If you have some dough left after making the dumplings, don't be discouraged. A huge number of other dishes can be prepared from it - light, tasty and healthy. Their preparation does not take much time, and they themselves will definitely please all household members.
If the hostess prepares dumplings at home, she often has excess dough. You need to use it as soon as possible, otherwise the dough will dry out and nothing will work out of it. Do not store the dumplings dough without a shell, be sure to wrap it in a bag or film and put it in the refrigerator. And when there is time, take it out and gently knead it with your hands. There are a great many recipes for dumplings.
The simplest dishes
Quickly and simply, noodles and "bows" are prepared from dumplings. For the noodles, roll out the remaining dough into a thin layer and cut into narrow strips. The thinner and more graceful these stripes come out, the better the noodles will look. Ready noodles are immediately added to chicken or meat broth, or laid out on a board to dry, and then put away for storage. Such noodles are much healthier, and most importantly tastier than store-bought noodles.
"Bows" are also easy to prepare. The dough is rolled out and circles are cut out of it, as for dumplings. But you don’t need to put the filling in the “bows” - each circle just gathers into an “accordion” in the middle. Bows are boiled in salted water or broth, and served with butter, sugar or grated cheese. Such products can be frozen, like dumplings.
To make dumplings, first roll the remaining dumplings onto sausages, and then mash each sausage into a strip about 3-4 cm wide. Such strips should be slightly thicker than tortillas for dumplings. Let the dough dry, then cut each strip to the width into short dumplings. The dumplings can be dried and stored like pasta, but are best used immediately. They go well with goulash and other meat dishes.
More complex dishes
From the remnants of dumplings, you can make well-known dumplings. The fillings are used at home - boiled potatoes, cottage cheese, mushrooms, sauerkraut, cherries. Dumplings can be made for future use - that is, freeze them in the freezer, then take them out and cook when convenient.
A delicious dish for breakfast or dinner will be dumplings with filling. For cooking, you need to roll out the cakes of the same thickness as on the dumplings, but larger in size. Thinly sliced sausage or ham, a little cheese are placed on one half of the flatbread, then everything is covered with the second half of the flatbread, as is done for making pasties. The dish is laid out in a frying pan with butter and fried a little so that the dough is cooked, and the sausage and cheese are warmed up.
Another great dish is the dumplings roll. You can choose the filling to taste. The dough is rolled out in a thin layer, best of all in the form of a large circle, smeared with sour cream or mayonnaise. On the layer of dough, a filling is evenly applied in a thin layer - minced meat or minced meat mixed with finely chopped vegetables - tomatoes, carrots, pepper. Then scatter a few small pieces of butter over the entire surface. The roll is wrapped and laid out in a double boiler. The dish is cooked for 40-45 minutes, served with sour cream, ketchup, sauces.
