Potato dumplings are an invention of Belarusian cuisine. The only unchangeable component is potatoes, it is combined with other ingredients, creating tasty and mouth-watering compositions that can be an independent snack, complement to soup or garnish to meat, fish.
How to cook potato dumplings?
Preparation of dumplings from potatoes is a simple process, but requires the availability of necessary products, free time and observance of simple rules.
- Products can be made out of raw or already boiled potatoes, which are added with flour, starch, eggs and, depending on the recipe, other ingredients.
- Dumplings form a round or oval shape, boiled in salted water, soup, less often - they are additionally baked in the oven.
- Serve dumplings from potatoes with sour cream, suitable sauce or gravy.
Potato dumplings - recipe
Classic potato dumplings are an elementary recipe and do not require the presence of exquisite ingredients or a rich culinary experience. Even boil potatoes in this case is not necessary. Tubers simply clean, grind on a fine grater and squeeze the juice a little, placing the mass in the gauze or fabric cut.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 4 pcs .;
- milk - ¼ cup;
- egg - 1 piece;
- flour - 1 glass;
- salt - pinch.
Preparation
- Prepare the tubers, grind, squeeze the juice.
- Flesh pour milk, add salt, egg.
- Pour in the flour and knead the dough.
- Divide the base into portions, roll the sausages out of them, cut them.
- Dumplings from raw potatoes are boiled in water, broth or soup 2 minutes after boiling.
Potato dumplings - recipe with meat
Potato dumplings with meat are extremely popular in Belarus. In fact, the products resemble pelmeni, only they are decorated in the form of balls of potato dough, which gives the delicacy an unusual taste. Serve the dish with fried squash and onions, often supplementing it with sour cream.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 10 pcs .;
- onion - 3 pieces;
- egg - 1 piece;
- flour - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- pork - 500 g;
- lard - 70-100 g;
- salt, pepper, seasonings.
Preparation
- Twist the meat with the onion, season.
- The potatoes are cleaned, grinded on the smallest grater with a bulb, squeezed from the juice.
- Juice is defended, starch is added to the base.
- Drive in an egg, pour in flour and salt, knead.
- Divide the mass into portions, make out cakes, fill them with filling.
- Boil the balls with a quiet boil for 30 minutes.
- Heat the fat, add the onions, fry.
- Ready potato dumplings pour fry.
Soup with potato dumplings
A delicious buckwheat soup with mushrooms and potato dumplings is an excellent option for a hearty dinner. Instead of the notorious potato cubes, which often accompany the hot, in this case, gentle and appetizing dumplings are added, giving the food a special taste and originality. Only 40 minutes spent, and a tasty meal decorated.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 4 pcs .;
- onions and carrots - 1 pc .;
- egg - 1 piece;
- flour - 5 tbsp. spoons;
- chicken breast - 1 pc .;
- mushrooms - 250 g;
- buckwheat - 1/3 cup;
- water - 2 l;
- oil - 30 g;
- salt, pepper, laurel, greens.
Preparation
- Peeled potatoes boil, grind, cool.
- Boil the cut chicken breast in water.
- Fry the mushrooms in oil, add onions and carrots, pass until soft.
- In the puree, drive in the egg, pour in flour and salt, stir.
- In a boiling broth moistened with a teaspoon lay the dough.
- When the dumplings come up, add the fry, spices, greens, cook the dish for 4 minutes.
Potato dumplings in the oven
The following recipe for potato dumplings can not be called simple. Its execution is troublesome and will take a lot of time, but the final result will surpass all expectations and please with an unusual, unusual, amazing taste. Initially, products from potatoes and meat are boiled, and then baked in pots with cheese.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 1,5 kg;
- milk - 1.5 cups;
- onion - 1 piece;
- egg - 1 piece;
- flour - 1 glass;
- pork - 150 g;
- oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- cheese - 150 g;
- salt, pepper, cumin, seasonings.
Preparation
- Pork is cut very finely and fried with onion for 15 minutes.
