Potatoes have entered Russian cuisine so thoroughly that we can no longer imagine life without them. We have it in soup, in a side dish, in salad. To somehow compensate for the absence of this invaluable product in dessert, they came up with a recipe for potato cake. Let's not downplay the advantages of Solanum tuberosum - a nutritious vegetable, it contains vitamins and nutrients, dishes with potatoes are familiar and tasty. But don’t you think that we have become somewhat dependent on potatoes? Let's try to get rid of stereotypes and debunk the persistent Slavic myth that soup without potatoes turns into stew.
Soup with dumplings in chicken broth. Step-by-step cooking recipe
This is a basic recipe for classic chicken soup. There shouldn't be any difficulties with preparation. The main thing is to prepare the dough for the dumplings correctly so that they do not spread in the broth.
Ingredients:
- Chicken drumstick – 4 pcs
- Potatoes - 2 pcs.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Eggs - 2 pcs
- Flour - 6-8 tbsp. spoons
- Sweet pepper - 1 pc.
- Dill - optional
- Bay leaf - 1 piece
- Salt - to taste
Method of preparation: Rinse the chicken first and add water to the pan. Place the drumsticks in water and bring to a boil, then cook until the meat is completely cooked.
Peel and cut the potatoes into small pieces and add to the broth. While the potatoes are boiling, peel the onions and thoroughly rinse the carrots and prepare them for sautéing. To do this, chop the onion and grate the carrots on a fine grater. Place the prepared onion in a heated frying pan with vegetable oil and fry until golden, then add the carrots and fry the vegetables for another 5 minutes.
Let's prepare the dough for the dumplings. To do this, mix the egg and flour in a separate bowl. The dough should be thick.
When the potatoes are almost cooked, you can add the dough.
Heat a teaspoon well in the broth so that the dough does not stick to it, but rolls freely into the soup
Do not scoop too much dough onto the spoon, as the dumplings will expand in size during cooking. Cook them in the broth for about 10 minutes with the lid closed over low heat.
After the time has passed, add the carrots and onions to the broth. Cut the sweet pepper into small strips and place it in the pan, at the same stage add the greens. After a couple of minutes, add the bay leaf and salt the soup.
Cook the dish for another 10 minutes over low heat. Serve the dish with sour cream or mayonnaise.
Kindergarten dumpling soup recipe
This soup can be given to children from 1 year old. It is very tasty and kids like it, although adults love it no less. Preference here is given not to ordinary meat, but to minced meat. Because it is easier for children to chew.
Ingredients:
- Minced meat - 400 gr
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Onion - 2 pcs.
- Potatoes (large) - 2 pcs.
- Greenery
- Flour - 2 tbsp
- Egg - 1 pc.
Method of preparation: Let's make minced meatballs. Grate one small onion on a fine grater, add salt and spices to taste and mix everything well. If the minced meat is a little dry in your opinion, you can add a little water. Cut the potatoes into cubes. Put the water on the fire, as soon as it boils, add the potatoes. While he's getting ready, let's make the meatballs. Roll the minced meat into small balls.
To make it more convenient to form meatballs, wet your hands with water, so the minced meat will not stick to your fingers and palms
Immediately add the finished balls to the soup. Be sure to skim off the foam that will form when cooking the meat. To prepare the gnocchi, beat one egg in a bowl. Add some salt and flour. We make a dough similar in thickness to pancakes. Using a small spoon, scoop out a small amount of dough and add it to the broth.
Let's prepare the frying. Cut the onion into small cubes, fry in a frying pan, meanwhile grate the carrots on a coarse grater. When the onion turns golden, add the carrots and fry for another 3-5 minutes. Chop the greens. Add the prepared ingredients to the soup and salt it.
Cook for a few more minutes, after which you can serve the dish.
Recipe for soup with dumplings and chicken, like grandma's
Dumpling soup can be prepared very quickly and requires a minimum of ingredients. This is not only tasty, but also a healthy dish that the whole family will enjoy. And the cooking technology is completely different. Here the author fries fillet pieces with vegetables in a frying pan and then adds them to the soup. Try this method, there is something in it.
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Required Products:
Dumplings:
- Sour cream -45 ml
- Flour – 85 g
- Egg – 1 pc.
- A pinch of salt
Soup:
- Potatoes – 3 pcs.
- Onion – 1 pc.
- Carrot – 1 pc.
- Chicken fillet – 180 g
- Turmeric – 1 tsp.
- A pinch of salt
- Ground black pepper to taste
- Green onions
Preparation:
1. Cut the carrots into strips. Cut the onion into small cubes. Also cut the potatoes into strips, and the chicken into small pieces. Finely chop the onion.
2. Beat the egg into a separate deep bowl. Add salt and stir. Pour in sour cream. Add flour in portions, stirring with a whisk. The dough is ready.
3. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and heat it up. Add the fillet and fry until white. Add onion, carrots and fry for about 7 minutes. Pepper, salt, add turmeric and fry for another 5 minutes.
4. Add potatoes to boiling salted water and skim off the foam. Form dumplings and add them to the water.
5. When the dumplings are almost ready, you can add frying and cook for 5-7 minutes.
6. At the end of cooking, add greens. Taste and add salt and pepper if necessary.
Chicken soup with dumplings has an amazing taste and a pleasant golden color! I have already made dumplings according to this recipe, the first time I made it and it turned out great! Very tasty and easy!
Step-by-step recipe for pork and dumpling soup
This soup is especially delicious with pork. Very tasty and nutritious. The main advantage of such dishes is that they are prepared from familiar products that are found in every home.
Ingredients:
- Pork meat – 350g
- Water - 2.5 l
- Salt - 1 tbsp
- Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp
- Bay leaf - 1 piece
- Black peppercorns – 5pcs
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Onion - 1 piece
- Potatoes – 350g
- Greens to taste.
- Egg - 1 piece
- Water - 4 tbsp
- Salt - 1/3 tsp
- Flour - 100g
Method of preparation: Pour water into a saucepan, approximately 2.5 liters. Wash the pork meat and cut into small pieces. Place them in water, add bay leaf and peppercorns. Cook for about one hour.
Don't forget to skim off the foam. Cut the onions into small cubes and grate the carrots on a fine grater. Peel the potatoes and cut them into cubes. After an hour, add potatoes and one tablespoon of salt to the broth, cook for 20 minutes. In the meantime, prepare the frying. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and fry the onion until golden brown, then add the carrots to it and fry the vegetables for 4 minutes.
Add the finished frying to the broth and mix. Let's make the dumpling dough. Beat the egg in a bowl and add a little salt. Pour in a small amount of water and mix everything until smooth. Gradually add flour, stirring continuously. Place the prepared flour mixture into the soup using a small spoon.
When the dumplings float to the surface, cook the soup for another 4-5 minutes. A minute before readiness, add finely chopped greens.
The dish turns out rich, tasty and very satisfying.
Soup with cheese dumplings in chicken broth
This soup doesn’t last long because people always ask for more. Cheese dumplings make it unusual and original. Those who try it for the first time are often surprised by its pleasant taste and delicate texture. This juicy, bright and light-tasting dish will please everyone.
Ingredients:
- Chicken meat - 600 gr.
- Potatoes - 4 pcs.
- Pepper (sweet) - 1 pc.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Cheese - 100 gr.
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Flour - 4 tbsp
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Salt - 1 tbsp
- Sunflower oil
Method of preparation: Pour 3 liters of water into a saucepan and place pre-washed chicken meat in it. Lightly salt and cook over medium heat.
While the broth is preparing, let's make the dumpling dough. Grate the cheese on a fine grater, break one egg and mix well. Gradually add flour. The consistency of the dough should not be hard. But at the same time, not liquid, so that the balls do not fall apart.
Choose hard or semi-hard cheese.
When forming a ball, the dough should not stick to your hands; if this happens, add a little more flour.
Cut the potatoes into cubes. Let's prepare the frying. Grate the carrots and chop the onion. Cut the bell pepper into small pieces. Fry the vegetables in a frying pan with heated vegetable oil. Keep the carrots on the fire for 1-2 minutes and add bell pepper to it. After 2 minutes, add the onion and garlic passed through a garlic press.
Fry the vegetables for another 3-4 minutes. Remove the chicken from the broth and divide it into small pieces. Add chopped potatoes to the broth. Once it boils, add the dumplings. When they float, return the chicken pieces to the soup. Bring the ingredients to a boil and add the fry.
Bring to a boil again, wait 2 minutes and turn off the heat. Before serving the dish, let it sit for 10-15 minutes.
Grandma's soup with dumplings and chicken
This is a very easy option to prepare; it will take no more than 20 minutes if you already have ready-made chicken broth. But don't let the lightness fool you, this soup is also very good. Just meat, dumplings, aromatic broth and nothing extra.
Ingredients:
- Chicken – 400 gr
- Greens – 1/2 bunch
- Salt – 1 tsp.
- Water – 2.5 l.
- Bay leaf – 1 pc.
- Onion – 1 pc.
- Flour – 70 g-80 g (or 0.5 tbsp. 200 g)
- Egg – 2 pcs.
- Salt – 1/3 tsp.
Method of preparation: First, prepare chicken broth. To do this, place the meat, chopped onion and bay leaf in a pan. Fill with water, add a little salt and bring to a boil.
After boiling, cook the meat for another 40-50 minutes over low heat. Remove the finished chicken from the broth and divide it into small pieces and return it back to the pan; you can discard the onion.
