We go to the store, choose from a dozen bright packages the one that appealed more, we come home and cook. Stop! This is an option for single bachelors suffering from gastritis. Tasty homemade dumplings are a matter of honor for real housewives. And believe me, pelmeni at home is not such an impossibly featish feat, and the grateful chewing faces of the household will fully reward you for your labors. By the way, it's not only possible to mold pelmeni, but you need to involve the whole family. This is an excellent occasion to tear off her husband from the TV, the son - from the computer, and the daughter - from the cell phone.
How to cook dumplings?
Many families have their own recipe for cooking dumplings, there are many options. This one is traditional.
Ingredients:
For stuffing:
- beef - 300 g;
- pork - 300 g;
- onion - 2 pieces;
- salt and spices to taste.
For the test:
- flour - 2 items;
- egg - 1 piece;
- water -1/2 items;
- a pinch of salt.
Preparation
Whisk the egg, salt and water to a homogeneous mass (must be ice-cold - this is important!). Add the sifted flour in portions, knead the dough until it stops sticking to the hands. The dough should be smooth and elastic. We wrap it in a food film and for half an hour in a refrigerator, it will be better to sculpt.
We turn minced meat and onions. Do not be too lazy to miss the onion through the meat grinder 2 times. Solim, pepper. For juiciness in meat, you can roll up 300 grams of cabbage. Do not be afraid, it will not spoil the taste. Stuffing also needs to be cooled.
Thinly rolled out the dough cut out in circles, put the stuffing and carefully zaleplivaem. Cook in salted water for 8-10 minutes. For the aroma, add the favorite herbs to the pan with pelmeni.
How to cook Siberian dumplings?
- Siberian homemade dumplings are prepared only with meat, and no vegetable supplements are allowed (except for onions, of course);
- for the preparation of home-made pelmeni in Siberian required 3 types of meat in equal proportions. Usually they take pork, beef and lamb. Venison and elk are welcome, and bear cubs are quite exotic;
- Siberian dumplings before cooking always freeze. So they turn out juicier;
- Also, for juiciness in ground meat, crushed ice is added;
- traditionally, the dough for Siberian dumplings is fresh (do not salt);
- Siberians make homemade dumplings in a special way. Roll the dough from above with a raw egg, cut out the circles and mold. The egg will stick together the edges of the pelmeni, and the meat juice, when you cook, will not escape from it.
How to cook lazy dumplings?
If there is absolutely no time, but do not want to feed the family with half-finished products, there is an option for very busy and a bit lazy.
For lazy dumplings you need to take the same ingredients as for ordinary dumplings - they are written in the first recipe. Pelmennoe dough thinly roll out, try to get out a rectangle.
Now you can cook like ordinary pelmeni or freeze. And you can bake in the oven with vegetables. To do this, we pass the onions with carrots, a third put in the baking dish, then lazy pelmeni, and on top - the remaining vegetables. We raise a spoonful of sour cream with water and fill it with 2/3. Close the foil and bake it over low heat for about an hour. Now the foil can be removed and browned dumplings. Bon Appetit!