Dumplings: how to cook according to a traditional recipe and how to properly knead their dough

Dumplings: how to cook according to a traditional recipe and how to properly knead their dough

Greetings to all readers of the magazine! Now I’ll tell you what dumplings are, how they are prepared, and how to create the dough for them simply and quickly. Let's look at the traditional recipe step by step with photos.

Dumplings are pieces of dough boiled in salted boiling water. Served fried, as a separate dish with sour cream, butter, lard, fried as a side dish, or as a hearty addition to soups and meat dishes. The manufacturing method differs only geographically. For example, in Ingushetia they are cooked as a side dish for meat, in Ukraine they are put in the famous borscht, in Russia they are served as an independent dish.

Preparing dough for dumplings is very simple; you need to knead it with water, flour, and add salt. This is the most common, economical, traditional recipe for making. If you want to improve it, then there are a lot of options, each tastier than the other.

You just need to flavor the dough with new additives, then create different fryings and sauces for serving. The result will be a very tasty and satisfying daily meal, and if you get creative, you can even make a dessert. Grate the apples, beat the egg and sugar into a foam, mix with flour and knead - then everything according to the traditional recipe.

We will serve with sour cream, jam or sweet syrup. My whole family is always happy about this dessert.

So, let’s look at making dumplings and decide how much to cook them.

Ingredients

Let's figure out how to prepare it specifically according to the traditional recipe. If we add some other ingredients, we will get new versions of the dish, which are described in the “Other recipes” section.

Step-by-step traditional recipe with photos

Video recipe

Other recipes

Delicate, fragrant dumplings are delicious on their own and, of course, are suitable as an addition to any dish. Let's show some imagination, a little diligence and start cooking in a variety of ways.

Ukrainian dumplings are the most delicious! They will be a wonderful addition to any dish: borscht, chicken soup, meat dish. They are prepared according to the traditional recipe, but they definitely add an egg and butter. Sift the flour, add salt, create a hole in the form of a funnel, pour eggs, melted butter, water, milk or broth into it. Mix everything until you get a smooth, soft, not very tough dough, then divide it into small pieces, boil it and serve it with any dish to add richness, size, and beauty to it. Also in Ukrainian traditions, it is customary to serve dumplings as an independent dish with sour cream and herbs.

• Poltava

Poltava dumplings are prepared only with kefir. They are known all over the world. In Poltava they even erected a monument to them as a symbol of delicious food and hospitality. Let's boil the wonderful dumplings, put them in a pot and cover with a lid to steam. Prepare the dressing separately: fry lard with meat layer, onions, carrots, mushrooms, and a little boiled chicken in a frying pan. Let's open the pot, sprinkle with dressing and enjoy the most delicious food.

• Curd and pumpkin

In this version, dumplings are prepared from 2 types of dough: separately with cottage cheese and separately with pumpkin. Roll out both doughs in a layer 0.5 cm wide, squeeze out the circles with a regular glass so that they come out evenly. Then we combine the cottage cheese and pumpkin circles into rolls and boil them together. It will turn out not only delicious, but also wonderful!

Beat the egg, add grated garlic, salt and mix with flour. If you want thicker dumplings, do not add liquid; if softer, add a little warm milk or water. Garlic will give a pungency and an excellent smell. Serve the dish fried in sunflower or butter. Add vegetables, herbs, you can also add meat or mushroom frying.

• With potatoes

Potato dumplings are also called lazy dumplings. The potatoes are simply not rolled into the dough, but immediately added to it. Boil the potatoes, mash them, add the egg and flour. Knead, roll out a rope with a diameter of 2-3 cm, cut into small pieces, then boil and serve with fried onions, herbs, and sour cream. It's delicious!

Useful tips

1. To prevent the dumplings from becoming tough, you need to know how to cook them: after they float, cook for only 1-2 minutes.
2. The finished dough must hold its shape perfectly, but not be hard, so that the food comes out soft and fluffy.
3. This dish is wonderfully prepared on a special stand in a double boiler or multicooker.
4. You can fry in sunflower or butter with finely chopped onions, serve with herbs and crushed garlic.
5. Before serving, you can decorate the dish with various herbs, but dill is ideal.
6. It’s great to serve this dish with sour cream, mayonnaise or any other sauce.
7. The traditional manufacturing option does not involve any additives to the dough, but if you want to vary the taste of the dumplings, then add to them your choice: egg, drink, broth, garlic, poppy seeds, cottage cheese, potatoes, minced meat, lard, onion and even feta cheese. Experiment, any new version tastes better than the previous one!

Conclusion

We learned what dumplings are. We learned how to cook them according to the traditional recipe and sorted out 5 more options with the addition of other products. All that remains is to prepare all this and enjoy the taste of such an ordinary, delicious dish.

