Easy to prepare recipes for vareniki.

Traditional Ukrainian dish - vareniki, has a centuries-old history, they are associated with many beliefs, legends, magic rituals. The Ukrainian people from ancient times attributed magical properties to vareniki, it was believed that this dish will bring wellness, health, strength, protect from evil spirits and give birth to a continuation. Today, vareniki - it's just a hearty and delicious dish, a favorite among adults and children. And it is so popular with different audiences that different recipes of vareniki suggest different fillings. Vareniki can be sweet: with cottage cheese, cherries, cherries, strawberries, raspberries, plums, strawberries, apples, jam, poppy. And you can also pick potatoes, stewed cabbage, liver, mushrooms, beans, cheese (brynza), liver with bacon and the like.

Recipes of vareniki are basically all the same and differ only in fillings, except for lazy vareniki. The process of their preparation is slightly different from the classical one. Therefore I want to offer your attention the classic recipes of vareniki with cottage cheese and lazy vareniki with potatoes.

Vareniki with cottage cheese.

Still wondering how to cook dumplings with cottage cheese? After reading this recipe, the answers will be found by themselves. And the received result with pleasure will be appreciated by all members of the family.

For the test, you need: flour (2.5 cups), eggs (3 pcs.), Water (0.5-1 glass), a little sugar (a tablespoon), a pinch of salt.

Filling: cottage cheese (600-700 gr.), Sugar (to taste), vanillin. If desired, you can add a handful of raisins.

Preparation. Virtually all recipes of vareniki suggest kneading the dough as follows. A large bowl (for convenience) is sieved through a sieve flour, a flour is made in the flour, into which eggs are hammered, a little sugar and salt rushes. A cold (very important) water flows in. The dough is mixed. It should be homogeneous and not too steep, but not liquid.

Preparing the filling. Razirayem in a bowl of cottage cheese with sugar. Add to it a little vanillin. Before putting the raisins, pour it with boiling water and let stand for a few minutes, rinse thoroughly. All mix. The filling for the future vareniki is ready.

We take the dough. We pick off a small piece and roll it into a layer of medium thickness, not more than 0.5 cm. We squeeze out the circles with a glass, put the cottage cheese on the middle and tuck the edges. Forming a dumpling in the form of a crescent.

You can also choose another way to form the dumpling circles. Take a little dough and roll it with sausage. Cut into small pieces, each bit slightly to crush and sprinkle a little with flour. Roll out the rolling pin to the required thickness. Cottage cheese is to be cooked in the received preparations.

In boiling slightly salted water we throw our varenichki, after they rise from the bottom, boil 3-5 minutes. Choose a plate and throw a little butter. It will not allow the finished products to stick together. Sour cream will be an excellent addition to the ready-made dumplings with cottage cheese.

Lazy dumplings with potatoes.

We need: potatoes (6-7 pieces), one egg, flour (1.5 cups), greens (dill, parsley), sour cream (to taste), ground pepper, salt.

Preparation. We peel the potatoes from the peel, carefully rinse, cut and cook in salted water until cooked. Ready potatoes mash to mash, manually or in a blender, let's cool a bit. The resulting puree pepper and enter the egg, mix well the resulting mass. By adding a little flour and kneading the dough.

The resulting dough is rolled up by a bundle, we cut it into small parts, it can be even, but it can be slightly oblique. Each piece of lightly crumble in flour. We throw the pieces of dough into the boiling salted water, cook for 6-7 minutes. Ready lazy vareniki with potatoes served sprinkled with herbs and sour cream.

By the same principle, you can prepare lazy vareniki with cottage cheese or classic vareniki with any filling. To do this, we take the above-described recipes for vareniki and replace cottage cheese and potatoes with any other fillings.