Siberian dumplings - a fairly popular dish. It is cooked both at home and in restaurants. Hostesses and cooks invented simple and complex recipes for this dish. Light options are ideal for everyday use, for those cases when you need to quickly cook dumplings. More complicated recipes are created for the festive table. Dumplings with a beautiful appearance and original taste, it is easy to surprise guests.
Basic Recipe
Cooking dumplings begins with kneading the dough. The simplest recipe includes just 4 ingredients. So, to prepare the dough, take:
- sifted flour - 700 g;
- egg;
- water - 1 cup;
- a small amount of salt (approximately 1 tsp).
Pour flour, salt into a deep bowl. Break the egg there. It is best to add warm water. Boiling water is not needed. Water should be slightly warm. After adding the last ingredient, start kneading the dough. It should turn out homogeneous, dense. Prepare the kitchen board. Sprinkle a little flour on it and lay out the dough to make it easier to knead. When the dough for Siberian dumplings is ready, set it aside for 20 minutes.
Complex dumplings dough
People also invented such a dough, which is prepared on the basis of wheat and buckwheat flour. From it the most useful dumplings are obtained. Although the dough is called difficult, in fact there is nothing impossible in its preparation. You will need:
- buckwheat and wheat flour - half a kilo each;
- cold water - 1 cup;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- salt - 1 tsp. with a slide.
Combine 2 types of flour and sift through a sieve into a deep bowl. Then do the same as when preparing a simple dough. When the complex dumplings dough is ready, you can not leave it on the desktop for several minutes. Proceed immediately to cutting the dough into small dumplings.
The first recipe for dumplings
Existing variants of Siberian dumplings are distinguished by the filling, because it is the main component of the dish. If you want to cook the simplest dumplings, take three pieces of meat - lamb, fatty pork, beef. The first two pieces of meat should be about 100 grams each by weight. Take a little more beef - about 200 g. Pass all the meat through a meat grinder. Next, cut the onion into small pieces and scroll them. You got minced meat with onions. Stir it with a spoon to make it homogeneous.
Stuffing, as a rule, for the preparation of Siberian dumplings comes out a little dryish. It will not be very convenient for you to spread it. To get a suitable consistency, add half a glass of cold water or a little less to the minced meat. Salt the resulting mass and pepper to your liking.
The second recipe for dumplings
You can get the filling more delicious if you change the amount of meat in its composition and use milk instead of water for breeding the minced meat. To get started, take 900 g of meat - lamb, fatty pork and beef in a ratio of 1: 2: 3. Pass the meat pieces through a meat grinder. Be sure to scroll and 2 onions, because this ingredient gives the minced meat juiciness.
The filling is almost ready. Add salt and black pepper to taste to taste. Pour in 150 ml of milk. It is desirable that it be boiled, but not hot. After mixing the ingredients, start sculpting the dumplings.
Cooking nuances
It will be useful for hostesses who decide to please their family or guests with Siberian homemade dumplings to learn about some secrets and features of cooking this dish:
- Always roll out the dough in a thin layer. When cooking, it always increases slightly in volume. If you make the dough too thick, then it will turn out to be undigested.
- You can make cakes in different ways. Form a thin sausage from the dough. Cut it into pieces. Roll out each piece. You will get cakes. They will be slightly uneven, different in size. To get beautiful dumplings, roll out the dough in a thin layer, and then using a glass, cut it out.
- Before cooking, always keep the dumplings in the cold. Pre-cooling positively affects the taste of the finished product.
Cooking dumplings is very easy. Just put a pot of salted water on the stove. After boiling, cook for 6 to 10 minutes. Cooking time depends on the thickness of the dough, the amount of filling. Before removing the pan from the heat, be sure to try one dumpling. Suddenly, he will still be a little damp. When the dumplings are cooked, you can immediately serve them on the table. Sprinkle with herbs if desired. For a more original version, use the following recipes for dumplings sauces and dishes.
Dumplings sauces
Sauce is a dressing that can dramatically change the taste of a dish. It is capable of making ordinary dumplings quite original, both in taste and in appearance. The dish with the sauce looks more appetizing. One would like to taste cooked Siberian dumplings.
There are many sauces recipes. Mistresses have plenty to choose from:
- Mayonnaise sauce. To obtain it, mix mayonnaise and sour cream in equal amounts. Additionally, add chopped greens, finely chopped pickled cucumber and grated cheese to this mixture.
- Sour cream sauce. In equal amounts, mix sour cream with tomato sauce. Both ketchup and tomato paste will do. Try the mixture to taste. If it is not sharp enough, then sprinkle a little pepper. Add chopped dill.
- Sour cream sauce. Cook the carrots and grind it. Chop the garlic finely. Mix it with carrots and sour cream. Serve the ingredients to your liking.