Try it, you will like it! Tell your friends about the recipe and share your views in the comments.

How to create dumplings for soup: two options

Soup with dumplings will always be thick and rich. Therefore, it is worth paying attention to their correct preparation even separately from the soup. You will learn how this is done from our recipes. We present to your attention two dough options - kefir and custard - with step-by-step photos.

Dumplings for soup made from kefir dough

What will we need for dumplings?

• drink – 100 ml;
• wheat flour – 190 g;
• chicken egg – 1 pc.;
• salt – 3 pinches;
• soda – 1/5 tsp.

From this quantity of goods you will get quite a lot of dumplings. Some of them can be sent to a huge pot of soup, and some can be frozen to be consumed later.

How to make dumplings, step by step with photos

1. To knead the dough, take a deep bowl. Let's pour a drink of any fat content into it.
2. Beat in a fresh chicken egg.
3. Add a little salt and baking soda and start whisking everything.
4. Start adding sifted wheat flour in small portions. When the dough becomes thick, continue kneading it with a spoon.
5. But at the end of the process we begin to knead with our hands. The dough will be soft and airy. Cover it with film and leave for 15 minutes.
6. Cut a small piece from the lump of dough, form a strip and cut it into small pieces. Continue grinding until the dough is complete. We leave as much as we need for the current soup. We put the excess in the freezer.
7. Throw the dumplings into boiling salted water to cook. After boiling again, they will float out in almost 2-3 minutes. Therefore, they must be thrown into the soup no earlier than 4-5 minutes before the end of cooking.

Choux pastry dumplings - a good recipe for soup

Ingredients:

• butter – 15 g;
• chicken egg – 1 pc.;
• wheat flour – 100-120 g;
• water – 100 ml;
• salt – 1/4 tsp.

You will get 25-30 pieces.

How to correctly create dumplings from choux pastry

1. Pour water into a saucepan and put a piece of butter, add salt. Let it heat up over low heat.
2. After a couple of minutes, the water will boil, the salt will dissolve, and the butter will melt.
3. Immediately add the entire portion of sifted wheat flour. We begin to actively mix the ingredients with a spatula or wooden spoon (if the saucepan has a non-stick coating).
4. The flour will immediately seize into a large lump. Knead it for another minute.
5. Transfer the dough to a bowl and let cool slightly. Let's beat a fresh chicken egg - it's better to take a small one and take it out of the refrigerator in advance so that it warms up to room temperature.
6. Knead the dough and separate a small fragment from it. Then lightly dust the work surface with flour. Roll out the separated part into a rope and cut into small pieces.
7. Add the dumplings to the soup a couple of minutes before the end of cooking - in almost two minutes they will cook and float to the surface.

Recipe creator: Julia S.

Dumplings can be prepared not only from wheat, but also from buckwheat flour. But in order for them to come out tender and fluffy, during the process of kneading the dough you definitely need to add water, drink or milk. Without adding water, the dumplings will turn out a little tough and spoil the soup.

The preparations can be created both in the form of strips and sliced ​​sausages, and they can be given another shape - in the form of empty dumplings or dumplings.

If we are preparing dumplings right now, and not for future use, then we simply separate them from the dough with a spoon and dip them into the bubbling broth.

If you threw it in very early, and the soup has not yet finished cooking, you should catch the dumplings with a slotted spoon and return them after the end of cooking.

How long to cook? The time depends on the size of the dumplings: huge ones cook longer, small ones faster.

And, in the end, a reference for those who are looking for the difference in the meanings of the words “dumplings” and “dumplings”.

It's practically the same thing. Galushki is a Little Russian version of the name dumplings. Therefore, in Ukraine, both in the old days and today, the word “dumplings” is used more often, and in Russia, by tradition, both names coexist equally: southern Russian and traditional. The famous Gogol Patsyuk, as we remember, sucked up the dumplings that flew into his mouth. But before this, this bright character ate dumplings. And how: I slurped them straight from the plate. And in order to slurp without the help of a spoon, they really must be soft. So use our tips.

Tender dumplings and hearty soups for you! Bon appetit!

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Dough dumplings for soup recipe

Ingredients

Step-by-step recipe for making dumplings from soup dough with photos

The delicacy is prepared like this:

Place chicken legs in a container with cool water, put on fire, boil the contents, skim off the foam, and cook over low heat for an hour. Be sure to add pepper and bay leaf to the broth.

Peel the vegetables and rinse. Cut the potatoes into small cubes.

Throw the potatoes and carrots into the bubbling broth and cook for 15 minutes.

