Prepared vareniki with potatoes can eachmistress, even the most inexperienced. A simple recipe of the test and filling will help create the most delicious and delicate vareniki. Let's learn more together about recipes and cooking options, different fillings and additives to them.
Description
Vareniki with potatoes are products from thinA soft dough, inside of which is a filling made of boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes (classic version). The filling is often supplemented with a browned onion or other vegetables.
The main component
Dough for dumplings with potatoes is prepared in various ways:
- on water, with egg, salt and wheat flour;
- on milk, with egg, vegetable oil, salt and wheat flour;
- on water, with egg, vinegar, salt, butter (or margarine) and flour - a variant of puff pastry.
Any of the proposed test options should be elastic, but soft. And dumplings on the water with potatoes are as delicious as if you used milk for the dough.
There is such a product one feature.Dough for dumplings with potatoes is prepared without the use of baking powder. The exception is vinegar - but it does not loosen the dough, but gives it layering. This dough is ideal for baked or fried products.
Filling options
Dumplings with potatoes can be with a variety of tastes, and the filling options are as follows:
- boiled potatoes puree with roasted vegetables or one onion (or green feathering);
- mashed potatoes and mushrooms fried with onions (mushrooms or boiled forest);
- mashed potatoes with grated cheese - used varieties of soft, hard or pickled cheese type (sweet varieties are not taken);
- mashed potatoes and a set of spices;
- mashed potatoes and chopped fresh greens (you can take dry and ground);
- potatoes with minced meat fried with onions (meat is taken any way you like - beef, pork or poultry);
- mashed tuber and boiled chopped egg (chicken or quail - to taste);
- finely chopped pork belly, bacon or sausage in addition to mashed potatoes;
- raw grated potatoes with inclusions of chopped greens, cheese, minced raw or onion.
It depends on how much the filling is prepared or prepared in advance, how much the dumplings are boiled with potatoes. Raw stuffing will take more time after boiling the broth in the pan.
It is important that for the filling do not take early potatoes. These tubers are soft and contain a small amount of starch - they form a puree of low quality, watery and tasteless.
How to make dumplings?
To make appetizing, even and identical dumplings, cooks use special techniques, including the following:
- work on a special molding machine - suchset at large enterprises engaged not only in the sale of dumplings in restaurants and other public catering establishments, but also in the supply of frozen convenience foods to stores;
- rolling a lump of dough into a thin layer andthe use of a special stand for molding dumplings or pasties (round shape with recesses) allows you to make several dumplings at once, but this method has a high consumption of dough;
- forming dough into a sausage and cutting it into small fragments, then each piece of dough is rolled out separately and molded by hand or with a special device for molding - “book”;
- Rolling dough into a thin layer and cutting it into even squares or diamonds - these are the basis for molding.
Potato dumplings. Recipe
What take ingredients:
- an egg is large - 1 piece;
- salt - a couple of pinches;
- liquid (water, milk or their mixture) - 200 ml;
- wheat flour - 600 g (+ on the subfire during the formation of products);
- 3-4 potato tubers (about 450 g);
- onions - a pair of heads;
- vegetable oil - 3-4 tbsp. l
The recipe for dumplings with potatoes is shown below:
- Для теста в миску разбейте яйцо. Влейте воду.Add salt and some flour. Stir well the mass. Add more flour and stir by hand. Gradually introducing flour and kneading, you get the dough. Place it directly on the table and, pressing and forming a uniform lump, make the desired structure of the dough. It is not necessary to knead it for a long time, otherwise it will be tightened, and dumplings will be poorly molded.
- Leave until the dough under the film on the table. Do not remove in the refrigerator.
- Rinse the potatoes and peel them - remove a thin layer. Peel and bulb onions. Wash vegetables under running water.
- Cut the onion into smaller pieces and sauté in oil in a frying pan until rosy color.
- And cut the potatoes into pieces and putboil in water. If foam forms, remove it. When the product becomes soft, drain the broth - it is not needed for the filling. Remember the potato mashed potatoes in a uniform mashed potatoes. Do not take a blender for this purpose! It will spoil the puree and make it a sticky mass.
- Mix mashed potatoes and fried onions,add salt to taste. Perhaps the inclusion of spices, spices or seasonings at will and preferences. In any case, mix the stuffing thoroughly until smooth.
- Take the dough.Form a sausage from it and cut it into small fragments - blanks for dumplings. Roll each out with a rolling pin. Do not stack these circles on top of one another, otherwise they are stuck together.
- When all the blanks are on the table, startdo stuffing. Using a teaspoon or dessert spoon, spread the mashed potatoes with vegetables into round pieces of dough. Each circle fold in half to form a semicircle - dumpling. Fingertip the edges with your hands or use a special tool - a cutter with a round rotating blade.
- Then use the products for their intended purpose - immediately boil in salted water, fry, bake or put in the freezer for storage for future use.
How to cook dumplings?
Dumplings are boiled almost the same as any.dumplings. The water in the pan is brought to a boil, salted. Dumplings are immersed in it one by one. The fire is increased to strong to accelerate the boiling of the broth. Then the dish is cooked over low heat until cooked.
Важно то, сколько варить вареники с картошкой.Time depends on the weight of each product and its type - fresh dough or frozen. In any case, the filling in the products has already been brought to readiness (mashed potatoes), so you only need to boil the dough until soft.
The finished dish can be sprinkled with spices, season with a piece of "green" butter, soft or frozen with herbs.
Fried or baked dumplings
Tasty vareniki with potatoes are obtained in fried or baked form.
For the pan fried option, follow these instructions:
- press each dumpling slightly to give it a slightly flat shape;
- Preheat butter in a frying pan and lay out the dough products;
- fry first with one, then - from the other side to a ruddy color on moderate fire.
To bake dumplings with potatoes, takepan and grease it with butter. Put the product and grease the top for ruddy color with beaten egg, cream or butter. Bake at an oven temperature of about 180-200 ° C until crispy crust. If desired, before baking, you can sprinkle them with grated cheese for an appetizing crust.
Freeze for the future
Dumplings with potatoes can be frozen for future use. Make it simple:
- Put baking parchment, food foil or film on a chopping board;
- put the dumplings one by one;
- put in the freezer drawer for 30-40 minutes for freezing;
- put in a plastic bag or a special container for freezing;
- store in the freezer.