Curd dumplings are often among the favorite home-made dishes of not only adults, but also children. Each cookbook has a recipe from the very beginning to the end. Every housewife makes the dough according to the recipe, which is most popular in her family. For the recipe for curd dumplings, the filling is taken differently: salty, sweet, with the addition of berries. Therefore, there are a lot of cooking options for this dish. By the way, very busy housewives prefer to use a recipe for lazy curd dumplings in the home kitchen. Their preparation does not take much time and, as a result, the family feasts on a delicious treat, which includes cottage cheese.
It's time for the dumplings
If you have long thought that you need to feed your favorite household with delicious dumplings, but everyone could not choose the time to start cooking them and deal with some of the tricks that help make this dish even tastier, then this selection of cottage cheese dumplings and photos are ready dishes for you. Therefore, we look, study and prepare. Recipes will be useful to those who have slightly forgotten about the existence of this dish, and this happens.
With berries
In the summer season, dumplings with cottage cheese and various berries enjoy special love. Blueberries, raspberries, strawberries occupy a leading position. So we will prepare cottage cheese dumplings with blueberries and other berries to diversify the number of dishes that you will serve for lunch or dinner for your family.
With blueberries and cottage cheese
The ingredients we need:
- flour - 650 grams;
- kefir - 500 milliliters;
- a generous pinch of salt;
- sugar - 1 tablespoon;
- a pinch of soda;
- chicken egg - 1 piece.
Products for filling:
- fat cottage cheese - 400 grams (it is better if you take homemade);
- the yolk of one egg;
- 3-4 tablespoons of sugar;
- a pinch of salt;
- half a pack of vanilla sugar;
- blueberries (frozen or fresh) - 1 cup (or 5 tablespoons).
Cooking technology
Step-by-step preparation of cottage cheese dumplings with blueberries begins with a batch of dough. Take a bowl (deep), sift into it the whole rate of flour for future dumplings. Introduce sugar, salt, egg and soda into the flour. Pour kefir in small portions into the middle of the dry ingredients and knead the dough for the curd dumplings. No need to make it too tight. At the same time, remember that to make beautiful dumplings, the dough should not stick to your hands: this complicates the process of sculpting them. We remove the finished dough for 20 minutes in a plastic bag or cover the bowl with the dough with a towel.
Cooking stuffing
Pour vanilla sugar, salt, regular sugar into the cottage cheese and add one egg yolk to the future filling. We grind the whole mass so that the ingredients for the filling dissolve and make the cottage cheese more pliable. At the same time, the filling should not spread and spread: the mass of cottage cheese should have a fairly dense granular structure.
We form and cook dumplings
After preparing the filling, we return to the test. It will need to be kneaded and, cutting off pieces, make thick bundles of them. The diameter of these harnesses should be 2-3 centimeters. From each bundle we cut “coins” about 1 centimeter thick and dip both sides of each such coin into flour. Then roll out and get a cake. We put in the middle of each cake a dessert spoon of cottage cheese and a few blueberries. We close the edges of the formed dumplings.
Boil water in a saucepan and add salt to your liking. Dip the cottage cheese dumplings into boiling water and wait for them to come up. 5-8 minutes after the products surfaced, they are removed from the water using a slotted spoon and, pouring oil, served with sour cream. As a result, the products are obtained, as if these cottage cheese dumplings were steamed.
For a couple
Speaking of steam dumplings. Many people like the option of cooking just for steaming, and if you are one of such gourmets, then this recipe for making dough is perfect for steaming in a slow cooker. Ready dumplings need to be laid out on a greased multicooker grid and, pouring a liter or two of water into the bowl, turn on the apparatus for 40 minutes.
With strawberry
And here’s the recipe for wonderful cottage cheese dumplings with strawberries.
The dough in the composition contains these ingredients:
- flour - 2 glasses;
- soda - generous pinch;
- serum - 125 milliliters;
- a pinch of salt;
- sour cream product - 5 tablespoons;
- lean oil without aroma - 2 tablespoons.
For filling:
- cottage cheese - 200 grams;
- butter - 80-100 grams;
- sugar - 4 tablespoons;
- half a glass of strawberries (cut too large berries).
First, prepare the dough on sour cream
Mix the flour with whey and sour cream, adding salt, soda and vegetable oil, knead the plastic dough. And, as in the previous recipe, leave our "blank" to rest for fifteen minutes. At this time, prepare the filling of cottage cheese and berries.
Stuffing from cottage cheese and strawberries is easy. Grind cottage cheese with sugar with a spoon or spatula. Mix the resulting tender mass with sugar and berries.
