Ingredients:

• Kefir - 1/2 liter
• Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
• Sugar - 4 tablespoons
• – 5 glasses
• Dry yeast - 2 tsp
• Salt - 1/2 tsp

• – 1/2 kg
• Sugar - to taste.

I will say right away, here you have to tinker. Vareniki according to this recipe are juicy and delicious stuffing. But there is another recipe for lazy dumplings, which will save a lot of cooking time.

Recipe for dumplings with cottage cheese in a double boiler

1. Dissolve sugar and salt in warm kefir. Crack in the eggs and beat a little with a whisk. Add flour with yeast in small portions and knead the dough. The dough should be soft.

2. Cover the dough with a cloth and leave to rise in a warm place.
We are preparing the stuffing. Mix cottage cheese with sugar. If the cottage cheese is dry, then you can add a little sour cream or egg yolk.

3. Sprinkle the table with flour. We take a piece of dough and roll it into a layer about 0.5 cm thick. Cut out circles in the dough with a glass.

4. We put the filling in each circle. We pinch the edges and form dumplings. Cover the dumplings with a clean cloth and let them rise a little.

5. Cooking steamed dumplings in a double boiler or slow cooker. Estimated cooking time is approximately 10 minutes. Lush and delicious dumplings with cottage cheese ready. Enjoy your meal!

Calories: Not specified
Time for preparing: Not specified

Many people love dumplings with cottage cheese - both adults and children. But for some reason, not all housewives decide to cook them. Some are worried that the dough will not turn out, some are afraid to digest ... But I am not afraid of either one or the other - I have a very good recipe how to cook dumplings with cottage cheese in a slow cooker for a couple. And with the cooking process, my indispensable assistant, the slow cooker, always helps me. It can cook a variety of delicious food, for example or . And cooking dumplings with cottage cheese in it is just a pleasure! Do you want me to tell you the details?

Ingredients:

For test:
- 1 glass of kefir (any fat content);
- 1 teaspoon of soda (without top);
- a pinch of salt;
- 0.5 -1.5 teaspoons of sugar (who likes what kind of dough);
- about 3 cups of flour.

For filling:
- 400-450 g of fresh dry cottage cheese;
- salt and sugar - to taste.

How to cook with a photo step by step

First we prepare the dough. We sift the flour.

Pour kefir at room temperature into the mixer bowl. We put salt, sugar and soda.
Add 1 cup flour. Mix with a mixer.

Gradually add 1 more cup of flour, constantly working with a mixer.

After the 2nd glass of flour, we change the mixer nozzles to spiral ones. The third glass is filled up quite a bit, carefully kneading. You can finish kneading by hand so you can feel the dough. It should be soft, elastic and fluffy, not tight.

We spread the finished dough on a surface dusted with flour, and set aside for 10-15 minutes.

It's time to start filling the dumplings. Curd must be fresh.

Knead the cottage cheese with a blender into a paste (or rub through a sieve). Add salt and sugar. Our stuffing is ready.

We divide the dough into approximately equal pieces weighing about 30 g - from this amount we get 18-20 dumplings.

Sprinkle the surface of the desktop (I make dumplings on a silicone mat) with a little flour. Try not to add extra flour - just so that you can roll it out. We roll each piece into a rounded cake 3-4 mm thick, about 6-8 cm in diameter. We also lay out the cakes on a lightly floured surface.




Then spread the filling on half of the cake (about 1 dessert spoon), not reaching the edge.

We cover the filling with the second half of the dough and connect the edges. First, just connect - fasten. And then we form the edge “in the assembly”: we squeeze the connected edges without dough with the thumb and forefinger and move the fingers a little, by 5-10 mm. We move 6-8 mm - and repeat. And so on until the end of the dumpling.

As soon as 6-8 dumplings are blinded (as much is placed on the multicooker tray), you can put it on to cook. And you can finish sculpting all the dumplings, and then cook them. The main thing - do not forget to flour the surface on which you spread ready dumplings so they don't stick.

Before starting cooking, be sure to read the instructions for your multicooker - it should indicate how to steam. For my multicooker, you need to pour water into the bowl at the mark with the number 2.

Complete with your multicooker (if it has a “steam” mode, there should be a special basket-tray with holes - it is installed on top of a bowl of water. As a rule, its surface is covered non-stick coating, so it is not necessary to lubricate it with oil before cooking dumplings.

