How to make kefir dumplings with potatoes. Delicious kefir dumplings: recipes for dough and fillings
Dumplings with potatoes - Ukrainian cuisine. In addition to potatoes, you can stuff others. For example, cabbage, cottage cheese or an egg with herbs.
It is advisable not to cook dumplings with potatoes in reserve, since hot potatoes lose their taste + are poorly digested. Prepare as many dumplings as you eat at once.
The dough for kefir dumplings is made from:
- Kefir - glass
- Flour - 5 glasses
- Soda - half a teaspoon
- Salt to taste
Filling for dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms:
- Potatoes - 8 pcs.
- Mushrooms (canned champignons) - jar
- Onions - 2 onions
- Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons
- Butter - 10 g.
- Table salt - to taste
- Ground black pepper - half a teaspoon
Recipe for kefir dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms
Boil the potatoes first. First you need to wash it, then clean it, cut out dark spots and wormholes. Then cut it into several pieces and put in a saucepan. Saucepan with chopped, peeled potatoes, pour cold water and put on high heat. As soon as it begins to boil, begin to remove the white foam. Salt a little and lower the stove temperature. And let it cook for about 20 minutes. 
In the meantime, the potatoes are boiling, fry the onions. Take the onion and peel it, then rinse it under cold water and cut it into small cubes. Heat a skillet with vegetable oil over medium heat. And when it warms up, put the chopped onion there. Fry it until golden. Stir it from time to time so that it cooks well on each side. 
Now do filling for dumplings. To do this, mash the boiled potatoes, add a little water in which it was cooked and butter, and add salt and pepper. Add 1/3 of the fried onion to the resulting puree and mix well. Let it cool down.
Open the jar of mushrooms, take them out, chop finely and put in mashed potatoes and mix well. Any mushrooms you like will do, but canned is better - it will cook much faster this way. 
Pour kefir into a container (bowl). Add baking soda, table salt and stir well.
Then gradually sift the flour there, stirring constantly until the dough thickens. 
Then take it out and put it on a table covered with flour and stir it until there is a mass without lumps. The dough will be tough and won't stick to your hands.
Now you need to roll out and divide the dough. To do this, roll out a lump of dough into a rectangle. Cut a strip 2 cm wide and cut it into pieces. Dip the resulting pieces of dough into flour where the cut was, and then roll them on the table in the form of circles. 
It remains only to mold the dumplings, and then boil. - place the filling in the center of the mug and mold the edges of the dumpling. Put the finished dumplings on a board, covered with a little flour with a distance of about 1 centimeter, so that they do not stick to each other. This makes about 24 dumplings. Pour 60% filtered water over a saucepan and set on medium heat. When the water starts to boil, add salt after 5 minutes and start putting the dumplings there. After a few minutes, lower the temperature of the stove and cook until they are completely cooked - about 15-20 minutes. 
When the dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms are boiled, take them out and put them on plates. Sprinkle the remaining sautéed onions on top and stir. It goes very well with sour cream.
Enjoy your meal! 
Other about cooking kefir dumplings with potatoes:
- Kefir can be replaced with plain water
- The filling can be replaced with another
- Use wheat flour, top grade... Then it will be softer and softer.
- It is better to use a fine sieve for sifting.
- Baking soda can be replaced with baking powder
Kefir dumplings - general cooking principles
It is believed that the most delicious dumplings are obtained from kefir dough. It turns out to be very tender, light and goes well with any fillings. Kefir dumplings can be prepared with cottage cheese, berry, potato, mushroom, cabbage and other fillings. The dough itself is very simple to prepare: kefir is mixed with flour, eggs, salt and flour. Sometimes a little sugar is added. The dough should be elastic and not too stiff. After that, the dough is rolled out into a thin layer and circles are cut out with a sharp glass. Filling is placed in the center of each circle and the edges are closed. Ready-made dumplings can be frozen and cooked just before serving. Kefir dumplings can also be steamed - in this case, they will definitely not stick out and will retain their shape.
Kefir dumplings - preparation of food and dishes
To make kefir dumplings, you will need kitchen utensils such as a bowl, saucepan, rolling pin, whisk, and a glass with sharp edges.
Before cooking, you need to measure the right amount kefir, sift flour, prepare sugar and eggs. For the filling, you need to sort out and wash the berries. If vegetables are used, it is necessary to wash them, chop and stew (boil, fry, etc.).