- Boil potatoes, knead, pour in hot milk.
- Add the frying with meat, salt, pepper, cumin, seasonings, mix, cool.
- The eggs are stuck in the base, they pour in flour, mix, make out round products, pan them in flour and boil them.
- Fold the potato dumplings in oily pots, sprinkle with cheese and bake at 200 degrees in the oven for 15 minutes.
Potato dumplings in Polish
Polish dumplings from potatoes differ from the classical Belarusian funny form. To obtain the desired result, the balls formed from the potato dough are pressed with two fingers from two sides, so that characteristic notches are formed. Served with fried with bacon and onions.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 1,5 kg;
- starch - 200 g;
- onions and lard - 100 g each;
- yolk - 1 piece;
- salt.
Preparation
- Boiled, mashed and cooled potatoes are mixed with starch, yolk and salt.
- Decorate the balls a little more than a walnut, squeeze each and boil 5 minutes after boiling.
- Heat the sliced fat in the frying pan, add onion, fry.
- When serving serve up the potato Polish dumplings with frying.
Potato dumplings with meat in Belarusian
Potato dumplings in Belarusian can be cooked with any meat: beef, pork, flesh of the bird, twisting the product in a meat grinder or grinding in a blender along with a bulb. Traditionally, caraway seeds are added to the meat base, which gives the products a characteristic spicy taste and an amazing aroma.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 1.2 kg;
- flour - 1 glass;
- meat (pulp) - 500 g;
- onion - 1 piece;
- cumin - ½ tsp;
- salt.
Preparation
- Grind potatoes on a fine grater, squeeze the juice with gauze.
- Add salt and flour, knead.
- Meat is twisted with onions, salt is added, cumin.
- Make round dumplings, filling cakes with minced meat, and boil them in salted water for 25 minutes.
- Hot potato dumplings with sour cream are served.
Potato dumplings with spinach
Fancy potato dumplings with spinach are unusual, but very tasty. Greens can be used both fresh and frozen, intervening it after cutting into a potato mass. As a binder component in this case, oat flakes appear, which for a few minutes are poured with boiling water.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 700 g;
- spinach - 100 g;
- onions and leeks - 50 g;
- flour and oat flakes - 50 g;
- salt, pepper, olive oil.
Preparation
- Boil potatoes in a uniform, clean, grind them in puree.
- Mix the mass with steamed flakes, spinach, flour, seasoning to taste.
- Roll the sausages, which are cut into fragments and boiled in salted water.
- Serve hot potato gnocchi with sliced leeks and butter.
Potato dumplings with cheese
Especially tasty dumplings from mashed potatoes and cheese. For piquancy in the dough you can add chopped fresh or dried herbs of basil or parsley - from this the food will become even more fragrant and appetizing. Ready-made products are served simply with sour cream or still hot sprinkled with additional cheese chips.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- cheese - 100 g;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- flour - 1-1,5 glasses;
- salt, pepper, herbs.
Preparation
- Boil in a uniform, clean and grind the potatoes, allow to cool.
- Add eggs, grated cheese, salt, greens, flour, knead.
- Roll the base sausage and cut into pieces.
- Boil the products in boiling water for 2-3 minutes, catch a noisy, serve hot.
Potato dumplings in Italian
Especially attract the attention of dumplings potato boiled, decorated according to the Italian recipe. Striking and rich taste characteristics of delicacies and bright colors, achieved by adding in parts of the potato base puree from spinach or beets. When serving, pour the melted butter and sprinkle with cheese.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- cheese - 100 g;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- flour - 2 cups;
- spinach and beets - 200 g;
- salt, cheese, butter.
Preparation
- Boiled potatoes are peeled, grinded, cooled and mixed with salt, egg, flour until a sticky dough is obtained.
- They are divided into three parts: one larger and two smaller.
- In one small portion, stir in boiled and ground beets, and in a second spinach puree, wringing it from moisture.
- Roll the sausages out of the dough, cut into portions and boil in water.