Vareniki is a very tasty and satisfying dish of Ukrainian cuisine. How to cook lean dumplings, read below
Lenten dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms - recipe
Ingredients:
For the test:
- flour of higher quality wheat - 290 g;
- salt;
- refined oil - 40 ml;
- water 190 ml.
For filling:
- Dried mushrooms - 30 g;
- onion - 130 g;
- potatoes - 500 g;
- salt;
- pepper.
Preparation
Sift the flour, add salt, pour in the oil and water and knead the dough. When it becomes steep enough, we put it on the table and with your hands for about 5 minutes, periodically spraying the table with flour. Then cover it and let it rest for about 40 minutes. Dry mushrooms soak in boiling water for half an hour. Then they wash mine and pour filtered mushroom infusion. After boiling, cook for about half an hour. Then we remove them with a noise. Boil the peeled potatoes, salt and mash in puree. Grind the onion, fry it until rouge, add the sliced mushrooms, salt, pepper and cook for 3 minutes. The resulting mushroom roast is added in the mashed potatoes and mixed. Roll out the dough with a thin layer, cut out the circles (it's convenient to make it with a glass), put stuffing on each one and fasten the edges. Cook boiled dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms for about 5 minutes after surfacing to the surface.
Dumplings with cherries
Ingredients:
For the test:
- flour of higher quality wheat - 300 g;
- boiling water - 250 ml;
- soda - 1/3 of a spoon;
- salt - 0,5 tsp.
- oil - 50 ml.
For filling:
- cherry with bones - 400 g;
- sugar.
Preparation
In the sifted flour, pour in the vegetable oil, put the slaked soda, salt, pour boiling water and mix the soft dough. We rub the table with flour, roll the tourniquet out of the dough, cut it into pieces, turn it into cakes with our hands. In the center we put a few cherries and sprinkle them with sugar. Gently tidy the edges. Dumplings with cherries can be simply boiled in a pot of boiling water for 5 minutes after surfacing them to the surface, or even better to cook them for a couple. If there is no special steamer, it does not matter. It is enough to tie a pan of gauze, lay out on it our dumplings and cook over boiling water for about 15 minutes. Then we spread them on a dish and prisutshivaem sugar.
Lenten Vareniki with Pumpkin
Ingredients:
For the test:
- rye flour - 400 g;
- olive oil - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- pumpkin - 300 g;
- water 100 ml;
- onion - 100 g;
- salt;
- black pepper;
- nutmeg.
For sauce:
- onions - 230 g;
- pumpkin - 130 g;
- orange juice - 50 ml;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- sand sugar - 10 g;
- tomatoes - 1 pc .;
- salt;
- greenery.
Preparation
In the flour put the salt, pour in the oil and gradually pour in the water, kneading the dough to an elastic state. For the filling, pumpkin and onions are crushed with a meat grinder, add salt, spices and stir well. Thinly roll out the dough, cut out the circles with a glass, put about half a teaspoon of filling in the center and fasten the edges. Cook vareniki for a couple of 15 minutes. For the sauce, chop the onion small and shred and ruddy. Pumpkin melenko cut and sent to a frying pan and toasty onion. Then add crushed garlic, grated tomato and stew for about 3 minutes. Then add
You can also cook lenten vareniki with cabbage. For this, we take as a basis any of the above-mentioned recipes for preparing the dough. And for the filling, we chop the onions and carrots, fry them until red, add a thinly chopped cabbage and stew until ready. Practically at the end add tomato paste, mixed in water, salt, sugar, sugar and pepper to taste and stir. When the resulting filling is a little cool, put it in the middle of the pieces of dough and we make dumplings. Cooking them, like others can be done simply in a saucepan, but it is preferable, of course, to use a steamer.