Kefir dumplings recipes:
Recipe 1: dumplings on kefir
Such kefir dumplings are prepared quite simply and go well with any filling. The recipe uses curd filling with raisins. Serving kefir dumplings with cottage cheese is best served with sour cream.
Required Ingredients:
For the test:
- Kefir - 1 box (500 ml);
- Flour - 4-5 tbsp. (look by consistency);
- 1 egg;
- Baking dough - 2 tsp;
- A spoonful of sugar;
- Salt - 1 tsp
For filling:
- Cottage cheese - half a kilo;
- Sugar - 3-4 tablespoons;
- A spoonful of sour cream;
- Vanillin;
- 1 yolk;
- Raisin.
Cooking method:
Dough preparation:
Mix flour with salt and baking powder, sift into a bowl. Stir the sugar with the egg and add to the flour, then gently pour in the kefir. Mix all ingredients and knead the dough. Form a ball out of the dough and leave for half an hour.
Cooking dumplings:
Sort the raisins, rinse and soak in water for 10 minutes. Add sugar, yolk and vanillin to the curd, mix thoroughly. Rinse and dry the raisins again, put in the curd. Mix the mass again. Roll out the dough into a thin layer, cut into the circles with a glass. Put the filling in the middle of each mug, connect the edges tightly. Cook the dumplings in boiling water until tender. Serve ready-made curd dumplings on kefir with sour cream.
Recipe 2: dumplings on kefir
Cherries are one of the most popular fillings for dumplings. The treat will turn out even tastier if you prepare the dough for dumplings on kefir. For the filling, you can take fresh or frozen cherries.
Required Ingredients:
For the test:
- 300 g of kefir;
- 3 eggs;
- A teaspoon of sugar;
- Salt;
- 600 g flour;
- Vegetable oil.
For filling:
- Cherry;
- Sugar;
- Oil - for serving.
Cooking method:
Dough preparation:
Add sugar, salt and eggs to the kefir, beat well. Pour in 300 g of flour and stir the mixture with a mixer, then add the remaining half of the flour and knead the dough. Add a little vegetable oil to the dough, mix and leave the dough for a while.
Cooking dumplings:
Sort the cherries, rinse and remove the seeds. Roll out the dough and cut out circles. Put a few berries in the middle and sprinkle with sugar. If you are using frozen cherries, you do not need to defrost them. Close the edges tightly. Boil the dumplings on kefir until tender, when serving, put a piece of butter on a plate and pour over sour cream.
Recipe 3: Kefir dumplings with blueberries
Great recipe for baby food... Kefir dumplings with blueberries are very tender and tasty. During the cooking process, such dumplings retain their shape, so the filling stays inside, and does not flow into the pan.
Required Ingredients:
For the test:
- A pound of flour;
- 200 ml of kefir;
- 1 egg;
- 2 tablespoons of sugar;
- A little salt.
For filling:
- Fresh or frozen blueberries - one and a half cups;
- A spoonful of starch;
- 3 tablespoons of sugar.
Cooking method:
Dough preparation:
Break an egg into kefir, add sugar and salt, beat thoroughly. Pour flour into kefir and knead the dough.
Cooking dumplings:
Rinse the berries, add sugar and starch to them and mix. Roll out the dough and cut out circles with a glass. Place the filling in the middle of each mug and seal the edges tightly. Cook the dumplings in boiling water for about 5-6 minutes. Serve with butter and sour cream. You can also sprinkle with icing sugar.
- In the process of preparing the dough, the proportions must be observed: for 500 ml of kefir, they usually take a teaspoon of soda;
- Flour should always be taken with a margin, as it will be needed to sprinkle the work surface. If the dough is rolled out on a bare table, it will stick strongly to your hands.
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Since the end of the 18th century, fragrant juicy dumplings have become a favorite and irreplaceable dish of the Ukrainian feast. Even then, Ukrainian housewives had many different ideas for preparing this hearty and delicious food... What are the only dumplings with cracklings and onions ... Nothing conveys the smell and taste of hearth, comfort, country life like sturdy, self-prepared dumplings.
The Ukrainians borrowed the idea of this dish from the Turks. They really liked the Turkish "dush-vara", the so-called boiled pies with meat. They are more like dumplings. But the Ukrainian people are very entrepreneurial, so almost immediately they were invented different options cooking this dish.