We put the dumplings on a basket with holes in such a way that they do not touch each other. We put the basket in the multicooker on a bowl of water, close the lid and turn on the unit in the "steam" mode. We cook the first portion for 6 minutes, the next - 4-5 minutes.

Put the dumplings on a plate and serve immediately while they are still warm.

Very tasty dumplings with sour cream…

…or with your favorite jam like apricot jam.
Vareniki are tender, fluffy, not sticky to each other. It is also important that the next day (after storage in the refrigerator) they remain as soft and tasty as immediately after cooking.




Tips & Tricks:
As I already wrote, the dough for dumplings should be very soft and not tight. To achieve this, it is important not to overdo it with the amount of flour. Before you start rolling out the dough. Dust your work surface with just a little flour, just enough to keep the dough from sticking. If the dough remains airy, almost fluffy, then the dumplings will turn out soft and fluffy.
Cottage cheese for dumplings should be well wrung out, almost dry. Otherwise, dumplings stuffed with wet cottage cheese will not keep their shape well. It seems to me that high-fat cottage cheese is better for dumplings, but this is a matter of taste.
If the cottage cheese is not quite fresh, then no matter how hard you try to remove the “sourness” in it, it will still be noticeable in dumplings, no matter how much sugar you put in. Therefore, try to find fresh peasant cottage cheese - and you are guaranteed to get delicious dumplings.



You determine the amount of sugar and salt for the filling yourself - in this regard, everyone has different tastes. Someone does not add sugar to cottage cheese at all, but instead serves honey, jam, preserves with dumplings ... And someone prefers dumplings with sour cream and is very sweet stuffing... I put 2 incomplete spoons of sugar and a pinch of salt on 400 g of cottage cheese, but you may like dumplings with a different amount. So be sure to try the filling to achieve the optimal taste.




That's all. Vareniki with cottage cheese in a slow cooker are ready. By the way, you can also vary the size of dumplings. Someone likes very small ones, in which there is little filling, but a lot of dough. And someone prefers just huge ones - they are not very convenient to eat, but there are plenty of fillings ... Choose for yourself, but I prefer the golden mean.
Author - Natalia Tishchenko

I used to associate steamed dumplings with difficulty. It was necessary to heat the water, tie gauze on the pan and boil the dumplings, constantly making sure that the water did not boil away and not burn the pan. This is how our grandmothers did it, but now is a completely different time. Multicooker time. The cooking process with your favorite assistant - a multicooker is quite easy, convenient and simple. Try to cook delicious lush steamed dumplings according to my recipe with step by step photos taken and see for yourself.

So we need:

for the test:

- kefir or spoiled milk- 150 milligrams;
- chicken egg - 1 piece;
- salt - 1 teaspoon;
- soda - 1 teaspoon (without a mountain);
- premium wheat flour - 300-350 grams (how much dough will take).

For filling:

- cottage cheese - 200 grams;
- egg yolk - 1 piece;
- salt - 1 teaspoon.

The basis for lush dumplings is a special one. To knead the dough you need to mix the egg, kefir, salt and soda. Pour the liquid into the sifted flour and knead an elastic dough.

Leave the dough alone for twenty minutes, and during this time make the curd filling.

How to make cottage cheese stuffing for dumplings

Starting to cook, the cottage cheese should be kneaded with a fork, add the yolk and salt.

mix well curd mass so that the yolk is evenly distributed and gives the curd mixture a pleasant pale yellow tint.

How to make dumplings with cottage cheese

To properly mold lush dumplings, you need to know some simple secrets which I am happy to share.

Roll out the dough into a layer, about seven millimeters thick. Cut out circles with special shapes or a glass.

Put the filling in the center of each circle, in a special recess created by your fingers.

Fold the circle in half, adjusting the filling inside the dumpling with your finger.

Pinch the edges, using flour and sleight of hand. 🙂 Make, for decoration, a pigtail along the edge of the dumpling.

We put the finished dumplings with cottage cheese on a clean napkin or towel.

How to steam dumplings in a slow cooker

Turn on the “Steamer” program by first pouring water to the minimum mark. Put the dumplings on a special grill for steaming. Place dumplings at such a distance from each other that they do not stick together.

In my multicooker, the Steamer program automatically turns on for 10 minutes. This time is enough to cook dumplings. When you open the lid, you will see lush appetizing dumplings.

It remains only to put them on a plate with butter and serve at home for tasting.

Inside the dumpling, the cottage cheese filling turns out juicy and very, very tasty, and thick crust perfectly complements its taste.

