There are dishes that are timed to specificseason. Gourmets who prefer vareniki with cherries do not always wait for these fruits. They are ready to compromise and accept the filling with cherries or use frozen berries to bring the taste of summer closer.
Vareniki - a dish of Slavic cuisine, whichIt is very popular in the post-Soviet space, especially in Ukraine. The admirers of this dish are not limited to cherry filling, everyone has their own preferences. In the honor vareniki with cherries and other berries, as well as with meat, cottage cheese, vegetables. You can prepare a dish for every taste. Also dumplings with cherries can be prepared on a fresh test with the addition of yeast or kefir. All options are equally good, but the choice is made by the hostess, based on her culinary skills and preferences of household members.
To make a dough for vareniki with cherries,the following components will be required: wheat flour - 250-300 grams, kefir (milk whey) - 150-200 grams, water - 100 grams, 5 grams of salt, eggs - 2 pieces, 5 grams of baking soda, 50 grams of sugar.
Eggs need to be beaten with salt mixer in foam,mixed with cooled boiled water and kefir. In a bowl, sift the flour through a fine-mesh sieve to loosen the product. Now a thin trickle gradually pour the liquid part into the flour with sugar and soda (without vinegar), whilst mixing everything with a mixer with a special nozzle to a homogeneous mass. The dough should become steep enough, so we further interfere with our hands. The finished mass is allowed to stand for 15 minutes at a temperature of 20-25 ° C for better swelling of the gluten, so that it becomes more plastic.
To dumplings with cherries turned out delicious andsucculent, you need to properly prepare the berries for the filling. We wash the cherry under the water and pour it on the towel to get wet the remains of moisture. With the help of tools or by hand, cutting one edge, we remove the stone from the fetus. Spread the cherries on a plate and let stand 10 minutes to juice the stack with berries. If you cook not in the season of fresh berries and use frozen cherries, then it is necessary for 7-9 hours to get them from the freezer and put the thaw in the refrigerator at a temperature of no higher than 3-5 ° C, so that the loss of moisture was minimal.
The dough is rolled on a table about 3 mm thickwith a rolling pin. Vareniki with cherries can be made in any shape, so choose yourself. Traditionally they are plastered in the form of a month, but can be in the form of folded triangles or squares. Therefore, based on our own preferences, we cut out the blanks. If dumplings with cherries are in the form of a month, then make circles; if triangular shape, then cut the squares. It should be remembered that dumplings are bigger in size than pelmeni, so the circumference and diagonal of blanks should not be less than 5 cm. Place the medium in the center of the desired form strictly in the center of the 3 cherries, sprinkle a little sugar and semolina (to absorb the juice, so that the vareniki do not get unstuck ). We fasten the edges, and dumplings with cherries are ready.
The dish is good because you can always make itfor future use. To do this, dumplings with cherries are placed in one layer (not to stick together) on parchment paper and placed in the freezer until they become firm. Now they can be folded and stored in a plastic bag or box at minus temperatures. Juicy and delicate vareniki will please both in summer and in the harsh winter.
Dumplings with cherries are cooked for a couple.You can just cook, placing in boiling water, stirring at the same time, until they float up, so that they do not stick together and stick to the bottom of the pan. Then they spread on the plate. Serve dumplings with cherries to the table with hot, watered cherry syrup or sour cream. To prepare cherry syrup you need juice, which should be carefully collected. In it, add sugar (per 100 grams of juice 10-15 grams of sugar) and cook for about five minutes on a small fire until a viscous consistency. The syrup is served in a gravy boat or with the dumplings themselves in a serving dish. You can serve dumplings with cherries and cold to tea, like dessert.