There appeared dumplings with vegetables, fruits, berries, cottage cheese, legumes and even "dumplings with sand", where the basis of the filling is flour fried in cracklings. The serving of the dish to the table is also different. Served with sour cream, fried onions and vegetable oil, various sauces and even with jam.
The dough is also prepared in different ways. Someone loves thin crust, but someone likes lush dumplings. In fact, each housewife has her own approach and preferences for making dough.
Many Ukrainian gourmets love lush, tender dumplings that melt in the mouth. To do this, it is enough to know that the dough should be cooked on a fermented milk product and, better, with the addition of soda. Fatty kefir will be an ideal product for the dough, although in the absence of it, yogurt, whey and even sour cream diluted with water will also work.
Food preparation
To knead the dough, you need to prepare required list products. It is better to use fermented milk homemade kefir, well, or store, just not fat-free. Wheat flour it is better to buy the highest grade and sift several times. You will also need fresh egg and salt. Actually, that's all. As you can see, you will need the most simple products that any housewife has in the refrigerator.
Dough preparation
Ingredients
- wheat flour - 2 cups;
- kefir - 250 ml;
- egg - 1 pc;
Step by step recipe with photo
- Sift the flour into a volumetric container several times. We form a small hole in the middle of the flour slide.
- Dissolve the salt in kefir, and pour the liquid mixture into the prepared hole. Add an egg there.
- We knead elastic dough and set it aside for 20 - 30 minutes to rest.
- We take the rested dough, divide it into several parts, from which we roll out thin layers.
- Using a glass or a glass with wide sides, cut out circles from the dough.
- Put any filling in the middle of the circle and sculpt the dumpling, tightly connecting the edges.
- These are such cute dumplings.
- Boil the dumplings in salted water for 5-10 minutes, until they float to the surface. It is also helpful to steam the dumplings.
Dough preparation options for dumplings
The taste of the dish directly depends on the method of preparation of the dough and the products used. Lean or rich, thin or thick crust- an individual choice of each. Let's consider several options for dumplings dough.
Steamed baking soda dough
Ingredients:
- flour - 2 cups;
- kefir - 1 - 1.5 cups;
- sunflower oil - 3 tbsp. l;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. l;
- soda - 1 tsp;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. l;
- salt.
Sift flour, make a small hole in it. Add sugar, salt, soda, pour in butter and kefir. Knead the dough thoroughly until smooth and elastic. Next, we divide the dough into equal parts. We form thin layers, from which we cut out medium-sized circles. Fill each circle with your favorite filling and pinch the edges. Cooking dumplings in a double boiler or slow cooker.
Kefir dough without eggs
Ingredients:
- flour - 2 cups;
- kefir - 1 glass;
- soda - 1 tsp;
- salt.
Sift flour, combine it with soda and salt, add kefir. Knead the elastic non-sticky dough and set it aside for 15 minutes. thin pancakes from the dough, from which we form small circles. We put any filler in the center of each product. We make dumplings. Cook or steam.
Dough with the addition of yogurt
Ingredients:
- flour - 2.5 cups;
- curdled milk - 250 ml;
- egg - 1 pc;
- soda - 1.5 tsp;
- salt to taste;
- sugar - 1 tbsp. l.
Put soda and salt in the sifted flour. Mix the egg with sugar without beating. Egg mixture add to flour. We also pour in yogurt. Knead an elastic, soft dough.
Kefir dough in a bread maker
Ingredients:
- flour - 2 cups;
- kefir - 1 - 1.5 cups;
- salt;
- soda - 0.5 tsp;
- vinegar - 1 tsp.
The dough in a bread maker is the easiest to prepare. We just put all the ingredients in the bread maker and set the desired program for kneading the dough for 15 minutes.
We take out ready dough and make dumplings.
Toppings
With vegetables
With potato
Dumplings with potatoes are the most popular among lovers of Ukrainian cuisine. The filling is quick and easy to prepare.
Of the products you will need:
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- onions - 2 large heads;
- vegetable oil- for frying;
- salt.
We clean the potatoes, wash them. If it is large, then we cut it into several parts, if it is small, then you can put it entirely in a saucepan. Fill the potatoes with water and cook. You can add cloves of garlic and bay leaves to the pot to make the potatoes more flavorful. Add salt in the middle of cooking. When the potatoes are soft, drain the water and crush until smooth.
Cut the onion into half rings or quarters. Fry in vegetable oil until light Brown... Add a little fried onion to the puree. Leave the rest of the onion for gravy with dumplings.
