In Slavic culture, a great place is given to national dishes. The most popular and versatile dishes include dumplings and dumplings. The first dish is a combination of different types and consistencies of meat with dough, and the second type of food is characterized by a large type of fillings. This article will be devoted to the classic combination of cottage cheese and dough for dumplings.
Dumplings with cottage cheese can be made of two types: sweet and unsweetened, but regardless of the type, they will still remain the second dish, hearty, tasty, simple. To prepare it, you will not need a large number of ingredients or complex and long processes, but you should remember that this delicacy has two components: dough and filling. To knead the dough for dumplings with cottage cheese, to make it tender, you need to have not only knowledge but also practical skills.
Types of dough for dumplings:
- Choux.
- On kefir.
- Yeast
- On mineral water.
- With starch.
- On the water, a classic recipe.
What is the secret to making the perfect dough? You need to follow the recipe and the chef's instinct exactly, then the dish will turn out delicious.
Material Content:
Choux pastry for dumplings with cottage cheese
The following ingredients will be needed:
- flour 700-750 grams;
- sugar 50 grams;
- butter 50-60 grams;
- milk 200 grams, 1 cup.
- egg whites 2 pieces;
- salt to taste.
Cooking method:
Milk, melted animal oil are poured into a special bowl or pan, sugar and salt are added, according to the proportion. The whole mixture is put on fire and brought to a boil. The note is removed from the fire. One cup of flour is gradually added to the preheated mass. When the mixture has cooled, slightly whipped proteins interfere with it. At the end, the remaining flour is poured out, and the elastic dough is kneaded.
Cooking on kefir
The next recipe is no less tasty and tender than the previous one.
To prepare the dough for dumplings with cottage cheese on kefir you will need:
- kefir 0.5 liters;
- flour 5 cups (volume about 20 ml);
- sugar 50 grams;
- egg 1 pc.;
- salt and soda 2/3 teaspoon.
Stages of cooking:
Egg, sugar and salt are added to the sifted flour. Soda is poured into kefir at room temperature, mixed, and, after waiting 5 minutes, again stirred until a quenching reaction occurs. Then kefir is slowly poured into the flour mixture and kneaded with a spoon (whisk), and then with your hands. The dough will be very tender, not sticky. It does not need to knead for a long time.
It is interesting: dough for dumplings on kefir
On a note. If after preparation there remains a piece of dough, it can be wrapped in a film and frozen, and if necessary reused.
Dumpling Yeast Dough Recipe
This recipe is known to many, however, it is the most troublesome because of its main component, yeast. For a long time it is more than compensated by its splendor and tenderness.
The composition of the components:
- boiled water 500-700 ml;
- flour 7-8 glasses (volume 20 ml);
- yeast 20 grams (if dry, then a teaspoon with a small hill);
- sugar 25 grams;
- 0.5 teaspoon salt.
How to knead yeast dough,
Dissolve the yeast in boiled warm water, but not hot, add sugar and salt. Pour 6 cups of sifted flour, knead. Get a slightly sticky mass. Gradually add the rest of the flour until a firm, non-sticky consistency is obtained. Then cover the container with a cloth and put in a warm place for 90 minutes, so that the dough rises, acquiring splendor, airiness.
Important! To get a really tasty base that retains its taste for a long time, the dough should be kneading several times.
Mineral Water Dough
Another recipe containing a little trick is mineral water. Thanks to which the dough on the water is elastic, piquant, tender.
The ingredients are as follows:
- mineral water 1 cup;
- wheat flour 4.5 cups;
- vegetable oil 80 grams;
- egg 1 pc.;
- salt and sugar to taste.
Cooking steps:
- The first step: mix mineral water, sugar, salt and an egg. Beat the mixture well with a whisk.
- Second: add the sifted flour in small portions and knead until a shiny, soft, non-sticky, homogeneous mass is obtained.
With the addition of starch
Starch will give the dough elasticity and tenderness, holds the seams firmly during cooking and does not give any extraneous taste.
The composition includes:
- wheat flour 250 grams;
- potato starch 100-120 grams;
- boiled water 150 ml;
- vegetable oil 1 tablespoon;
- salt and sugar.
Procedure:
First, all bulk ingredients are mixed - flour, sugar, salt, starch. Thoroughly mixed together until smooth. Water and oil are added to the resulting mixture. The dough is kneaded to a smooth texture that does not stick to the hands of the mixture, then wrapped in cling film and left in a cool place (refrigerator, for example) for 0.5 hours.
Soft plastic dough on the water
The classic recipe is known to all housewives. It is simple and quick to prepare, and therefore it is considered the most common.
The composition includes the components:
- drinking water, cold 1 cup;
- wheat flour 2 cups;
- salt to taste.
The preparation of this type of dough is to mix all the products to a homogeneous mass. Leave to "rest" on the countertop under a towel or thin cloth for 30 minutes.
Recipe options are presented, as for the other important points in the preparation of dumplings, they should be considered separately.
How to cook the filling, sculpt and cook dumplings with cottage cheese?
Filling is no less important than high-quality dough.
To prepare it you will need:
- 500 grams of cottage cheese;
- 1 egg yolk;
- sugar to taste;
- vanillin.
Cottage cheese is necessarily passed through a fine metal sieve to get a homogeneous mass without lumps and impurities.
After this simple manipulation, beat the yolk into the mass, turn on the sugar, vanillin and mix thoroughly until completely homogeneous. This can be done manually using a spoon or spatula, or use a mixer. In the latter case, the mass becomes a little viscous and thick.
To make dumplings is not so difficult as it seems at first glance. The dough is divided into equal portions, from which forms in the form of a pancake are rolled. You can make one large pancake with a thickness of the order of a centimeter, and squeeze the workpieces with a special shape or a glass. Next, put a teaspoon of the filling in each mold obtained and carefully pinch the edges so that the contents do not fall out during cooking.
The dish is cooked in a large amount of water, previously salted, then the dumplings will acquire a piquant note. The average cooking time is 5-7 minutes. If you add sugar at the rate of ½ tablespoon per liter of water, then the dish will turn out to be sweet.
Vareniki is not only a tasty, satisfying, but also a healthy dish, due to its composition and the love with which it is prepared. In addition, this is a very practical option. At one time, you can cook a dough for dumplings of a sufficiently large batch. Arrange them on chopping boards sprinkled with flour, and freeze for a couple of hours in the freezer. After collecting the products in a bag and store in the freezer. When you don’t have the strength to cook something complicated for dinner, you can get them out of the freezer and quickly boil until cooked.
Important! Before cooking, dumplings are not thawed, they are dipped in boiled water in ice cream.