For the formation of dumplings, roll out a layer of dough and cut out the mugs using a tea cup or a recess for the dough. We put the finished filling on each circle and send the dumplings into boiling salted water. Be careful: the dough cooked on sour cream is cooked very quickly! Once the dumplings have surfaced, detect one and a half minutes and turn off the stove.
Cottage cheese dumplings with cherries
If we touched on the topic of preparing curd fillings for dumplings with different berries, we can’t ignore everyone's favorite aromatic cherry. This type of cottage cheese dumplings is good in hot and even cold. In the summer heat, this dish is considered light food. The main thing is to know the measure in portions, although in practice this is not easy. I would like to ask for supplements more and more.
Dough Ingredients
- Kefir - 250 milliliters.
- Flour - 480 grams.
- Chicken egg - 1 piece.
- A generous pinch of salt.
- Half a teaspoon of soda.
For filling
- cottage cheese - 350-400 grams;
- fresh pitted cherries - 250 grams;
- sugar - 2-3 tablespoons;
- starch - 1 teaspoon.
The cooking method is quite simple. Mix flour in a bowl with egg and salt. Kefir is poured into a separate bowl, we introduce the entire rate of soda into it. The mass will begin to hiss and bubble. Stir the kefir soda as quickly as possible and immediately pour the mixture into a bowl with flour. Knead the dough until it stops "clinging" to the hands. The finished dough will be elastic and not sticky. We remove it for 15 minutes so that the gluten in the flour makes the dough even more beautiful and elastic during this time.
Cherry should be washed and pitted. We mix the berries with sugar and, adding starch, again delicately mix them. Add cottage cheese mashed through a sieve to the berries and mix all the ingredients.
So the time has come for sculpting dumplings. We take out the dough from the dishes and slightly crush it. Divide into several parts. We turn each of them into a thick tourniquet and cut from it pieces of 1 centimeter. The ends of the resulting rounds are dipped in flour and rolled out with a rolling pin until all the circles turn into cakes.
We cook the resulting cottage cheese dumplings with cherries in boiling salted water. Only lower products into boiling water. When they come up, notice the time and after 5-8 minutes take them out of the water.
Lazy Dumplings
You can not begin to get acquainted with different recipes for cottage cheese dumplings and ignore their popular option - lazy dumplings. Such a dish is good because it quickly cooks and turns out to be very tasty and nutritious. For fans of sweet dumplings, you need to add more sugar to the dough. Those who like the salty version of the curd lazy dumplings need to slightly increase the rate of salt in the recipe and completely eliminate sugar.
Before preparing this option, make sure that all of the following ingredients are available in your kitchen cabinets and in the refrigerator:
- cottage cheese - 450-500 grams;
- egg - 1 piece;
- flour - 140-150 grams;
- sugar - two large spoons (for fans of sweet dishes);
- salt - a pinch; if you make dumplings not sweet, exclude all sugar and take a teaspoon of salt (or a little more).
Mash the cottage cheese with a fork and add the egg to it. Salt the mixture and mix. Enter sugar and mix the curd again. Add flour and knead the dough.
Dust your chopping surface with flour and lay a mass of flour and cottage cheese on it. Hold the dough until it becomes elastic. At the same time, the dough should be slightly moist and even slightly sticking to the fingers. In general, the proportion of cottage cheese in the final batch should exceed the proportion of flour.
It happens that the hostess was carried away by kneading and the dough becomes stiff. If you want to cook tender curd dumplings, do not get carried away with the additional addition of flour.
Dumpling shape
Wet your hands with cold water and cut a piece of dough from its main mass. Roll this dough into a sausage and cut into pieces. Someone makes lazy dumplings with a side of no more than one centimeter, and someone cuts longer pieces (up to three centimeters) and cooks them, slightly flattened. In general, these dumplings can be given many different forms, there are no restrictions on the imagination of the chef.
When all the dumplings are formed, they can be cooked. Boil water in a saucepan and add salt to it. As soon as the water begins to boil, reduce the heat to moderate, and lower the semi-finished products in boiling water. Such dumplings are boiled for three to four minutes. As soon as they emerge, we immediately take them out of the water. Be sure to pour the finished dish with vegetable oil, it will prevent the products from sticking together.
Serving such a dish is necessary based on what kind of taste it has. With sour cream, with butter, various sauces - an option for savory dumplings. Sweet "sloths" are served with honey, sour cream, butter, jam, condensed milk and jam. In the modern version, dumplings can be served with any sweet topping: caramel, chocolate, this variation of serving lazy dumplings with cottage cheese is very loved by children.
If it happens that you have stuck a lot of dumplings, their excess can easily be frozen for the future.