When the dumplings with potatoes are cooked, we serve them to the table in a convenient container, pouring oil and fried onions.
With cabbage
Products:
- white cabbage - ½ head of cabbage;
- onions - 2 heads;
- garlic to taste;
- sugar to taste;
- salt;
- oil - for frying.
Finely chop the cabbage and send it to the stove to stew. In the middle of preparing the filling, add half of the onion, chopped into half rings, chopped garlic to the cabbage. Salt. Sugar can be added or not, it all depends on taste. If you like sweeter cabbage, you can add a spoonful of sugar while cooking.
When the cabbage has become soft and brown, remove it from the stove. The filling for the dumplings is ready. It remains only to fry the remaining onions for dressing the dumplings.
With cottage cheese
Products:
- cottage cheese of any fat content - 0.5 kg;
- egg yolks- 2 pcs;
- sugar or salt;
- sour cream.
Better to use homemade cottage cheese, as it is always tastier and healthier. You choose the fat content yourself. Of course, the fatter, the tastier and more nutritious. You need to knead the cottage cheese with a fork or mixer until puree, so that no lumps remain. Add egg yolks to the curd and mix thoroughly.
If you like salty cottage cheese, then add salt, if sweet, then sugar or powdered sugar, respectively.
IN sweet curd if desired, you can add steamed raisins. It also turns out very tasty.
The filling is ready, you can sculpt dumplings.
Dumplings with cottage cheese are served with sour cream. Some people like dumplings with salted cottage cheese season with fried onions.
With berries
With strawberry
Products:
- fresh or frozen strawberries - 0.5 kg;
- sugar
Strawberry filling is very easy to make. If this fresh berries, just wash it. You need to spread them on the dough, sprinkle with sugar.
If the berries are frozen, then they should be completely thawed, you can cut the berries into slices and mix with sugar. Strawberry filling ready for dumplings.
With cherry
Products:
- fresh or frozen cherries;
- sugar
Cherry filling is prepared similarly to strawberry filling. Only if cherries with seeds, then it is better to take them out for convenience and safety.
Put fresh cherries on dough circles, sprinkle with sugar and sculpt dumplings.
Let the frozen cherries melt, sprinkle with sugar and the cherry filling is ready.
With blueberries
Products:
- fresh or frozen blueberries;
- sugar
Sprinkle fresh blueberries with sugar and fill dumplings with it.
Defrost frozen blueberries, combine with sugar. Berry filling ready for dumplings.
The nutritional value
Since dumplings with potatoes are the most common and loved by the Slavic people, we will consider nutritional value exactly them.
Nutritional value per 100 grams of product:
- 190 kcal;
- proteins - 4 g;
- fats - 5 g;
- carbohydrates - 30 gr.
Potatoes also contain vitamins, for example, PP, B, A, amino acids that strengthen the immune system, vascular walls, and support the normal functioning of the heart.
Video recipe
You can also watch the preparation of dumplings on kefir by referring to the video:
- It is better to let the prepared kefir dough steep for a while, it will become more elastic and soft;
- vegetable fillings will become tastier if dumplings are seasoned with fried onions and sunflower oil;
- the addition of soda to the flour gives additional splendor to the dough;
- it is better to steam the dumplings, this way their benefits and juiciness are preserved.
In the preparation of dumplings, the dough is of paramount importance. It depends on him whether the products will stick together, whether they will fall apart during cooking. No matter how tasty the filling is, and if the dough is tough or "hammered", the dish does not evoke appetite. Each housewife has her own recipe for dumplings. One universal cooking formula elastic dough no. On water, in milk, with and without eggs, with the addition of yeast - there are many ways to make delicious dumplings. The recipe for kefir dough will be the topic of this article. Milk makes the base softer, more tender. And when it has entered the sour stage, the dough acquires an interesting taste and airiness. Such a base is suitable for dumplings with potatoes, cabbage, mushrooms, liver, cheese. It can also be used to make dumplings. But it is also suitable for sweet dumplings with berries.
Food preparation
In Poltava, the culinary capital of Ukraine, dumplings are made only with kefir. Because of this, they melt in the mouth. The dough for dumplings on kefir turns out to be elastic, rolls thinly, sticks well. It is strong enough to hold such a "naughty" filling like berries inside. To get good delicious dough, it is better to make kefir yourself - from whole farm milk. If you still have to buy a manufactured product, choose the one with the highest fat content. The oils contained in kefir make the dough softer. For the preparation of Poltava dumplings, we need an egg, salt, two glasses of flour. And the filling, of course.