Be sure to take note of my step by step recipe with a photo and spoil your family with delicious lush dumplings with cottage cheese. Steam them in a slow cooker, it's very fast, simple and any dish turns out to be much tastier and healthier than with ordinary boiling in water.

The first thing that comes to mind when mentioning dishes with cottage cheese is delicious dumplings. But people who are not familiar with culinary subtleties, manage to spoil even such a simple delicacy. Surprisingly: some dumplings turn out to be tight, while others are content with the filling and dough separately. This is easy to fix if you know exactly how much to cook dumplings with cottage cheese.

Cook until done...

For some reason, many of us believe that the main thing in the preparation of semi-finished products from dough is delicious fatty cottage cheese and the base, mixed according to all the rules. Undoubtedly, these two components play an important, but not decisive role in the preparation of the dish. After all, even after reading the most detailed recipes there remains a very logical question: how much do you need to cook dumplings with cottage cheese?

In fact, the time interval is no different from cooking dumplings with potatoes or cabbage, so you can safely take these data as a basis. For those who have encountered this for the first time, we explain: dumplings with cottage cheese or other savory fillings boil for 7 to 10 minutes depending on their size.

But for a particularly busy category of the population, another problem may be brewing, because frozen shop semi-finished products cook for a different amount of time. Of course, the manufacturer often indicates the necessary time frame on the packaging and even accompanies the text with step-by-step images, but anything happens in life.

If you have purchased frozen dumplings with cottage cheese and do not know how much to cook them, but threw away the package, use the following data:

• in a saucepan, dumplings are boiled for 5 minutes after boiling;
• in a frying pan - 3 minutes;
• for a couple - 3-4 minutes;
• deep-fried - 1.5 minutes;
• in the microwave at 700V - 5 minutes.

Another option to determine the readiness of cottage cheese dumplings is to follow when they float to the surface. It is believed that as soon as this has happened, the burner can be turned off. However, this rule unquestioningly works only for lazy dumplings.

Boiling semi-finished products correctly is only half the battle, because you also need to mold blanks. If the store version does not suit you, we suggest using our recipes.

Curd delicacy: cook it right

You certainly know how to sculpt homemade dumplings. You also know that fresh or frozen fruits, vanillin or raisins can be added to cottage cheese. But human imagination will never stop at the knowledge gained. Therefore, we offer you another option - salted dumplings with tender cottage cheese and fresh herbs.

Compound:

• 1 ½ st. flour;
• 2 eggs;
• 1 st. water;
• 400 g of salted cottage cheese;
• greens.

Cooking:

We cook - soar

Don't have time to stand over the pot and watch the water boil? Try to cook lazy dumplings in a slow cooker, and you will be pleasantly surprised by the unusually delicate and mild taste of the dish. How much to cook lazy dumplings with cottage cheese in a slow cooker largely depends on the model of your machine, but on average the whole process will not take longer than 10 minutes.

Compound:

• 750 g low-fat cottage cheese;
• 2 tbsp. l. flour with a slide;
• 3 art. l. decoys;
• 2 eggs;
• 3 art. l. Sahara;
• a pinch of salt.

Cooking:

My family comes from the Poltava region, and therefore dishes from other countries appear on our table from time to time. grandmother's recipes. One of these dishes is steamed dumplings with cottage cheese. They can be both sweet and savory, it's a matter of taste. In this recipe, I suggest you cook them with a sweet filling, and you already decide for yourself.

We prepare the main ingredients.

For the filling for future dumplings, we take cottage cheese, add sour cream and sugar to taste. Mix everything well, the cottage cheese should remain dry.

In a glass of warm kefir, dissolve the yeast and sugar.

We drive in the egg, mix.

Pour in the flour in small portions and knead soft dough like regular dumplings.

The amount of flour may need a little less or more, it all depends on its quality, etc.

Cover the finished dough with a towel and leave to rise for an hour.

Place the risen dough on a floured board and knead lightly.

We cut off a part of the dough and roll it into a layer up to 0.5 cm thick. Squeeze out circles.

In each circle we put 1 tsp of cottage cheese filling.

And we make dumplings.

We set up a steam bath. To do this, pour water into one pan and put it on fire. We put a double boiler on top or cover the pan with a double layer of gauze and tie around the edges. When the water in the pan begins to boil, place dumplings on top of the double boiler.

Cook for 3-5 minutes without turning under the lid.

Our dumplings steamed with cottage cheese are ready. Enjoy your meal!