Dumplings with raw potatoes: a dish from childhood - and no meat needed

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Prepared by: Dashuta

05/06/2014 Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes

The beauty of this wonderful dish is that it combines ease of preparation, economy and amazing taste; these dumplings are an excellent option for a hearty dinner or lunch.

The simplest option

Sometimes housewives confuse two completely different dishes: dumplings and dumplings. These products differ from each other in several ways:

1. Type of test. For dumplings, it must be fresh.
2. Filling composition. In the first case, it is minced meat or fish. All other options refer to dumplings. The main feature of the filling for dumplings is that it should not be sweet.
3. State of the filling. The mixture is prepared for dumplings. The filling of dumplings is always raw.
4. Product form. Dumplings are usually made round. Although other options are known.

By violating one of these characteristics, you can obtain a product that, according to other indicators, retains its belonging to one or another type. Take, for example, dumplings with potatoes.

The simplest version of their preparation provides the following recipe composition.

For the dough: 0.3 kilograms of flour, salt, 2 eggs, 5 grams of vegetable oil and 70 milliliters of water.

For the filling: 8 potatoes, salt, 6 onions and ground pepper.

Dumplings with potatoes are prepared as follows:

1. First you need to make the dough. To do this, mix all the ingredients thoroughly in a deep bowl. At the first stage, you can use a mixer, and then do the final kneading with your hands.
2. To make the filling, vegetables must first be peeled, washed, and then chopped using a knife or modern choppers. After this, you can add the remaining ingredients to taste.
3. Roll out the dough, and then use a mold or a regular glass to cut out neat round pieces from it.
4. Place some of the filling on each piece and carefully pinch the edges.

After this, all that remains is to cook the finished dumplings in boiling water with added salt. This may take 7-8 minutes.

Homemade dumplings - a very tasty recipe:

This food will always be the most delicious. After all, we do it with love. It turns out this way because you always want to eat it.

Ingredients:

• Beef – 400 gr.;
• Pork – 200 gr.;
• Onions – 2 pcs.;
• Garlic – 4 cloves;
• Salt, pepper - to taste;
• Dough.

Preparation:

1. Wash the meat and remove the veins from it. Cut into pieces for a meat grinder. We also peel the onion and garlic and cut it into slices for convenience. Let's twist it all up. Add salt and pepper to taste and then stir.

2. Roll out the dough on the table to a thickness of 3–4 mm and, using a glass or some other form, cut out the dumplings.

3. Take the workpiece and slightly flatten the dough with your hands. Take the minced meat with a spoon or fork and place it on the workpiece. Fold in half and seal the edges with your fingers. Then we connect the ends on both sides together. We got a wonderful small dumpling.

Place the finished ones on a board sprinkled with flour and put them in the freezer or on the balcony. When they freeze, put them in a bag for convenience.

Mixed filling

Considering the fact that according to the rules there must be meat inside the dumplings, you can prepare products with mixed fillings. In fact, in this case, only one of the distinctive features of this product is violated. The result is very tasty dumplings with potatoes and minced meat. The vegetable component here will be just a small addition. To prepare these dumplings you will need:

800 grams of flour, 0.5 kilograms of minced meat, egg, 300 milliliters of water, 1 potato, salt, 5 onions and vegetable oil.

Preparing meat and potato dumplings is easy:

1. First you can do the filling. To do this, you need to grind the vegetables (onions and potatoes) in a meat grinder, and then add them to the meat along with salt.
2. To make the dough, first of all you need to whisk the egg with water and 2 tablespoons of oil. Then, gradually adding flour, make the final knead. The dough should not stick too much to your hands.
3. To make dumplings, you can use a special mold for modeling. After this, you need to separate a piece from the dough and roll it into a layer no more than 3 millimeters thick.
4. Cover the mold with it and press firmly so that it falls slightly into the holes.
5. Fill the resulting voids with the prepared mixture, and then cover the mold with another similar layer and roll it on top with a rolling pin. As a result, the finished dumplings will be able to separate.

After that, all that remains is to simply cook them. For more flavor, in addition to salt, you can add bay leaves to the water.

How long does it take to steam dumplings?

Multicookers have a special “Steam” mode. The steaming time is programmed automatically.

1. Place in a special basket for steaming food, pre-lubricated with oil, and lower the basket into the multicooker.
2. Cover with a lid and set the required cooking mode.
3. In about 15 minutes the dumplings will be ready

Dumplings can also be steamed in a slow cooker.

IMPORTANT: Please note that steamed dumplings look slightly different than those cooked in a pan

Dumplings in Belarusian

From time immemorial, dumplings have been considered a Russian dish. Over time, they appeared in the national cuisines of other countries, adapted in accordance with local taste preferences. For example, Belarusians have their own dumplings with potatoes, the recipe of which is somewhat different from the usual version. To prepare them, you need to take:

For the dough: for 170 milliliters of water - 3 cups of flour, 1 egg, salt and 15-20 grams of vegetable oil.

