Who said dumplings with meat and dumplings are one and the same?
It is not true! Products differ not only in shape, but also in taste.
Meat dumplings surprise with a variety of fillings.
And this is easy to verify.
Here are the best recipes for dumplings with meat and not only with it!
Dumplings with meat - general principles of preparation
For meat dumplings, fresh wheat flour dough is used. It is kneaded in water, milk or another liquid with the addition of salt, eggs. Sometimes pour a little oil. The dough is made cool, sometimes it turns out very ugly, bumpy, battered. He is allowed to lie down, and after a certain time the mass becomes smooth and elastic.
The filling for dumplings is prepared from raw or boiled meat. It also has onions and garlic. Often add cabbage, potatoes, mushrooms. The use of spices and herbs is welcome.
How to sculpt dumplings
Dumplings can be sculpted in different ways and each housewife has her own option, which she uses.
1. The easiest way is to use a recessed mold for sculpting dumplings. You just need to roll out the dough from the dough, cover the mold, put the filling into the recesses and cover it with the second dough layer. Then everything is rolled with a rolling pin.
2. The second method - with the extrusion of circles. You need to pinch off a piece of dough, roll it into a layer and squeeze out circles with a glass. Then the filling is placed in each, the edges are plucked.
3. The third method - with a piece of rolling. Long tows are formed from the dough, which are then cut with transverse washers and each rolled into a small flat cake. It remains to put the filling and pinch the edges.
Dumplings with meat are boiled in boiling salted water. Time depends on the filling. If it is already ready, then two minutes is enough. Raw stuffed products take longer to cook. After boiling, it may take 10-12 minutes.
Recipe 1: Dumplings with meat (boiled)
To cook such dumplings with meat, you need boiled beef, but you can also take pork. Preferably not very oily.
Ingredients
• 2.5 cups flour;
• 350 grams of boiled meat;
• 1 onion;
• 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• salt, pepper;
• 1 egg;
• 20 grams of butter;
• 1 glass of water;
• 1 clove of garlic.
Cooking
1. Sift the flour into a bowl. We make a hole in the central part and drive an egg into it, put salt and add water. Knead the cool dough. If you suddenly need a little more flour, then we do not regret it and feel free to add it. Cover for 20 minutes with a towel, let it lay down.
2. Cooking the filling. To do this, clean the onion head, cut into cubes and passer until golden brown.
3. Finely chop or twist the meat, send it to the onion pan and lightly fry together. Season with salt and pepper. Cool the filling.
4. We take out the dough, form dumplings. How this can be done is described in detail above.
5. Pour water into the pan, boil and salt.
6. Add the dumplings, cook after boiling for three minutes and remove.
7. Lubricate with butter, serve with sour cream, ketchup, mayonnaise and any other sauces.
Recipe 2: Dumplings with meat and potato from custard dough
The recipe for amazing dumplings with meat and potatoes, which are prepared from custard dough. For the filling, boiled products are used.
Ingredients
• 3 cups flour;
• 1 egg;
• 3 tablespoons of oil;
• 1.5 cups boiling water;
• salt;
• 600 grams of potatoes;
• 2 onions;
• 400 grams of meat;
• spices and a little butter to the filling.
Cooking
1. Immediately cook the meat. The broth can be left for another dish. Cool the meat, grind it into minced meat in any way.
2. From mashed potatoes we prepare mashed potatoes on water.
3. Fry the onions in a pan and send to the filling, add meat. We taste, put spices and cool well.
4. While the filling cools, we do the test. To prepare it, we take half the prescription flour, add salt and oil to it, pour boiling water. The amount is indicated in the recipe. Quickly stir. First, the mass will fall into pieces, then come together. Add the rest of the flour and egg. We make a cool lump, let it lie down for at least fifteen minutes.
5. From the cooled filling and the prepared dough we form medium-sized dumplings.
6. Boil until tender in salted water, about two minutes.
Recipe 3: Dumplings with meat and fresh cabbage from dough in milk
Ukrainian recipe for dumplings with meat, cabbage is added to the filling. The dough can be kneaded not only on milk, but also on whey, skim milk. You can use their mixture with water.
Ingredients
• 130 ml of milk;
• 1 egg;
• 1 tablespoon of butter in the dough plus for the filling;
• 2.5 cups flour;
• 300 grams of minced meat;
• 250 grams of cabbage;
• 100 grams of onions;
• seasonings.
Cooking
1. Break the egg, salt and shake with a fork. Introduce milk, butter and flour is added last. Leave the kneaded dough for twenty minutes.
2. Heat a little oil in a pan, fry the chopped onion for a minute, and add the chopped cabbage. Fry until half cooked.
3. Mix the cabbage with raw minced meat, salt and pepper. The filling is ready.
4. We take out a lump of dough that has settled down and form dumplings.
5. Since the filling consists of raw minced meat, products are boiled for at least 7 minutes. The exact time depends on the type of meat and the size of the products. Dumplings with beef will cook longer than with pork. And they, in turn, are longer than products with chicken.
