You can try to take a fresh look at the already familiar dumplings and diversify your menu with unusual recipes. For example, dumplings can be baked in portioned pots by adding vegetables, cheese, mushrooms, herbs and seasoning with tomato or creamy sauce. Simple and amazingly delicious!
The subtleties of cooking
Preparing this dish is not difficult at all - just distribute the prepared dumplings among the pots, add the desired ingredients and place in the oven. Dumplings with mushrooms baked in pots, dumplings with cheese gravy, sour cream, tomato sauce are very appetizing.
Such a dish turns out to be juicy, aromatic and satisfying - it can successfully become the main dish on the festive table. It is also good that the dumplings in pots are a complete dish, complemented by a delicious sauce.
- Always remember that food in pots without liquid tends to burn, so sauce or dressing is a must.
- For such a dish, both self-made dumplings and purchased dumplings are suitable.
- If you make dumplings yourself, then keep in mind that not all types of meat can be combined with each other. For example, it is best not to mix chicken and turkey.
- Minced chicken is rather dry, so it is advisable to add a little lard to it.
- It is better if the pots are covered with lids, but you can use dough cakes or foil for this purpose.
- Before putting the dumplings in pots, you can not boil, but lightly fry.
- You can add a little smoked brisket or ham to the sauce, then the dumplings will be even more satisfying and flavorful.
- It will be interesting if you put assorted vegetables, for example, bell peppers, tomatoes, carrots, beans, cauliflower, herbs, onions, in pots along with dumplings.
- Sprinkle everything on top with grated cheese, which, melting, will become a kind of bunch for the ingredients and give the dish a special sophistication.
Tips and tricks from experienced chefs:
- Before baking the dumplings, boil them in salted water until tender, or fry them until golden brown. Then arrange the semi-finished products in portioned pots, add vegetables stewed in vegetable oil, fried sausage or mushrooms. Mix all components with filling and sprinkle with grated cheese. You need to cook everything for 15-20 minutes at 180 degrees.
- If you are preparing frozen convenience foods, then they should be poured with a thinner sauce made of cream, sour cream or mayonnaise. You can season them with herbs, peppers, mustard, bay leaves and any other spices you like. In this case, the duration of heat treatment is doubled (40 minutes).
- For more juiciness of the finished dish, lard or butter is added to it.
- You can pour broth into pots and add vegetables, then the result is a very hearty and rich soup. Cover the pots with lids and the liquid will not evaporate. Before serving the dish, season it with a spoonful of sour cream and sprinkle with chopped herbs.
- Pots with lids made of unleavened dough look very original. The containers are simply covered with raw dough cakes and generously greased with a beaten egg. After 20 minutes, when the dough is browned, the dish is ready.
- Ready-made dumplings can be laid out on plates, or can be served directly in portioned pots, it will turn out to be very original and unusual.
- This dish allows you to use your imagination and experiment. Various additives will give him all possible shades of taste and aroma. Mustard, cream, soy sauce, mashed tomatoes, mushrooms, sausages and smoked sausages - you can add whatever you want to the dumplings pots.
The classic recipe for dumplings in pots
Thanks to this recipe, you can prepare a decent meat dish in minutes. And its taste and originality of presentation will surprise and delight even the most fastidious gourmets.
For a treat you will need:
- Your favorite dumplings - 400 gr;
- Carrot;
- Bulb;
- Sour cream - 180 gr;
- Fresh bunch of greens;
- Salt and oil.
How to cook:
First, boil the dumplings in the most usual way in salted water, it will be enough if you cook them until half cooked. Then leave them to cool.
Arrange the cooled semi-finished products in pots. Chop the carrots and onions as you like and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown.
Beat the sour cream lightly with salt and finely chopped herbs. It's a good idea to add your favorite spices too.
On top of the dumplings, put the grilled vegetables and pour over the sour cream sauce.
Cover the pots with lids and place in a preheated oven for half an hour. If there are no lids, you can replace them with pieces of foil that tightly cover the top of the container.
Dumplings in a pot in a creamy sauce
You can improve the dish, saturate it with various tastes and aromas with the help of all kinds of gravies and sauces. So, oven-baked dumplings go well with cream and other dairy products. Dumplings in a thick aromatic creamy sauce are very tasty.
To make two servings of this treat, you will need:
- Dumplings - 300 gr;
- Eggs - 2 pcs;
- ½ tbsp of heavy cream and sour cream;
- Ghee butter - 100 gr;
- Salt, spices.
How to cook:
Spread the dumplings in the butter-greased pots directly in the defrosted form. This way you will prepare the dish much faster and easier.
Beat eggs in a separate bowl, then add sour cream and cream. Mix everything well, salt, season to taste and pour over the semi-finished products.
Cover the containers with lids and place them in an oven preheated to 200 degrees. You need to bake for about half an hour.
Ready-made dumplings should be served without additional additives, since there is already a delicious creamy sauce inside the containers, the taste of which can be improved every time with the help of all kinds of herbs and spices.
Recipe for royal dumplings in a pot with mushrooms and sour cream
This dish received such a majestic name for a reason - its taste is especially rich and versatile. This is a great option for a festive lunch or dinner.
To prepare a royal treat you will need:
- Dumplings - 600 gr;
- Mushrooms (any are suitable) - 300 gr;
- Fatty sour cream - 200 gr;
- Bulb;
- Potatoes - 2 pcs;
- Processed cheese without additional flavors - 150 gr;
- 1 tbsp of butter and vegetable oil;
- Salt and spices.
How to cook:
Boil the dumplings in salted water until half cooked, then transfer them to a frying pan with a little butter and fry until a little blush.