For the filling: 450 grams of potatoes, a teaspoon of salt, two onions, 100 grams of soft cheese and 35 grams of vegetable oil.

The process technology in this case will be slightly different:

1. To prepare the dough, first break the egg in a bowl of salted water, then add the butter, and beat it all well.
2. Pour the flour onto the table, make a small depression in it and pour the prepared mixture into it. The dough must be kneaded until it stops sticking to your hands.
3. The potatoes for the filling must first be boiled, and then, after draining the water, mash them into a puree.
4. Chop the onion randomly and lightly fry in a frying pan.
5. Combine the products by adding the remaining ingredients.
6. Divide the dough into pieces, and then roll out each part into a small round cake.
7. Place part of the filling in the center of each of them and, pinching the edges, connect the ends in the form of a crescent.

After boiling in salted water, the finished products should be caught with a slotted spoon and served with butter.

Dumplings with chopped potatoes

Potatoes occupy one of the leading positions in Russian cuisine! What can they not cook from it! So it came to dumplings... I first learned the taste of dumplings with chopped potatoes in Bashkiria, where my whole family went to visit our relatives. I already wrote to you that my roots are from there. My grandfathers and great-grandfathers lived there. And so, it was there that I saw how this dish was prepared. My grandmother was an excellent cook and cook, and when we came to visit, she always spoiled us with her cooking! Even ordinary bread, baked by her in a real Russian oven, cannot be compared with any other bread! I still remember this taste well!

There were other delicacies, of course, but when a special wooden trough and a special hoe for it were brought into the kitchen from the closet, it immediately became clear to everyone - there would be dumplings! Unfortunately, these instruments remained in Bashkiria. You can, of course, set a goal and make them yourself, or order them somewhere to have them made, because I have never seen such things on sale anywhere.

The trough is a wooden tub cut from the chock of a fruit tree so that the juice released by potatoes and onions does not acquire a bitter and unpleasant taste when chopped. The hoe used to chop potatoes is a rounded steel blade 15-20 cm wide, on a straight wooden handle 40-50 cm long.

Potatoes and onions are placed in a trough and chopped until they become a homogeneous mass with granules of about 5 mm. However, before doing the filling, we first need to knead the dough!

We will need regular classic dumpling dough. Who knows how this dough is made, you can skip the following description of this procedure, but if this is the first time for someone, then I’ll tell you how I do it...

Main stages of the process

Essentially, dumplings are lean dumplings with fillings chosen at the discretion of the hostess. True, sometimes it does not correspond to the name of the dish. For example, there are dumplings with potatoes. The step-by-step recipe with photos allows you to better examine all stages of the process and notice the fundamental similarities with the standard version. For this dish you will need:

for 400 grams of potatoes - 350 grams of flour, 2 onions, 5 grams of salt, a quarter teaspoon of ground black pepper, 8 grams of dill, 100 grams of carrots, as well as 30 milliliters of olive and 40 milliliters of any other vegetable oil.

The whole process consists of several sequential steps:

1. To prepare the dough, flour must be mixed with salt, and then, adding 150 milliliters of warm water, knead into a stiff dough.
2. To increase elasticity, it should be placed in a plastic bag for 50 minutes.
3. Boil the peeled potatoes in lightly salted water.
4. Chop the onion randomly, and to chop the carrots it is better to use a fine grater.
5. After this, the products should be lightly fried in olive oil.
6. Mash the potatoes in any convenient way. Add vegetable oil, two-thirds of sautéed vegetables and the remaining ingredients to the resulting mass.
7. Roll out the dough into an even layer, then cut out circles from it using a regular glass.
8. Fill each piece with filling and secure the joints.

After this, the products, sprinkled with flour, can be sent to the freezer. They can be taken out and boiled at any time.

How long and how to cook dumplings in a slow cooker?

IMPORTANT: Cooking time will take 35 – 40 minutes, depending on the multicooker model

In a multicooker, dumplings are cooked in the “Soup” or “Stew” modes.

1. To cook dumplings in a slow cooker, you must first boil water in it. To do this, pour it into a container and turn on the “Soup” mode.
2. When the water has already boiled and salted, dump the dumplings into the bowl, stirring them, otherwise they may stick together
3. Set the multicooker to the “Cooking” mode, close the device tightly with the lid
4. The dumplings will cook for about 15 minutes.
5. When ready, they are caught with a slotted spoon and the remaining water is drained. Add butter, sour cream, pepper to the dumplings, everything to taste

The original way

How else can you cook dumplings with potatoes? The good thing about the recipe in pots is that the product is immediately ready for use. True, before this, each of the semi-finished products used must be made using the following set of products:

For the dough: for 150 milliliters of water - 3 cups of flour, 10 grams of salt and 1 egg.

