Cook the dish for 10 minutes.

Steamed dumplings in a slow cooker are ready.

With potatoes, onions and herbs

It is important to note that the dumplings prepared in this way are a true classic of Ukrainian traditional cuisine. Thanks to this method of preparation, they are tender, airy and dietary. And if you add mashed potatoes with onions and herbs as a filling, then such a dish will appeal to vegetarians.

Description of the process and ingredients:

1. Combine at the same time a chicken egg (1 piece) and 200 milliliters of kefir.
2. In flour passed through a sieve (350 grams) add 10 grams of salt and the same amount of soda, mix.
3. Pour the mixture to the liquid component of the batch and gradually form a bun from the dough (in the process it is recommended to mix 30 milliliters of vegetable oil).
4. Set the dough for 30 minutes to insist and form a natural gluten.
5. Prepare the filling of mashed potatoes (400 grams), sauteed onions (80 grams), dill greens (30 grams), salt (15 grams), ground black pepper.
6. Make round billets (5 millimeters thick) from the dough, lay out the filling and pinch the edges.
7. Using a water bath or slow cooker, prepare a dish (dumplings will become larger, so laying them out, you must leave a distance).
8. Serve steamed dumplings with potatoes hot with butter and sour cream.

Stuffed with stewed cabbage

A wonderful recipe for dumplings, which, like potatoes and cottage cheese, is unusually tasty, satisfying, soft and easy to prepare, is a dish filled with fragrant cabbage.

Here you can fantasize as much as you like: add tomato during stewing or without stewing, a variety of spices, herbs, onions, carrots and so on.

Description of the process and ingredients:

1. Knead the dumpling for steamed dumplings with fat kefir (250 milliliters), soda (5 g), salt (10 g) and wheat flour (500 g).
2. Roll out a layer, cut round blanks.
3. Spread the previously prepared stewed cabbage stuffing (200 g) on ​​flat cakes, close the edges well.
4. Cook in a double boiler (time - 7 minutes).
5. Serve dumplings with vegetable oil (unrefined).
   

With cherry

An excellent recipe for sweet dumplings steamed from the most delicate dough with berries is the best dessert on a summer table. You can also use frozen cherries, then the dish will remind you of a warm summer, even in the cold season.

Description of the cooking process and ingredients:

1. Heat kefir (500 milliliters, fat content - 2.5%).
2. Pour into a container for kneading, add salt (5 grams), quenched with vinegar (8 milliliters) soda (20 g), stir the mixture.
3. After 15 minutes, pass wheat flour (1 kilogram) through a sieve.
4. Stir the mixture with a wooden spatula and knead soft dough.
5. Form round blanks.
6. For the filling, prepare fresh or frozen cherry berries (0.8 kg) pitted and granulated sugar (to taste).
7. Spread the filling (sugar and several berries) on the dough and fix the edges well.
8. Prepare a container for cooking, put on fire and bring water to a boil, fix the cheesecloth (in this way the cooked dish will turn out to be especially tender and airy).
9. Spread a batch of dumplings, cover and cook for 5 minutes.
10. It is good to sprinkle the dish with sugar.

Lush dumplings steamed ready.

With blueberries

In this recipe, the dough is kneaded not on kefir, but on sour cream. The dish also turns out delicious and mouth-watering. As for the splendor and tenderness of dumplings, it will depend on the steam cooking method: on gauze (softer) or in a double boiler (stiffer).

Description of the process and components:

1. Knead the dough by combining 200 grams of wheat flour with 4 grams of soda and 200 milliliters of sour cream (by consistency, it should not stick to hands).
   
2. Prepare berries (fresh or frozen blueberries can be used) and sugar (to taste).
3. On the table, roll out a layer of dough, form round billets (height 5 mm).
4. Put sugar and a couple of berries on each “pancake”, close it well along the edge.
5. Prepare a steam bath (pan with water and gauze on top) on the stove (or double boiler), spread the dumplings, leaving a space between them.

By cooking time: on gauze - 10 minutes, in a double boiler - 4 minutes.

Serve hot, sprinkled with plenty of sugar.

With mushrooms

This is a delicious steamed dumpling recipe with potatoes and mushrooms seasoned with fresh herbs and spices.

Description of the process and ingredients:

1. Boil peeled potatoes (400 grams) without adding salt.
2. Cook 200 grams of mushrooms (champignons), chopped them with medium slices, sauté in vegetable oil.
3. Pour in 40 milliliters of soy sauce, thanks to which the taste of mushrooms will become stronger.
4. Grind a pinch of dried porcini mushrooms and sprinkle with mushrooms.
5. Add salt (10 grams) and ground black pepper (5 grams).
6. Grind fresh dill (20 grams), pour into mushrooms.
7. Combine mashed potatoes and mushrooms, mix.
8. Grind onions (80 grams) and sauté in vegetable oil, pour the vegetable to the filling.
9. Knead the dough by combining wheat flour (0.5 kilograms), drinking water (300 milliliters), salt (10 grams), starch (30 grams), set the bun for 15 minutes.
   
10. Roll out the layer and prepare the blanks, lay out the filling and fasten the dumplings.
11. Pour a certain amount of water into the cooking container, add salt, put gauze or wire rack, cover with a lid or bowl, boil.
12. Steam the dumplings by laying them on the wire rack.
    

Dumplings with potatoes and liver

To make the dish even more satisfying, rich and tasty, you can add boiled liver (chicken, pork) to the filling of potatoes. Thus, steamed dumplings will be an excellent dinner or Sunday breakfast (lunch) for the whole family.

Description of the cooking process and ingredients:

1. Knead the dough from wheat flour (1 kilogram), water (300 milliliters), eggs (1 piece), salt (10 grams).
2. Put soft and elastic dough into a container, leave.
3. Prepare the filling of boiled potatoes (0.5 kilograms) and fried liver (300 grams).
4. Boiled peeled tubers in salted water, chopped until mashed.
5. Brown the liver and stew in vegetable oil (30 milliliters), grind.
6. Combine potatoes and liver, mix.
7. Strain onions (150 grams) in vegetable oil (10 milliliters).
8. Pour into the filling, add salt (20 grams), ground pepper (5 grams), other spices, mix.
9. Prepare dough blanks, put potatoes with liver, and fix.
10. Pour water into the multicooker bowl, put the wire rack on which to place the dumplings (cook in the Double boiler program).
    

Summary

You can also cook a dish with beans, rhubarb, meat and potatoes, strawberries and so on. The main thing is not to be afraid to fantasize and experiment.

And also cook in a good mood and send love.