Dumplings - a dish familiar to every ordinary inhabitant from childhood. This is pretty straightforward baking from Russian folk cuisine. Prepared by frying in a pan, often contains various fillings. The dough for crumpets can be used both yeast and yeast-free. Here are some simple cooking options.
Classic dumplings in milk
This is perhaps the easiest way to cook crumpets. First you need to sift half a kilogram of wheat flour (suitable first grade). Then you need to pour half a pack of dry yeast into it (if someone prefers to use pressed yeast, they need 16 grams), 5 grams of salt, 60 grams of granulated sugar, one chicken egg, after which the dough is mixed for 7 minutes with the addition of 1 5 cups of milk. After this time, you need to add 60 grams of margarine, which can be replaced with 3 tablespoons of refined vegetable oil, and continue the process for another 10 minutes. Ready dough should be left for the approach for about a couple of hours (it should increase in volume by 2-3 times). After this, the dough needs to be kneaded and left again until it increases in volume.
Once the dough is finally ready, you can start working with it. It rolls out on the table, with the help of molds figures are cut out. At this time, you can put a frying pan with vegetable oil to bask. In order to get tasty and tender crumpets in milk, a lot of butter should be in the pan.
Finished figures are laid out in hot oil and fried on both sides until ready. At the end of frying, the crumpets are blotted with a napkin to eliminate excess fat and sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Dumplings in milk with cherry filling
To prepare this type of crumpets, classic yeast dough is also used, the preparation technology of which is described above.
For the filling, you can use both frozen and fresh berries. In order for them to start juice, they need to add granulated sugar (based on 0.5 kg of cherry - 300 g of sugar). In order for the filling to not leak during the formation of the crumpets, it must be thickened. To do this, you can use 40 grams of starch (but you need to add it only after the final dissolution of sugar).
The pan with cherries must be placed on the stove over medium heat and cook slightly until it acquires the consistency of jelly.
After cooling, the filling should proceed to the formation of cakes. To do this, roll small layers of dough and start them, then fry on both sides in a large amount of hot vegetable oil.
Thus, delicious milk crumpets are obtained, fried with cherry filling.
English donuts
To prepare this original type of donut, dilute a couple of tablespoons of yeast in 3/4 cup (150 ml) of warm milk, then add one egg and 60 grams of melted butter there. There is added 1.5 tsp. salt, 40 grams of sugar with five incomplete glasses of wheat flour. Of all the ingredients, you need to knead the elastic dough, which will not stick to the edges of the dishes. It is necessary to leave it until it is 2 times larger.
From the finished dough you need to form round layers and put them on a pan sprinkled with semolina, and wait until it rises. After that, the fire turns on, and the cakes are baked.
The English version of the preparation differs from the classical one in that as a result, dumplings in milk are obtained, fried in a pan without oil.
Dumplings on brine
Donuts with milk have tried everything, but if you cook them on brine - it will be very unusual.
They will need half a glass of any brine, half a teaspoon of salt, half a glass of sugar, 1 tablespoon of refined sunflower oil and one egg are added to it. These ingredients must be mixed thoroughly. Separately, 1.5 cups of sifted flour is mixed with 1 tbsp. l baking powder. After that, all the ingredients are combined together and the dough is kneaded from them. After that, it must be left to approach for 10-15 minutes.
Finished dough is rolled into thin rectangular layers that need to be sprinkled with poppy seeds. Further, the layers are cut into strips, which are individually twisted into spirals. Then they need to be laid on a sheet pre-coated with oiled parchment and baked in a hot oven until a crust forms (about 25 minutes) at a temperature of 170 degrees.
As you can see, dumplings on brine are not prepared in the same way as dumplings on milk, but they are no less tasty. Such an original recipe is definitely worth a try.