Cooking dumplings with potatoes

Vareniki - a dish very popular, and it's not surprising. After all, it is very tasty, nourishing, cheap and, in addition, you can prepare vareniki with a wide variety of fillings. For example, with potatoes.

The process of cooking any vareniki can be divided into three stages. First, you need to prepare the dough, then the filling and, finally, to dazzle and boil the vareniki themselves.

Dough for cooking dumplings you can use dumplings or cook it on kefir.

If the first option is chosen, then we will take two eggs witha teaspoon of salt, then mix them with two glasses of cold water. We mix it and start pouring the flour into it, mixing it. We need to get a cool dough. Ready-made dumpling dough should be put under a bowl or in a polyethylene bag and left for half an hour, so that the gluten of flour swelled.

If it is decided to mold vareniki with potatoes from dough,mixed with kefir, then we use the following recipe. Take a glass of yogurt, add to it half a spoonful of soda and a pinch of salt and mix. Then we will begin to pour in this mixture a flour, well vymeshivaja. Flour will require about four glasses, the dough should be quite steep. Before you begin to sculpt vareniki, the test should be allowed to distance for half an hour. When using this recipe, soda can be replaced with a disintegrant.

You can cook and lean dumplings with potatoesfrom the custard batter. In this case, the flour is mixed with salt and boiled with boiling water. The dough is kneaded until it stops sticking to the hands.

Now you need to take care of the filling. Most often for this use mashed potatoes. Potatoes are cleaned, boiled, then decocted and a little dried potatoes. Now mash potatoes and add butter and, if necessary, add salt, add black pepper. Many cook stuffing with mashed potatoes and onion. To do this, fry the onions in oil, and then fill them with mashed potatoes.

You can cook vareniki with potatoes with differentadditives. For example, in the filling can be added boiled and finely chopped mushrooms or cooked and crushed in a blender liver. In short, there are many options for preparing the filling.

By the way, for the preparation of the filling the potatoes are notbe sure to boil. Many prefer to cook vareniki with raw potatoes. Prepare the filling for this dish is very simple. Potatoes should be simply grated and mixed with soft butter. Of course, the filling should not forget to salt. Attention! Do not prepare a lot of fillings at once, because grated potatoes can darken.

These vareniki can be prepared with onions. In this case, you need to cut potatoes and onions in very small cubes, mix and season. During the modeling of vareniki, it is better to place the bowl with the inclined to drain excess juice.

You can cook dumplings with raw potatoes andfat. In this case, potatoes, onions and lard need to be passed through a meat grinder. If the fat is used salted, then it is not necessary to add salt to the filling. The proportions of the products can be varied to your liking, but the fat and onions, of course, should be less than the potatoes. When preparing this version of the filling, potatoes should be crushed in the first place and squeezed out of it extra juice.

Well, the dough and the filling are ready, you can sculptvareniki. To do this, roll out a thin flat cake, cut it from a glass of billet. Then we take one circle, we put a spoonful of stuffing in its center and connect the edges.

Boil vareniki in large quantitiessalted boiling water. They will be ready after five minutes of boiling. You can cook them in a double boiler. We serve vareniki with potatoes with butter, sour cream or tomato sauce. You can also prepare for them a dressing from fried in oil onions and carrots. It is better not to boil vareniki for future use, they are tasty only in hot form. Therefore for storage it is better to freeze raw vareniki.