Not everyone loves first courses. But if you cook a soup with dumplings, there will be more connoisseurs of such food. After all, you can use milk, chicken, tomato or buckwheat broth, and make dumplings from vegetables, cereals, cheese or flour. Everyone will be able to choose the most preferred products and get their favorite recipe.
Dumpling soup is a great option for those who want to eat healthy, healthy and satisfying. There are many different recipes for preparing such a first course. Therefore, both meat lovers and vegetarians will find a suitable recipe for themselves.
Classic dumpling soup
It is cooked in meat broth. Such a first course can be eaten without bread, since the classic dumplings made with wheat flour completely replace it.
To make soup, take:
- 3 liters of water;
- 900 g of beef;
- 9 potatoes;
- 4 black peppercorns;
- 4 bay leaves;
- salt to taste;
- for serving - sour cream and herbs.
The dumpling recipe includes the following ingredients:
- 2 cups wheat flour;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 glass of milk;
- salt to taste;
- 4 tbsp. l. butter.
- First you need to cook homemade soup. To do this, rinse the meat well, fill it with three liters of cold water. Put the saucepan on fire, bring to a boil. Then remove the foam with a slotted spoon, cook over low heat for 45 minutes. It remains to add salt, black peppercorns, bay leaf and cook for another 20 minutes.
- While the meat and water turn into a fragrant broth, you need to cook the dumplings. Their value is that they contain carbohydrates that will help you quickly feel full. But since the broth itself contains few calories, this dish belongs to the lungs.
- Whisk in butter, egg and salt, then add milk and whisk a little more. Now pour the sifted flour into this mass and knead the dough thoroughly. Cover it so it doesn't dry out.
- Remove the meat from the finished broth, cool it, cut into pieces. Strain the rich liquid, put it back on fire. When the broth boils, add the diced potatoes and cook for 10 minutes.
- It's time to shape the dumplings. Place a glass of water next to you, periodically lower a spoon here, then use it to take the dough and put it in the boiling broth. Cook the soup for another 10 minutes, then place the slices of meat in it and simmer for 5 minutes. Serve this dish with sour cream, sprinkle with chopped herbs.
Dumplings can be formed in another way. To do this, pour flour onto the work surface, put the dough here and roll a sausage out of it. Dip a knife in flour periodically and cut this sausage into small circles. These will be the dumplings. Instead of beef, you can use chicken, turkey, or lean pork.
The next recipe is also step-by-step, so it's very clear.
First dish in chicken broth with semolina dumplings
Not every child enjoys semolina porridge with pleasure, but in this form this cereal will go with a bang. Chicken is very useful for adults and kids, so this homemade dish is suitable for dietary meals. You will need the most common products, for the soup these are:
- 2 liters of water;
- 600 g of chicken;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 onion;
- 4 potatoes;
- 2 tbsp. l. semolina.
- The dumplings include:
- 1 egg;
- 4 tbsp. l. semolina;
- a pinch of salt.
Rinse a piece of chicken, dip it in cold water. Put the broth on fire. After boiling, remove the foam and cook for 40 minutes. Peel the onion and chop it, coarsely grate the carrots. Cut the peeled potatoes into cubes.
Remove the chicken from the broth, put the prepared vegetables in its place and cook them for a quarter of an hour. During this time, you can make ordinary but delicious dumplings. Put the semolina in a bowl, add the chicken egg and salt, knead the dough. Put half a teaspoon of this mixture into the boiling broth. Salt it, cook for another 7 minutes. Now pour the semolina intended for the soup in a thin stream, stirring, cook for another 5 minutes. Turn off heat, add herbs to the pan. Let the dish sit for 10 minutes with the lid closed. It is now ready to serve.
A photo of this dish shows how delicious it turns out to be. The next soup is no less cute and also very tasty.
Prikumskie rags
This is the original name for a simple homemade soup. It is cooked in tomato broth, and Cossack dumplings are called dumplings, which are also dumplings.
Take:
- 1.5 liters of water;
- 600 g of beef;
- 1 onion;
- 2 tbsp. l. tomato paste;
- 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
- salt;
- 1 clove of garlic;
- 5 g parsley.
The recipe for rags includes:
- 1 egg;
- 1 cup flour;
- 3 tbsp. l. water;
- a pinch of salt.
- Rinse the meat and cut into large cubes, then place in the water. Bring it to a boil. After removing the foam, cook for 30 minutes.
- Fry the chopped onions in vegetable oil in a skillet until they become translucent. Then add the tomato paste and stir. Simmer this dressing for about 6 minutes. Don't skip this step, as frying tomato paste over low heat is a trick that will allow the soup to have a more beautiful rich color.
- To further make a successful and original dish, put the tomato dressing in the boiling broth, cook for another 10 minutes. Prepare the dumplings. The presented proportions of ingredients for them will make it possible to make an elastic pliable dough. Mix all the ingredients for the dumplings, then cover the dough with a towel and let it rest for 15 minutes.
- Now you can put the pieces of dough into the broth. They live up to their name. After all, you will tear them off from the main piece of dough. After about 5-6 minutes, the dumplings will float in the boiling broth, after another couple of minutes you can remove the soup from the heat. It remains to finely chop the herbs and garlic, add some of these vegetables to the plate for each gourmet and pour the soup with dumplings here.
If you are not indifferent to dairy products, then pay attention to the next dish. It contains a whole range of ingredients of this type.
Milk soup with cheese dumplings
Take:
- 2 liters of milk;
- 500 ml of water;
- 500 g flour;
- 100 g of processed cheese;
- 2 eggs;
- 100 g of cottage cheese;
- 2 tbsp. l. butter;
- salt.
Put water on fire. Mix flour, eggs, cottage cheese, melted cheese and salt into a dough. Roll it into a sausage and cut into small circles. Dip the resulting dumplings in boiled water, cook them for 5 minutes.
Heat the milk. Pour it into portioned bowls, add a little butter and dumplings, which you remove from the boiling water with a slotted spoon, to each one.
If you like mushrooms, chicken, buckwheat, then the following recipe is for you. And the dumplings here are potato.
Buckwheat mushroom soup
Take for dumplings:
- 3 potatoes;
- 4 tbsp. l. flour;
- 1 egg;
- salt.
For soup you will need:
- 2 liters of chicken broth;
- 1 onion;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 chicken fillet;
- 250 g champignons;
- 1 bay leaf;
- 0.5 cups buckwheat;
- vegetable oil;
- greens;
- salt.
Cut the mushrooms into slices, grate the carrots on a coarse grater, chop the onion. First, fry the mushrooms in a pan in vegetable oil, then add salt, onions and carrots. Cook for another 5 minutes.
To make a dumpling dough, take a potato boiled in a jacket, peel it, mash it. Add the rest of the dumplings here and stir.
Boil water, add buckwheat, put fillet cut into pieces. Put the dumplings in this broth with a wet spoon, cook everything together for another 5 minutes. Serve herb soup.
These are the simple, but very interesting first courses you can now cook at home. If there is no meat at home or you are vegetarians, then using vegetable broth rather than meat would be an excellent option. Herbs and seasonings will make it more flavorful.
