Cooking dumplings with potatoes

Vareniki - a dish very popular, and it's not surprising. After all, it is very tasty, hearty, cheap and, in addition, you can prepare vareniki with a 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'll fetch two eggs with a 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 dumpling dough should be put under a bowl or in a plastic 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 will use the following recipe. Take a glass of kefir, add to it half a spoonful of soda and a pinch of salt and mix. Then we begin to pour the flour into this mixture, mixing it well. 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 lenten vareniki with potatoes from the custard. 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 onions. To do this, fry the onions in oil, and then fill them with mashed potatoes.

You can cook vareniki with potatoes with various additives. For example, in the filling can be added boiled and finely chopped mushrooms or boiled 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 do not necessarily 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 and bacon. In this case, potatoes, onions and lard need to be passed through a meat grinder. If lard is used salted, then it is not necessary to add salt to the filling. The proportions of the products can vary according to your taste, 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 make vareniki. To do this, roll out a thin flat cake, cut it into a glass of billet. Then we take one circle, put a spoonful of stuffing in its center and connect the edges.

Boil vareniki in large quantities of salted 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.