Blessed berry season ... Summer, summer cottage, strawberry from a bush ... There is no way to do without dumplings, especially since it is very easy to cook them in any, even in the most spartan conditions of village life, and the necessary products will always be found if, as in " kolobok ", as it should be scraped along the bays.
How to cook dumplings with kefir?
Ingredients:
- kefir - 2/3 items;
- egg - 1 piece;
- flour - 2 items;
- Strawberry - 300 g;
- sugar - to taste.
Preparation
We sift the flour into a bowl, make a groove. We drive in the egg, add kefir. We knead first with a spoon, and then with hands, a soft dough. We give him 15-15 minutes to lie down under a towel. After the dough is rolled into a thin layer and a cup of suitable size cut out the circles. From such a test, you can prepare dishes with a variety of fillings: vareniki cabbage , potatoes, cherries, but for this recipe in the middle of each circle we put a strawberry and sprinkled a little sugar. We form vareniki, carefully covering the edges, we throw them into boiling water. To prevent vareniki from sticking to the bottom and walls, stir constantly. After they come up, wait a couple more minutes. All, we catch and enjoy this truly summer dessert.
And if you grieve over the sweet berry in winter, then such vareniki can be prepared with frozen strawberries. We do everything just as well, only the berries must be dipped into starch so that it absorbs the secret juice. Or we can defrost the strawberries, drain the juice (from it you can weld the syrup), and only then we make dumplings.
Lazy vareniki with strawberries
Ingredients:
- Strawberry - 6 items;
- sugar - half a century;
- flour - 1 item;
- Butter - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
- milk - 2/3 of the item;
- salt - 1 pinch.
Preparation
Strawberry mine, remove the tails and cut into quarters. We fall asleep with sugar and wait for 15 minutes, until the berries are let out juice - all this can be done in the evening and leave the workpiece for the night in the refrigerator, then the preparation of the dessert for breakfast will take just minutes.
We sift the flour, mix it with salt and baking powder, cut a cold butter there with a knife and rub it into crumbs, add milk and mix the dough. The consistency of the finished dough should resemble thick sour cream.
Let the juice of strawberries pass to the saucepan and be sent to the fire, as soon as it boils, we spread the dough from the top, cover it and put it on a small fire for 15-20 minutes.
Serve deliciously delicate lazy vareniki with strawberries with cream or sour cream. You can go to the table, or you can go to bed.
Vareniki with cottage cheese and strawberries
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 100 g;
- egg - 1 piece;
- flour - 200 g;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- butter - 10 g;
- vanillin - 1 pinch;
- soda - 1/2 teaspoon;
- Strawberry - 100 g;
- powdered sugar - for decoration.
Preparation
Curd weed with sugar and egg, add vanillin and soda, gradually add flour and knead the dough. We skate from the ready-made dough sausage, divide the knife into equal parts. From each piece we form a pancake, in the middle of which we put a strawberry. Sprinkle with sugar and zalyplyaem varenik or just roll kolobok.
We will cook lazy vareniki with cottage cheese and strawberries in a double boiler. So that they do not stick together, dumplings should not touch each other, and the grill of the steamer should be pre-lubricated with butter. Literally in about 10 minutes we call everyone to the table.
In the absence of a steamer, you can use old grandfather methods.
Option one
Warm up half of the pot with water, as soon as it boils, from above we install a lightly oiled colander (it is important that it does not come in contact with water) and spread dumplings into it. Cover with a lid and cook for 5-7 minutes.
Option Two
Instead of a stew pan, we tie the top with a double layer of gauze, lay out vareniki on it and cover it with a bowl turned upside down.