Cooking homemade dumplings in our family is a pleasant tradition. We get together and sculpt our favorite dumplings. Mom leads the test, and dad - the process of stuffing and modeling. This is a time when you can calmly, without rushing, chat with children. Joint cooking, and then eating, visibly unites the family.
Dumplings at home are very simple to prepare.
We make dough for dumplings from flour (how much will it take), water, one egg, salt. The dough should be well kneaded, plastic. Cover the prepared dough with a cup to prevent airing.
We make minced meat for dumplings from beef and pork meat (half as much) with the addition of lard. Together with the minced meat, we surely twist the onion, about five or six pieces. Salt the minced meat, season it well with black pepper and mix.
We love that the dumplings were all the same, as for the selection. Therefore, I divide the prepared dough into several parts. I roll one, the others are under the lid. It happens that flour of not very good quality comes across and the dough “floats”. Therefore, before I roll out the juice, I knead the dough again with the addition of flour. I roll out a circle from the dough with a large rolling pin, with a glass with sharp edges I cut out circles of dough. It is advisable to make one side of the circles more dusted with flour than the other.
Now the husband and children are included in the cooking process. They spread the minced meat with a fork into circles, make dumplings, and put them on a clean baking sheet. And my mother-in-law has plywood, which is stored in its pure form especially for dumplings.
Another secret of our homemade dumplings. Be sure to make a "happy dumpling". That is, in the middle, with minced meat, you need to put a pretty penny (of course, pre-washed well in boiling water). Children are always happy and interested in looking for money, gobbling up home dumplings. Knowing that this dumpling can get someone, we bite, of course, carefully. Why rush? Enjoy the joint work and great taste.
Homemade dumplings recipe - test options.
To prepare dumplings, you can use not only water, but also milk, add melted butter, and increase the number of eggs. If you add a little tomato sauce, the color will become a pleasant pinkish tint.
In any case, knead the dough in such a way that it can easily be rolled thinly. It is in a thin test that the filling is well felt.
Homemade dumplings recipe - different fillings.
In addition to the traditional pork and ground beef, dumplings can also use poultry meat. Dumplings will be tender.
However, there is no limit to the variety of ravioli fillings. You can cook fish or mushroom dumplings.
Recipe for homemade fish dumplings. It is better to take pike or pike perch fillet. Also twist in a meat grinder, add onions, salt, black pepper.
For minced mushrooms, fry the mushrooms with onions, mix with minced chicken, salt and pepper.
The recipe for homemade dumplings for vegetarians.
With cabbage and mushrooms.
Boil the mushrooms, twist in a meat grinder with white cabbage. Add onion fried in vegetable oil to the mushroom mince, as well as salt and pepper.
With potatoes and cheese.
Cook potatoes in salted water, add melted cheese, finely chopped and fried onions, black pepper. Wipe the entire mass through a sieve and beat.
It remains to discuss another important issue: How to serve homemade dumplings? Taste preferences even in one family differ markedly. I love dumplings with sour cream or broth, children - with ketchup. And dad dilutes the vinegar in the mug with cold water so that it is slightly acidic, dips every dumpling into it.
I think that no one can imagine his life without Russian dumplings. Especially in winter.