A rather unusual sauce for dumplings is lingonberry. He is an amateur. If you want to make such an original dressing, take a glass of sour cream, half a glass of fresh lingonberry, ½ teaspoon of grated horseradish root. From seasonings you will need red and black ground pepper, granulated sugar, salt. To prepare the sauce, rinse the berry, chop it in a blender and mix with the rest of the ingredients. Refrigerate.
Cooking in the oven with mushrooms and cheese.
In the oven you can bake Siberian dumplings with mushrooms and cheese. To prepare the dish, prepare:
- boiled dumplings - a pound;
- bulbs - 2 pieces;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- fresh champignons - 300 g;
- greens (parsley or dill is suitable), salt, red and black ground pepper - to taste;
- a small amount of sunflower oil and sour cream.
First cook the mushrooms. Cut them into small pieces and chop the onion into strips. Fry it all in sunflower oil. Put sour cream, salt and pepper in a pan. Simmer for about 3 minutes and remove from heat. When the mushrooms have cooled, add the grated cheese to them and mix.
Prepare a baking dish. Put boiled dumplings in it. Pour the mushroom mixture on top of them. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Place a baking sheet in it. Bake dumplings for 10-15 minutes. Divide the finished dish into portions. Earlier, you may have noticed that the recipe for homemade Siberian dumplings includes greens. Use it to decorate dishes before serving.
Pot dumplings
To prepare this dish you will need a pound of boiled dumplings. The list of other essential ingredients includes:
- 10% cream - 2 glasses;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- a small amount of sunflower oil;
- salt and black pepper to taste.
Fry boiled dumplings in a pan with sunflower oil until golden brown. Heat the cream a little on the stove. Add salt and ground black pepper to them. For the last stage of cooking you will need pots. Put the fried dumplings in them, pour the cream. Grate the cheese on a fine grater and pour it into the pots. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees. Put the pots in there. After about 5-7 minutes, you can serve the dish prepared according to this recipe. The photo of Siberian dumplings shows that they turn out delicious.
Dumplings with stewed vegetables
To cook the stew you will need the following vegetables and seasonings:
- eggplant - 1 fruit;
- bell pepper - 1 fruit;
- tomatoes - 2 pieces;
- onion - 1 piece;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- soy sauce - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- a small amount of sunflower oil;
- black and red ground pepper, salt to taste.
The recipe for Siberian dumplings with stewed vegetables is simple. Cut eggplant, pepper, tomatoes into small pieces. Chop the onions in half rings, and pass the garlic cloves through the garlic press. Place the pan on the stove and pour with sunflower oil. Fry the onion first in a couple of minutes. Then add the eggplant and sauté for another 5 minutes. Add tomatoes and bell peppers. Cook for about 3 minutes. At the very end, add garlic, soy sauce. After 2 minutes, remove the pan from the heat.
Take a pound of dumplings for the indicated amount of vegetables. Boil them, but not until fully cooked. It will be enough 2 minutes, because then dumplings you will still be stewed with vegetables. Put the boiled dumplings in a pan to vegetables. Pour half a cup of broth into the dish. You should have left it from cooking dumplings. Add salt and pepper. Put the pan back on fire. Simmer over low heat until tender.
Fried dumplings with champignons and bell pepper
Prepare this dish with Siberian dumplings according to a step-by-step recipe with a photo. You will need:
- prepared dumplings - half a kilo;
- champignons - 300 g;
- bell pepper - 1 fruit;
- onion - 1 piece;
- some vegetable oil;
- sour cream - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- salt, red and black ground pepper - to taste.
Fry boiled dumplings in a frying pan in vegetable oil until golden brown. Chop mushrooms, bell pepper and onion. Sauté these ingredients in another pan. After frying, transfer them to a pan to dumplings and pour water (somewhere ¼ cup). Add sour cream and spices to taste. Stew the dish until cooked.
Siberian dumplings in stores
What only semi-finished products are not on the shelves of modern supermarkets! There are pasties, and manti, and pancakes. But the most popular semi-finished products that are in stores in a wide assortment are dumplings. They are produced by manufacturers in different versions. Among them you can find Siberian dumplings.
One of the manufacturers is “Products from Ilyina”. This company produces Siberian fish dumplings. Reviews about them are quite contradictory. Someone likes the taste of dumplings. And their price is low. Negative reviews of Siberian dumplings write about disappointment. Some people do not like the filling, which seems tasteless. It is minced fish mixed with pepper.
Expensive meat dumplings, called Siberian, are produced by such manufacturers as Halal Meat Yard and Siberian Collection. The products of these companies suit a huge number of people to their taste. The disadvantages include a high price. There are also people who criticize the taste and composition.
Siberian dumplings - this is the dish that you should cook yourself. It does not compare with cheap store options. Inexpensive dumplings have a slightly different taste, which does not cause admiration. Expensive options are as close as possible to homemade dumplings in composition and taste. Moreover, their prices are disadvantageous for buyers. For the same amount you can stick a lot more dumplings at home. At the same time, you do not have to doubt the quality of your own cooked dish. You will be sure of the freshness of all products, the absence of harmful additives.