This dish is known in many countries under different names. In Poland it is called dumplings, in Italy it is served under the name gnocchi, in the Czech Republic it is dumplings, and on our tables it is lazy dumplings. The delicacy is adored from kindergarten age by adults and children. Many housewives know how to cook lazy dumplings on cottage cheese, but boiled potatoes, mushrooms and even hard cheese can also become the basis of this dish.

How to cook lazy cottage cheese dumplings

For cottage cheese dumplings, lazybones with a sweet taste and vanilla aroma, it is necessary to prepare products in the following proportions:

  • 500 g of cottage cheese;
  • 145 g flour;
  • 1 egg
  • 40-50 g of sugar;
  • 2-3 g of vanilla powder;
  • 3-4 g of salt.

Step-by-step sequence of culinary processes:

Cottage cheese should be selected rather fat and without sourness. If the fermented milk product is granular, then it is first wiped through a sieve, scrolled through a meat grinder, or slaughtered in a blender.

  1. Put all products except flour in a bowl. Then, using a potato masher or fork, knead and mix until smooth.
  2. Flour through a fine-mesh sieve and mix with the curd mass. As a result of the actions described above, you will get a soft, slightly sticky curd dough to the palms.
  3. Having wet your hands in water, roll thin sausages from the dough and cut them into small dumpling pieces.
  4. Throw cottage cheese dumplings into boiling water with a small amount of salt and cook until it emerges. Catch the cooked dumplings with a slotted spoon and send in a plate to the table with sour cream, honey, condensed milk or fruit jam.

Potato recipe

In the classic version of lazy potato dumplings, there are a minimum of ingredients, but if desired, fried mushrooms can be added to the potato dough.

List of necessary for making dumplings:

  • 500 g of potato tubers;
  • 150 g of flour;
  • 1 egg
  • 5 g of salt;
  • sour cream and herbs for serving to taste.

How to cook potato dumplings:

  1. Thinly peel the potatoes, wash the tubers and boil them in salted water until tender.
  2. Drain the potatoes, mash it with a crush in mashed potatoes. Allow to cool slightly based on future dumplings. Then add the egg and flour, knead the potato dough.
  3. From the resulting mass, form thin bundles, which are cut into pieces 1.5-2 cm long. Formed dumplings boil in salted water and serve, watering with sour cream and sprinkled with chopped herbs.

No eggs with semolina

Thanks to the protein casein, which is contained in the curd and provides it with sufficient stickiness, lazy dumplings from the curd can be prepared without eggs and with a minimum content of flour.

For such a recipe you will need:

  • 400 g of cottage cheese;
  • 60 g semolina;
  • 55-60 g of sugar;
  • 3 g of salt;
  • 2 g of vanillin;
  • flour for deboning.

Working process:

  1. Mash the cottage cheese with a fork, combine with sugar, salt, vanilla and semolina. Leave the mixture for 30-40 minutes, so that the semolina is thoroughly swollen.
  2. Next, roll small pieces of dough into balls no more than a walnut and roll in flour. Boil the curd balls 3-4 minutes after boiling water again. Serve with any sweet sauce.

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Diet lazy dumplings with cottage cheese

Cottage cheese, eggs, wheat flour and other products that are part of lazy dumplings are not only tasty and healthy, but also quite high in calories. You can reduce the calorie content of a dish by replacing the flour with oatmeal ground in a coffee grinder, and take the dairy product fat-free.

Products used in the preparation:

  • 400 g fat-free cottage cheese;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 180 g of oatmeal, ground into flour;
  • sugar and salt to taste.

Cooking method:

  1. In one container, combine all the ingredients of the dish. Carefully mix the mass so that the uniformity of its texture allows work with it.
  2. Put a pan with enough water on the fire. Meanwhile, form small balls from the curd mixture, which are then boiled in boiling water. The perfect complement to this diet dish is yogurt or jam.

How to cook with cherries

This is a recipe with a “twist”, or rather with a cherry inside. Berries can be taken frozen, canned or seasonally fresh, but always seedless.

List of ingredients:

  • 500 g of cottage cheese;
  • 40 g semolina;
  • 60 g of wheat flour;
  • 90 g of granulated sugar;
  • 1 egg
  • 100 g of pitted cherry berries.

Sequencing:

  1. Knead the curd dough and give it a little rest, 10-15 minutes are enough. In order not to clog the dough with flour and facilitate the work with it, you can knead it in the evening and leave it in the bag overnight in the refrigerator. There, the mass stabilizes, and flour for dusting is not required.
  2. Roll small balls of dough (like walnuts) into a cake, put one cherry in its center and form a ball again.
  3. Cook lazy dumplings with cherries for about five minutes with an active boil until floating.

Option like in kindergarten

For lazy dumplings as in kindergarten you need to take:

  • 440 g of cottage cheese;
  • 40 g of sugar;
  • 1 egg
  • 3 g of salt;
  • 140 g of flour;
  • 40 g butter.

Sequencing:

  1. Add the sugar, egg and flour to the grated curd. Stir the mixture until smooth.
  2. Roll out the dough into a layer 1 cm thick, which dissolve into strips 2.5 cm wide and cut them into squares, rectangles or rhombs.
  3. Cook in boiling water over low heat for four to five minutes. Serve dumplings by pouring with melted butter.

Salted lazy dumplings with potatoes and cheese

To cook lazy dumplings with potatoes and hard cheese you will need:

  • 400 g of potatoes;
  • 100 g of hard cheese (such as "Parmesan" or "Pecorino");
  • 1 egg yolk;
  • 100 g of flour;
  • 10 g of fresh dill;
  • 20 g butter;
  • salt and black pepper.

Cooking Technology:

  1. Boil peeled potatoes until soft in salted water. Then strain the water, and mash the potatoes until mashed with butter.
  2. Add the yolk, small cheese chips, chopped greens, salt and spices to the potato mass. Stir everything thoroughly.
  3. Pour the flour onto the table, transfer the potato-cheese mixture to it. Knead a little, and as soon as it is possible to work with the dough, form balls that are flattened on top with a fork so that four shallow grooves remain.
  4. If time permits freezing the workpieces for 10 minutes in the freezer, so that it is more convenient to shift them. Then throw in boiling salted water, mix, and after the appearance on the surface of the water, catch with a slotted spoon and serve with sour cream or butter.

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