Dumplings are a meat and dough dish loved by many. Often, for the New Year holidays, housewives prepare a lot of this delicacy. Agree, it's very convenient - guests came, took out the dumplings from the freezer, boiled them - and the treat is ready. Also today, when semi-finished products can be purchased in the store, this dish has become very popular with bachelors and students. But if you eat dumplings every day, they quickly get bored. However, their taste can be varied.
Tips for housewives
You can diversify the taste of homemade dumplings in a variety of ways. For example, slightly change the filling. Make one part of the minced meat dumplings and the other part of the minced meat. You can also take, in addition to the usual pork and beef dumplings, chicken, goose or duck meat. Also try experimenting with spices. In some dumplings, add only onion and garlic, in others - adjika and fresh herbs. By the way, stuffing for dumplings is made not only from meat. Together with minced meat, you can wrap mushrooms, vegetables and fruits in dough.
There is another very interesting recipe for dumplings - from fish. For the dough, take 2 cups flour, 2 eggs, 1/3 cup ice-cold carbonated mineral water and salt to taste. Knead a very tough dough out of everything. For the filling, you need one large onion, carrots, a little flour and vegetable oil. And also about one kilogram of different fish. For example, you can take fillets of salmon, tuna and pollock.
Remove all bones from the fish and cut it into small pieces. Place the different types of fish in separate bowls. Then season the salmon with saffron, tuna with lemon juice, fennel and garlic, and pollock with dill. Let it brew for five to ten minutes. Add some salt and fish spices. And then sculpt dumplings, wrapping first one filling in the dough, then the other. As a result, you get dumplings with three different flavors. Boil them in salted water as usual before serving.
Among other things, you can change the recipe for the dough. Knead it out of rye, rice, buckwheat, or cornmeal. Change the color of the dough by adding natural dyes to it. For example, yellow dumplings are obtained by adding a little turmeric to the dough, orange dumplings - curry or freshly squeezed carrot juice, red dumplings - tomato, raspberry or beetroot juice.
Tips for Singles
You can give a new taste to store-bought dumplings. Eat this dish with different sauces each time. Today with ketchup, tomorrow with sour cream, the day after tomorrow make a mixture of ketchup, mayonnaise and mustard. Add a little butter to the cooked dumplings, pepper them or sprinkle with fresh herbs.
Dumplings can be cooked not only. They can be fried. Heat vegetable oil or butter in a skillet. Place the frozen dumplings there. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Brown the dumplings on all sides over medium heat. Then pour in some water so that it covers the bottom of the pan and cover with a lid. Wait for the water to evaporate and remove from heat, transfer the dumplings to a dish and serve with your favorite sauce.
You can also bake dumplings with vegetables in the oven. Simmer a large onion, carrot and bell pepper for 5-7 minutes in vegetable oil. Add salt and spices to taste, a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste and fresh herbs. Squeeze the garlic through a press. Boil the dumplings, discard in a colander to glass the water. And then place in a baking dish. Pour all with vegetable sauce, sprinkle with grated cheese on top. Bake the dish in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 10-15 minutes.
Among other things, you can cook soup with dumplings, cook them in clay pots along with mushrooms or vegetables in sour cream, make omelets, casseroles and other dishes. The main thing is a little imagination, and the usual dumplings will amaze you and your guests with a new taste.