For the filling: 7 potatoes, salt, 100 grams of dried mushrooms, 2 onions and 35 grams of vegetable oil.

For the sauce: per glass of sour cream - 10 grams of flour, as well as a tablespoon of butter and tomato paste.

In addition, you will need to add 50 grams of grated cheese and the same amount of butter to the pot.

Everything is prepared very quickly:

1. First, you need to knead the dough from the prepared ingredients, and then, covering it with a towel, leave it for 40 minutes.
2. To make the filling, the mushrooms must first be soaked, then boiled in salted water, cut and fried with chopped onions in a frying pan.
3. To make the sauce, the sautéed flour needs to be combined with the rest of the ingredients and simmered a little.
4. After rolling the dough into a rope, divide it into pieces.
5. Put a little filling on each of them and secure the edges randomly.
6. Place the finished dumplings in boiling water and wait until they float to the surface.
7. Place butter at the bottom of the pot. After that, pour the dumplings into it, pour the sauce over them and sprinkle with grated cheese on top.

Next, the pots need to be placed in the oven for 15-25 minutes, having previously set the temperature to 185 degrees.

Recipe with meat and broth inside

It is clear that the minced meat releases juice and the dumplings are already made with broth. But only a little of it, and in some cases none at all. To make a broth, I suggest making them according to this recipe. Many people call them "bulmen".

Ingredients:

• Pork – 100 gr.;
• Beef – 200 gr.;
• Onions – 1 pc.;
• Butter – 50 gr.;
• Salt, pepper 0 to taste;
• Dough.

Preparation:

1. Prepare minced meat. To do this, grind the pork and beef in a meat grinder along with the onion. Salt and pepper to taste. Mix thoroughly.

To make the minced meat homogeneous, it must be beaten out. Take it in your hands and throw it back on the table. Do this about 10 times.

2. The butter should be slightly frozen or at least from the refrigerator. Cut it into small 1 x 1 cm squares.

3. Make dough pieces. Cut one small piece from a large piece and roll it into a sausage. We cut it into pieces and roll it into circles. We take one piece and put minced meat and a piece of butter in the middle. You can add two pieces of butter to make more broth. Now we connect the edges and get a dumpling.

Complex filling

To make the dumplings more tender and aromatic, you can make a special filling for them. For it you will need: for 600 grams of potatoes - 1 egg, 5 grams of salt, 20 grams of butter, 1 gram of ground pepper, 2 onions and 50 milliliters of whole milk.

The dough components are standard: 500 grams of flour, a glass of water, 2 eggs and 10 grams of salt.

How are these potato dumplings made? The step-by-step recipe for this set of products will be slightly different from the previous options:

1. First, the potatoes must be washed, peeled, and then boiled, adding a little salt to the water. This will take about 25 minutes.
2. Finely chop the onion and fry in butter.
3. Mash the potatoes and, adding the remaining ingredients, prepare a soft filling.
4. Pour the flour into a bowl, add eggs and salt, and then, adding water, prepare a stiff dough. Before cutting, you need to let it stand for 30 minutes, covered with a napkin.
5. On a table sprinkled with flour, roll out the dough so that the thickness of the layer is at least three millimeters.
6. Using a mold, cut out round pieces.
7. Fill them with filling and press the edges tightly.

The finished dumplings just need to be boiled. For flavor, in addition to salt, you can add a little broth to the water. The finished products are tender, soft and very tasty.

How much and how to cook dumplings in the microwave?

It is better to cook dumplings in the microwave in portions, per person. You need to remember about dishes that are suitable for cooking in the microwave. It should be glass or ceramic dishes.

You can cook dumplings in a pot in the microwave.

1. You need to pour water into a saucepan, put it in the microwave, boil the water
2. Remove the pot of boiling water from the microwave, salt the water and put the dumplings in it, stirring them and separating them from each other
3. Cover the pan with dumplings and put it in the microwave again
4. Set the time mode for approximately 5 - 6 minutes, depending on how powerful the microwave is

IMPORTANT: If you take a shallow pan for cooking and pour less water into it, also cover the pan with a lid and put it in the microwave, then the dumplings will cook as if they were steamed

How long does it take to cook large dumplings? How long to cook small dumplings?

The duration of cooking dumplings depends on their size.

Naturally, large dumplings should be cooked longer than small ones. If the cooking time for dumplings is indicated on the package, for the housewife this is the solution to all issues. If the dumplings are homemade, don’t worry, if they cook a little longer, it won’t make them any worse. So, be prepared to wait 10-15 minutes.