If a dish consists of a small number of components, then each of them must be brought to perfection. This rule applies to dumplings, a fundamental role in which plays dough and filling. And if we have already learned about the recipes of the pelmeni dough earlier, then for the first time we will talk about how to make minced meat for pelmeni in this material.
Filling for minced meat dumplings
If before dumplings were mainly made from game, in the modern world, when our menu is not determined by the results of hunting and we buy ready-made meat in stores, the main stuff for the dough is a mixture of beef and pork. The first is most saturated with taste, while the second, contains a sufficient amount of fat to get a juicy filling.
Ingredients:
- beef - 440 g;
- pork - 440 g;
- onion - 55 g.
Preparation
The composition of the filling is slightly more than ascetic - only three of the ingredients. Both kinds of meat should be passed through a meat grinder or finely chopped in a high-speed blender. The resulting mass is well seasoned with salt with freshly ground pepper, and then supplemented with onion. The latter are also preferred to pass through the meat grinder, for a thicket of juiciness filling, while others simply finely chop the onions by hand. Delicious minced meat for dumplings is ready, it can be cooled beforehand or immediately proceed to molding.
Pelmeni with cabbage and minced meat
The juiciness and softness of the dumplings stuffing can be due not only to the properly selected meat, but also to the addition of some vegetables. For example, cabbage adds significantly more moisture to the meat stuffing.
Ingredients:
- minced meat - 1.2 kg;
- onion - 165 g;
- garlic - 2 teeth;
- butter - 35 g;
- the head of the Peking cabbage;
- water - 55 ml.
Preparation
In this recipe, we do not use ordinary white cabbage to not feel the texture of its leaves in minced meat. An ideal replacement will be delicate Peking cabbage.
Chop the leaves of Peking cabbage and rub them with salt and a little water. Add the cabbage to the minced meat, and then send the chopped onions and grated garlic teeth. Pour in butter if using ground meat from low-fat meat cuts. The filling is ready, you can start molding.
Minced meat stuffing with pork and chicken
Among the time-tested recipes for pelmeni, not only fillings with minced game are popular, but also those that are prepared with the addition of forest mushrooms, whose aroma is able to decorate any dish.
Ingredients:
- Dried white mushrooms - 65 g;
- chicken mince - 320 g;
- minced pork meat - 240 g;
- onions - 85 g.
Preparation
Before making minced meat for dumplings, pour the mushrooms with warm water and leave to swell. Grind and save the onion, add to it sliced moisture-saturated mushrooms and let them together literally for a couple of minutes. Mix the roast with both types of minced meat and season well. After cooling the filling, proceed to the dumpling process .
Recipe for juicy stuffing for home-made dumplings
The real juicy stuffing consists not only of meat with a sufficient amount of fat, but also mixed with crushed ice, which melts during cooking and makes
Ingredients:
- ground beef - 430 g;
- minced pork meat - 270 g;
- crushed ice - 1 item;
- onions - 115 g.
Preparation
Mix both types of minced meat with chopped onion, salt and freshly ground pepper. Add crushed ice, mix, select a piece of minced meat for modeling one portion of ravioli, and send the remaining meat to the freezer so that the ice does not melt.