The ideal dinner for a lazy housewife is pelmeni in an oven with cheese and mayonnaise. For some of these recipes, dumplings are not even required to be defrosted. To prepare such a pelmeni casserole, you can use a homemade semi-finished product or its purchase analogue of high quality - it will be equally delicious.
Pelmeni baked in the oven with cheese
This variation of the casserole from dumplings can be conventionally called lasagna for lazy people. The composition of the dish includes cheese, tomato sauce, dough and meat stuffing dumplings, and the usual béchamel here we will replace with mayonnaise.
Ingredients:
- pelmeni - 455 g;
- tomato sauce - 375 ml;
- mayonnaise - 115 ml;
- leaves of thyme - 2 teaspoons;
- a pinch of dried parsley;
- grated cheese - 65 g.
Preparation
Dumplings quickly (about 1-2 minutes) cook in salted boiling water and remove. The chosen form for baking, cover with butter and put into it boiled dumplings. Separately, combine dried herbs with tomato sauce and mayonnaise. Pour the resulting mixture to the dumplings and mix well. Sprinkle the top of the casserole with cheese and leave the mold in the oven for half an hour at 175 degrees. If you want to get a ruddy crust on the surface, then remove the foil and leave the cheese to brown.
Dumplings in oven with mayonnaise under cheese
If you do not have enough meat in the purchased dumplings (and who has enough?), Then add minced meat to the sauce. So the dish will be much more interesting, and most importantly - more nutritious.
Ingredients:
- ground beef - 265 g;
- a mixture of Italian herbs - 1/2 tsp;
- onion - 55 g;
- garlic teeth - 3 pieces;
- tomato sauce - 375 ml;
- mayonnaise - 240 ml;
- sour cream - 115 ml;
- grated Parmesan - 45 g;
- pelmeni - 590 g;
- grated mozzarella - 95 g.
Preparation
Rinse the onions with chopped garlic cloves. To the resulting roast, add ground beef and dried herbs, generously season with salt. When the mince becomes golden, pour tomato sauce, mayonnaise and sour cream to it. Warm the mixture of sauces and remove from heat. Quickly cook the dumplings in salted boiling water to defrost them, and then mix with the sauce in the baking dish and cover with a pillow of cheese mixture. Cook the dumplings in the oven in a sauce with cheese for 15 minutes at 170 degrees.
Dumplings in a pot with cheese and mayonnaise
The recipe for such ravioli in pots will seem to many a bit extravagant due to the availability of milk at the base. If you are not ready for such experiments, you can replace the milk with broth, but we assure you, the classic recipe is worth trying to implement it.
Ingredients:
- pelmeni - 980 g;
- hard cheese - 175 g;
- milk - 820 ml;
- butter - 35 g;
- mayonnaise - 140 g;
- garlic teeth - 3 pcs.
Preparation
Spread the pots of dumplings straight from the freezer. Pour the contents of the pots with cold milk, put a piece of butter and chopped garlic cloves. Top cover the dish with a handful of grated cheese and a pair of spoons of mayonnaise. Bake dumplings at 215 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
Baked dumplings with cheese and mayonnaise
Ingredients:
- fresh spinach - 145 g;
- mayonnaise - 230 g;
- cream cheese - 165 g;
- sour cream - 110 g;
- vegetable broth - 55 ml;
- pelmeni - 720 g;
- grated cheese - 1 tbsp.
Preparation
Before you cook the dumplings in the oven with cheese, make a simple sauce by beating the cream cheese with mayonnaise, broth and sour cream. Pour a third of the sauce into a mold and distribute a portion of the spinach. Top with frozen pelmeni, and with them again a layer of spinach and a sauce. Sprinkle the casserole with cheese, cover with foil and serve in the oven for half an hour at 175 degrees. For a couple of minutes until ready, remove the foil to make the cheese brown.