At this stage, taste the broth for salt and add more spices if necessary.
For the dumplings, mix flour, eggs and a little salt in a bowl.
Using a spoon, add the dough to boiling water. Cook for 5 minutes, then add the herbs and turn off the heat.
Let sit for about 5-10 minutes before serving. Pour broth with dumplings and meat into plates
Cooking method with chicken
And if you also divide the chicken meat into fibers and add it to the soup, you will get an even more nutritious dish!
Moreover, they sell very inexpensive soup sets where you put the neck and wings. Not everyone likes to eat bones, so you can get a good broth from them, and also remove some meat.
Ingredients:
- Chicken
- 2 onions
- carrot
- 2 potatoes
- 1 egg
- salt/sugar for dumplings (dumplings)
- half a glass of kefir
- 1 tsp Vegetable oil
- half a glass of flour
- soda
1. Place the onion in the broth with the boiling chicken.
2. We lower the potatoes into it.
3. To make the broth clear, then the potatoes need to be soaked in cold water to wash off unnecessary starch.
4. Add the chopped carrots there.
5. Pour a little salt and sugar into the egg, beat and pour in kefir and 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil.
6. Add flour through a sieve so that the dough is airy and saturated with oxygen.
7. At the very end, add a little soda.
The dough should be thicker than thick sour cream. It should stay on the spoon for a while, and only then fall off.
Let the mixture sit for 10 minutes.
8. Dip a spoon in cold water and lower the dumpling dough into the soup. You need to cook them for 2 minutes.
If you overcook them, they will be hard and not tasty.
You can check the readiness with a knife; in the photo the dumplings are not cooked yet.
We cut one lump and the dough inside should be homogeneous, not raw.
The most delicious soup with meatballs and dumplings
In this recipe we will prepare dumplings from semolina, which also turns out delicious.
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 300 gr
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Carrots – 1 piece
- Broth or water
- Salt, dry seasonings
- Minced meat – 300 gr
- Black allspice
- Dry ground garlic
- Eggs - 2 pcs
- Semolina - 6 tablespoons
Method of preparation: First, prepare the dough for the dumplings. Salt the eggs and beat them in a bowl, add semolina. Stir and leave to infuse for 15 minutes.
Place a saucepan on the fire and pour in vegetable oil. Heat it well and fry finely chopped onion in it. Cut the carrots into small cubes and add to the onion, fry a little over low heat.
For meatballs, take any minced meat, add salt, pepper and ground garlic. Mix and form small balls. Add the finished meatballs to the pan where the onions and carrots are located, fry a little, then add water.
Cut the raw potatoes into cubes and add to the soup. Bring the broth to a boil, then cook until the potatoes are half cooked. Using a spoon, scoop up the semolina dough and place the dumplings into the boiling soup.
When the dumplings float to the surface, cook them for a couple more minutes. At this stage, we also check the dish for salt and add dry seasonings. Before serving, let the dish sit for 10-15 minutes.
This soup is a pleasure to prepare. In addition to these ingredients, you can experiment with cereals. Buckwheat or rice will make this dish more satisfying. Also try adding different vegetables. If you don't eat meat, beans or other legumes are a worthy substitute.
How to cook soup with dumplings and meatballs in Ukrainian
The usual soup with dumplings can be prepared according to an interesting recipe by adding meatballs to it. Ukrainian soup turns out tasty and satisfying. It is in Ukraine that dumplings are called dumplings and are most often prepared paired with meatballs. Try it for your health.
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Ingredients:
- Potatoes – 2-3 pcs.
- Carrot – 1 pc.
- Onion – 1 pc.
- Greenery
- Minced chicken – 150 g
- Mayonnaise – 1 tbsp. l.
- Egg – 1 pc.
- Semolina – 1 tbsp. l.
Step-by-step preparation
1. Put water on fire. Take half of the vegetables, namely potatoes, carrots, onions and cut into small pieces, add to boiling water. Salt the water.
2. Now you can prepare the frying. Finely chop the onion and carrot.
3. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil, add onions and carrots.
4. Place minced meat in a container, add grated onion there using a medium grater. Add onions, peppers and mix.
5. Beat the egg into a separate bowl, mix with a whisk, add mayonnaise, semolina, and stir thoroughly. Add salt and pepper. If the consistency is thin, you can add a little flour to make a thick mixture. Let stand for 10 minutes.
6. Once the potatoes and vegetables are cooked, you can add the cooked meatballs. They are very easy to prepare - you just need to roll the minced meat into small balls with wet hands.
7. Add bay leaf, allspice and you can add frying. Now you can add the dumplings.
8. Finely chop the greens and add to the finished soup. Leave to boil for a couple of minutes and you are ready to serve.
It turned out to be an excellent soup. Spring-summer option. And the more green, the better.