Recipe 4: Dumplings with Meat and Raw Potatoes
The dumpling for dumplings with meat according to this recipe can be kneaded in any way. If you don’t have your favorite option in stock, then you can use any recipe above. The filling is completely raw.
Ingredients
• 600 grams of dough;
• 400 grams of meat;
• 300 grams of potatoes;
• 80 grams of onions;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• salt and pepper.
Cooking
1. Twist the meat in a meat grinder with onions and peeled garlic cloves.
2. Peel the potatoes and grate. Tubers are undesirable to twist, otherwise there will be a lot of juice.
3. Add salt and pepper to the filling, stir. The dough should already be cooked by this time. Otherwise, the potato will start juice and the meat will become thinner.
4. We make dumplings.
5. Run cooked products into boiling water and cook for about ten minutes.
6. We take out, grease with oil and you can call everyone to the table!
Recipe 5: Dumplings with Meat and Sauerkraut
You can cook meat dumplings not only with fresh, but also with sauerkraut. Such products have a very bright taste. If the cabbage is too acidic, then you can pre-rinse with water. We use any dough.
Ingredients
• 0.4 kg of meat;
• 0.4 kg of cabbage;
• 2 onions;
• 30 ml of oil;
• salt;
• pepper.
Cooking
1. Cut the onions, send them to a frying pan with butter and lightly fry.
2. Squeeze the cabbage from the brine, transfer to a frying pan to the onion, cover with a lid and simmer until soft for about twenty minutes. Then remove the lid and lightly fry. Cool the filling.
3. Twist the meat and combine with cabbage. Add spices, stir.
4. We get the dough, which could be kneaded according to any recipe. We make dumplings.
5. Throw them into a pot of boiling water and boil until cooked.
6. Served meat dumplings with sour cream. They can also be seasoned with fried onions.
Recipe 6: Dumplings with Meat and Mushrooms
There are a lot of options for mushroom dumplings with meat. The filling can be cooked with boiled and cheese meat. Salty, pickled, fried mushrooms are added to it, which can be laid in pieces or twisted with minced meat. This is just one meal option. Any dough.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of meat;
• 2 onions;
• 0.4 kg of mushrooms;
• 60 grams of oil;
• salt pepper.
Cooking
1. We sort out the mushrooms, if necessary, then clean. Mushrooms can be chopped immediately and sent to fry. If forest mushrooms are used, then boil first, then decant the water well and cut into pieces.
2. Put the mushrooms in a pan with oil and fry, but not until done. It is enough to lightly brown the slices to make them golden and aromatic.
3. Twist the meat into minced meat with onions. Combine with mushrooms, add salt and pepper, stir the filling.
4. We take out already cooked and sedimented dough and sculpt dumplings.
5. Boil until fully cooked, do not forget to grease with oil, serve with sour cream.
Recipe 7: Dumplings with Meat and Pumpkin
Pumpkin goes well with meat filling for dumplings, perfectly dilutes the taste and quantity. It is better to use a ripe and juicy pumpkin. The dough can be prepared according to any of the recipes.
Ingredients
• 0.4 kg of meat;
• 0.1 kg of onions;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• salt pepper;
• 0.3 kg of pumpkin.
Cooking
1. Pass the onion with meat through a meat grinder, set aside.
2. We clean the pumpkin from seeds and skins. Cut into small cubes, send to the meat mass.
3. Salt, pepper, stir well, squeeze a clove of garlic, you can add a little chopped parsley.
4. From the dough and the prepared filling, we sculpt the dumplings, cook in the usual way.
Recipe 8: Dumplings with Meat and Rice
To prepare such dumplings, boiled rice is added to the filling. But this is not the only option for the preparation of cereal products. You can also add buckwheat, it also turns out quite tasty.
Ingredients
• 50 grams of rice;
• 500 grams of meat;
• 1 onion;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• salt with pepper;
• dough.
Cooking
1. Put rice in salted water and cook until almost ready. Grains should not boil. Drain the broth, leave the rice to cool.
2. Peel the onion and clove of garlic. Less meat slices. We twist it all together through a meat grinder.
3. Combine boiled rice with minced meat, season with spices and stir.
4. It remains only to mold dumplings and boil. Since raw meat goes to the filling, it will take about ten minutes.
5. Lubricate with oil, serve.
Dumplings with meat - useful tips and tricks
• It is not necessary to boil dumplings in water. This can also be done in pairs. To do this, the formed products are placed in a single layer in a double boiler and cook until cooked.
• No less tasty are fried dumplings with meat. And you can cook them yourself or add sauces, mushrooms, vegetables, eggs to the pan. Dumplings can also be baked in the oven under cheese.
• You can freeze not only raw dumplings. If you can cook more than necessary, then you can also send the excess to the freezer. But only while they are fresh. Then the products can be fried or baked in the oven.
• Liver, lung and other liver are great ingredients that can be added to minced meat. They will make the taste of dumplings different, and also reduce the cost of the dish.
• Unleavened dough dries quickly and then forms poorly. To prevent this from happening, you need to cut it in small portions, and keep the rest under an inverted bowl or in a plastic bag.