Peel the onion and chop it.

Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and fry the onion pieces until golden. At the end of frying, add butter.

While the vegetables are cooking, make the dough. Break the eggs into a deep bowl, pour in the milk, add salt and pepper, add flour, which you have sifted in advance. Whisk the ingredients using a whisk.

Peel the garlic, chop finely, add to the dough.

Video recipe for dumplings made from soup dough

Soup with dumplings: recipe with photos

Soup with dumplings is a hearty first course that is breathtakingly quickly prepared and eaten instantly. A properly prepared soup will certainly please both adults and children. Find the most common recipe for soup with dumplings in the article.

Soup with dumplings: YouTube/Little Things in Life

Soup with dumplings: recipe, ingredients, tips

The first dishes (broth, soup, solyanka, borscht) must be prepared. The watery soup not only saturates, but also improves digestion. To avoid problems with the stomach and intestinal tract, almost all doctors and nutritionists strongly recommend consuming broths and soups once a day.

In order to vary your diet and not torture your loved ones with the same diet, experiment and look for recipes for first courses that are worthy of attention. One of the tasty and everyday first serving options is dumpling soup. It is very filling, but at the same time ordinary and tasty.

How to make soup with dumplings your household’s favorite dish? The recipe, which came from the Poltava region (Ukraine) and according to which this dish was probably prepared in the house of Nikolai Gogol, became a winner in Ukrainian and not only cuisine. Would you like to learn a hearty Cossack soup without meat according to an old recipe? Then first prepare the following ingredients:

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• meat, chicken or vegetable broth - 3 l;
• potatoes - 4–5 pcs. (more is possible if the potatoes are small);
• onion - 1 pc.;
• carrots - 1–2 pcs.;
• vegetable oil - 50 ml;
• salt - 1 tbsp. l.;
• fresh herbs (cilantro, dill, parsley) - 1 bunch;
• spices (dark ground pepper, bay leaf, peppercorns, dried garlic) - to taste.

Ingredients for soup with dumplings: YouTube/Little Things in Life

Let us separately focus on the main component of the soup - juicy dumplings. Dumplings are a national dish of Ukrainian cuisine. Pieces of dough boiled in boiling water are what dumplings are. Their recipe is simple. It will be useful for you:

• flour - 5 tbsp. l.;
• chicken egg - 1 pc.;
• salt - ½ tsp;
• butter or sour cream - 2 tbsp. l.

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The extreme ingredient is not inexorable. But keep in mind that sour cream, thick homemade cream or butter added to the dough will make the dumplings very tender and melting in your mouth. Try making these dumplings for soup, and I assure you, you won’t regret it.

How to make soup with dumplings

A fragrant, hearty and simple soup is a great idea for lunch or dinner. If you don’t understand how to make dumpling soup, here are some helpful hints and tips that will make the process simple and understandable. With step-by-step controls, making soup is an easy task:

• If you cook with meat broth, then stock up on the soup base. The upcoming outcome depends on the taste and richness of the broth. There are a huge number of options for making it: you can create beef, chicken or vegetable broth. Usually chicken broth is perfect for soup with dumplings. But it is possible to get by with a vegetable one, and you can cook it together with dumplings. How? Read on.
• Prepare the vegetables. Be sure to clean and wash them. Cut the potatoes into cubes, finely chop the onion, grate the carrots.

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Cutting vegetables for soup: YouTube/Little Things in Life

• Pour 3 liters of water into a saucepan, bring to a boil and place the chopped potatoes there.
• Make a fry. To do this, put the frying pan on the fire, and after heating it, pour in the sunflower oil. When the oil becomes hot, add the onion and fry it until golden brown. Next, add the carrots and fry over medium heat for another 5 minutes.

Making frying soup with dumplings: YouTube/Little Things in Life

• If the potatoes in the soup have become soft, then you can add ready-made fried potatoes.
• The final step is making dumplings. How to create dumplings for soup? First, knead the dough for dumplings into the soup: beat an egg into a small bowl and add sour cream or heated butter. Stir well and add salt. Add flour evenly and stir. When the dough becomes thick like thick sour cream, stop the process.
• Dumplings are made when the soup is actually ready, since they cook instantly. The process of preparing dumplings is not difficult: scoop up a little dough with a spoon and drop it into the bubbling soup. Repeat until the dough in the bowl is complete.

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Dumplings in soup: YouTube/Little things in Life

• Cook the soup for another 3-4 minutes. Add salt, spices and finely chopped herbs.
• Remove the pan from the stove, cover with a lid and let sit for 7-10 minutes.

The hearty first course is ready. You can serve it by adding meat (if you prepared meat broth) or seasoning it with sour cream.