Do not pour out the broth remaining after cooking the dumplings.
Mushrooms, you can take any kind of mushroom, wash, peel and dry with a paper towel. Chop finely.
Chop the onion, and fry together with the mushrooms in oil until transparent, the moisture should completely evaporate from the pan.
Wash the potatoes thoroughly, peel them, cut into thin slices and place on the bottom of the containers.
Spread half-finished dumplings on top of the potatoes, and then the onion-mushroom frying.
Pour all the ingredients with the remaining broth. Place the covered pots in a preheated oven. Hold them there for 20 minutes, as soon as the broth begins to slowly evaporate, you can pour the dumplings with the sauce.
To prepare the sauce, whisk sour cream and melted cheese with salt and spices. If it turns out to be too thick, then you can pour in a little water. After pouring the sauce into the dish, it should simmer for at least another half hour.
Before serving, dumplings can be sprinkled with grated hard cheese.
Dumplings with broth in pots
Dumplings with broth can adequately replace the first course. It is similar in consistency to an oriental thick soup.
To make such dumplings you will need:
- Dumplings - 0.5 kg;
- Strong meat broth - 1 l;
- Butter - 100 gr;
- Potatoes - 3-4 pcs;
- Greens - a bunch;
- Salt and spices.
How to cook:
Place the frozen dumplings with finely chopped potatoes in pots greased with melted butter. Salt everything and fill with meat broth so that it does not reach the neck by two centimeters.
Place containers in a preheated oven without covering them with lids. So they should cook within ten minutes after boiling. Then leave them for the same time in the oven slowly cooling down.
Sprinkle the dish with finely chopped herbs before serving. If desired, add a small piece of butter to each pot.
Amur-style dumplings in pots with liver
This is a real masculine hearty dish - the whole family will be happy!
You will need:
- Dumplings - 500 gr;
- Beef liver - 250 gr;
- Bulb;
- Carrot;
- Meat broth or water - 150 ml;
- Tomato paste - 30 gr;
- Flour - 30 gr;
- Bay leaf;
- Spices and salt.
How to cook:
Chop the onion and carrot, and cut the liver into strips. Fry everything together until tender.
Arrange the frozen semi-finished products in pots, add liver and vegetables, bay leaves and seasonings to them.
Fry the flour in a dry skillet until golden brown. Pour in broth or water mixed with tomato paste.
You need to cook the sauce until thickened over low heat. Salt, the sauce is ready!
Pour tomato sauce over the dumplings and put the dish in the oven for half an hour.
Serve the finished dish with pickled or fresh vegetables.
Dumplings in a pot with smoked sausages
If you do not like liver, but want to cook a hearty meat dish, you can cook a similar dish with smoked sausages.
To do this, you will need:
- Dumplings - 900 gr;
- White onion - 2 pcs;
- Smoked sausages - 250 gr;
- Hard cheese - 150 gr;
- Mayonnaise - 150 gr;
- Salt.
How to cook:
Chop the onion and fry, adding the sausages cut into thick slices.
Boil the dumplings in salted water until half cooked and place them on the bottom of the pots.
Lay the sausage and onion roast on top.
Fill the containers half with the liquid, sprinkle everything with grated cheese and coat the top with mayonnaise.
This dish should be cooked for a quarter of an hour in a preheated oven. Serve a ready-made treat with mashed potatoes or a side dish of vegetables.
Dumplings in pots with cheese
It is easy to make a full meal from dumplings; it is enough to add cheese and more vegetables to them, without sparing it. This saves you the hassle of preparing the side dish as well.
In order to feed the whole family you will need:
- Dumplings - ½ kg;
- Bulb;
- Carrot;
- Bulgarian pepper;
- Fatty sour cream - 250 gr;
- Hard cheese - 250 gr;
- Garlic - 2 cloves;
- Salt.
Finely chop the vegetables in any shape and simmer over low heat until soft. It is permissible to do this in water with a minimum amount of vegetable oil - this method is more suitable for fans of healthy food.
Boil dumplings until half cooked and arrange them in pots. Top with sour cream mixed with chopped garlic. Sprinkle everything with grated cheese.
The dish should be cooked in a preheated oven for about 20 minutes. If the sour cream is too thick, it can be slightly diluted with the broth remaining from cooking the dumplings.
Recipe for cooking dumplings in pots with the addition of tomato sauce
Such dumplings are very tasty and aromatic.
To prepare such a dish, you will need:
- Dumplings - 700 gr;
- Tomatoes - 6-7 pcs;
- Sour cream - 300 gr;
- Tomato paste without any additives - 100 gr;
- Ghee butter - 100 gr;
- Salt and spices to taste.
Pour over ripe tomatoes with boiling water, then immediately immerse in ice water. After that, the skin from them can be very easily removed. Clean them and mash them thoroughly with a fork.
Put the dumplings, without defrosting or thawing, in prepared pots, previously greased with melted butter.
Put mashed tomatoes and mixed tomato puree and sour cream on top of the semi-finished products.
Now you can add salt and season to the dish.
This interesting dish is prepared in tightly closed pots - so the gravy will not evaporate, the dumplings will not burn, but will turn out to be juicy and tasty. Keep them in the oven for at least 25-30 minutes.
If you don't have tomatoes at hand, you can successfully replace them with tomato paste, while slightly increasing its amount.
All suggested recipes can be modified by adding or removing some products. On the basis of each of them, you can create your own masterpiece. Just keep in mind that it is advisable to take small-sized semi-finished products for cooking. Small homemade semi-finished products with mixed minced meat are ideal. In this case, the dish will turn out to be especially wonderful.
