Appearance of dishes plays no less important role than taste, which is why many housewives with such trepidation refer to the design of their culinary creations. Pelmeni are no exception, and even more than that, they become a real expanse for creative thought due to their plasticity. On how to mold pelmeni with a variety of techniques we will tell you further.
How to make pelmeni with your hands?
Let's start with the classic method of modeling dumplings, very simple and known to everyone. Before starting modeling, the dough itself is rolled into a bundle and cut into small patches. Each of them then thinly roll. This technique will save your time due to its wastelessness: you do not have to collect all the scraps, re-grind and roll them.
Put a portion of the filling in the center of the rolled out layer and remove the excess flour from the edges.
Blind the edges together to get a crescent moon.
Then connect both edges of this crescent in the center.
How to make ravioli in a pelmeni?
If you want to save a lot of time and get a neat dumplings at the exit, then get a dumplings.
Thinly roll out the dough and lay it over the dumplings. In the cells, put the filling and cover everything with the second layer of the dough.
Roll out everything, tightly pressing the rolling pin to the surface.
Carefully remove the dumplings adhering to the mold with a light touch of a finger.
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How to quickly mold dumplings?
If you do not like the shape that the standard pelmeni gives to pelmeni, then buy a device that allows you to mold each of the dumplings individually.
Roll the dough into a thin layer and cut it into circles. Put the dough with the filling in the center of the open dumplings.
Close the sashes tightly, holding the edges together.
The disadvantage of this device may be that the dough will stick to the outside of the pelmet flaps, and therefore one of the sides of the flat cake is better left with slightly sprinkled flour, and the second is completely cleaned from it so that the edges are better connected together.
How beautiful to sculpt ravioli?
Another simple way to mold the dough also excludes any unnecessary expense and reduces manipulation to a minimum. Cut the dough into small portions, thinly roll each of them and place the filling in the center.
Collect the three sides of the dough together and connect them in the center so that a triangle emerges. By analogy, you can give pelmeni the shape of a square, collecting not three dough corners, but four.
How to mold a dumplings pigtail?
This method of modeling has long been used for Asian dumplings and manti. For him, pieces of dough are also rolled into a circle, then the filling is covered with one of the free edges.
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Next, moving from the base, tear the dough on both sides and fasten it together in the center.
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Going to the end, just blinding both free edges with each other.
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How to sculpt Chinese dumplings?
The following modeling technique is often used for the Chinese version of the pelmeni called gedza. This technique can be borrowed and with regard to our dumplings, just make sure that they kneaded a sufficiently steep dough that is able to keep the shape well.
Cut the circles of equal diameter from a thin layer of dough, grease the edges of each of them with a minimum amount of water. Do not be too zealous with the liquid, otherwise you will get the opposite effect - the dough will not stick together and will begin to decay.
Now, starting to move along one of the edges, make the equal size protectors. Continue to overlap them until you blind half of the dumplings in this way.
The second, smooth half, gently blend with the folded edge.
