Lazy dumplings are so called because they cook much faster than ordinary ones. There is no need to knead the dough, roll out the layers, and then sculpt the food itself for hours. Everything is much simpler. Dumplings, namely the so-called “sloths” in culinary literature, are made from cottage cheese, potatoes and are equally tasty. We discuss the first option.
Cooking technology
For those who are interested in how to cook lazy dumplings from cottage cheese, we immediately note: they can be made sweet and salty, with herbs, spicy and even with pieces of fruit. Cottage cheese should be homogeneous, without graininess. To do this, grind it through a sieve or pass through a meat grinder several times. As spices and seasonings, put cinnamon in mincemeat, vanillin for sweet, and crushed garlic, bitter pepper, caraway seeds, coriander for hot. Another clarification on how to cook lazy dumplings from cottage cheese - they are boiled in boiling water and served with sour cream or ghee, honey or jam. Or bake in the oven until golden brown.
Sweet Dumplings
We make sloths with sugar and vanilla. For a serving, take: cottage cheese - 500 g, sour cream - half a glass, eggs - 2 pieces, sugar - 3 tbsp. tablespoons, the same amount of butter, flour - 1 cup, crushed crackers - 2 tbsp. spoons. And some salt. Now we will describe the process itself of how to cook lazy dumplings
from cottage cheese. Prepare the curd mass , as explained above. Drive eggs into it, add sugar, salt, a spoonful of melted butter. Stir thoroughly, and then pour in flour and knead a homogeneous dough. It should be cool enough to hold all the ingredients well. The test mass should be divided into equal parts, from each roll up "sausages" with a diameter of 5-6 cm, cut them into pieces. Each flatten a little like a flat cake or roll into a ball. Here's how to make lazy cottage cheese dumplings easy and simple.
Throw the workpieces into a pot of boiling water, pre-salt it, and when they come up, pull out a slotted spoon or using a colander. Look at what delicious lazy dumplings with cottage cheese turn out (photos are attached in the article). Put food on a dish or on plates, pour dumplings with ghee. Sprinkle with crushed crackers, better than butter, sweet. And put on the table with sour cream or another dressing that you like. Cooking lazy dumplings from cottage cheese, or rather, bringing them to "condition", may be a little different. Fold the boiled dumplings in a pan, pour sour cream on them, sprinkle oil on top and put in a hot oven, let them brown.
Sloths are salty
Salty lazy dumplings are prepared in about the same way as ordinary. Only some of the cottage cheese is replaced with feta cheese (or the cottage cheese itself is salted), and instead of sugar, pepper, seasonings and spices are put to taste, finely chopped parsley or dill, crushed garlic are mixed. Further, everything is repeated, as in the previous recipe. Having boiled such dumplings, they should be fried in a pan with sunflower oil and served on the table with sour cream or mayonnaise, vegetable salad.
Fruit dumplings
You will get another great dish if you make sweet vanilla lazy dumplings with pieces of fruit. Just mix them into the dough. Instead of fruit, you can take pre-soaked raisins.
Bon appetite!