Dough kneading
Poltava dumplings with cherries, along with dumplings with chicken and garlic and duck stuffed with pancakes, are “ business card»Regional cuisine. Every year in Velyki Sorochintsy (which is near the famous Dikanka) a festival dedicated to Gogol is held. The writer in his works has repeatedly glorified the masterpieces of Ukrainian cuisine and, in particular, dumplings. Therefore, at the festival you can taste about fifty varieties of this wonderful dish. Let's prepare the dough for dumplings on kefir in Poltava style. In a glass of a high-fat fermented milk product, dissolve a pinch of salt. This will distribute it better over the test. And then just mix all of the above ingredients. Knead an elastic, tough dough. It is left for half an hour to get through. And then they start making dumplings. In some places in the Poltava region, they are steamed. This makes the dish more fluffy, downright airy.
Another recipe
It is similar to the previous one, but the proportions of the ingredients have been changed. Sugar and soda are added to this dough for kefir dumplings. In addition, it is prepared from two substances: liquid and bulk. First, shake one egg with a tablespoon of sugar. In half a liter of kefir, dissolve a teaspoon of salt. Sift five glasses of flour through a sieve onto a cutting board. Mix it with a spoonful of baking soda. We make a funnel at the top of the flour slide, pour in the egg and kefir. Knead the dough for a long time. Even when it has ceased to stick to our hands, we do not stop working - your efforts will be rewarded a hundredfold. After that, cover the bun with a napkin and leave for half an hour. These dumplings can be steamed. But you can also in the usual way - in boiling water.
Dough for dumplings on kefir without eggs
There is one more recipe. It differs from the previous ones only in that the dough does not include eggs. However, the preparation of such dumplings has its own nuances. Add a pinch of salt and a teaspoon (no top) of soda to three glasses of flour. Carefully pour in 220 milliliters of kefir, stirring at the same time. The consistency of the dough turns out to be as if playing in the hand. Since it does not contain eggs, in order to soften the gluten of the flour, they forcefully throw it on the table fifty times. After this, the test is allowed to rest for half an hour. During this time, you can prepare the filling. It should be said that the dough for kefir dumplings may require more flour than indicated in the recipe. Readiness for sculpting is checked by the fact that the mass does not stick to the hands.
This method is not much different from the traditional one. The only difference is that the batch is done by the unit. The dough for dumplings on kefir in a bread maker comes out tender and airy, elastic and durable. It is a pleasure to sculpt products from it, like from soft plasticine. Dumplings can be boiled in salted boiling water or steamed - they hold the filling equally securely. As they cook, they increase in size, become "fluffier", with round sides. However, dumplings made from such dough should not be overcooked. When they come up, you should reduce the fire to a minimum and after half a minute, fish them out with a slotted spoon. Steamed dumplings are prepared as follows: pull cheesecloth over a pan or put a sieve. Spread dumplings over boiling water. A dome-shaped cover is installed on top. After three minutes, the dumplings are turned over and kept like that for the same time.
Dumplings are one of the most favorite dishes of the Slavic peoples. It is believed that dumplings come from Ukraine, but they love and know how to cook them both in Russia and Belarus. There are a huge variety of recipes for their preparation. Dumplings are made with potatoes, cabbage, mushrooms, cottage cheese, berries and fruits. That is, the filling can be very different. Similarly, there is different ways making dough for of this dish... Someone cooks it with water, others use milk. And now we will tell you the recipes for making dough for kefir dumplings. It is on kefir that the dough comes out the softest, most tender and delicious.
Dough for dumplings with potatoes on kefir
Ingredients:
- flour - 4 cups;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- salt - 10 g;
- kefir - 230 ml.
Preparation
Sift flour into a large bowl, add salt, pour in kefir and drive in eggs. We stir first with a wooden spatula, and later, when the dough has already absorbed the liquid, we continue to knead it with our hands. If the dough is already thick enough, and there is still flour in the bowl, put the dough on the table and knead it for a couple of minutes. After that, cover it and leave it to rest for half an hour. After this time has elapsed, divide the dough into 5 equal parts and roll each of them with sausage. We cut them into pieces about 2 cm wide.Turn them into flat cakes and put the filling in the center on each of them. Connect the edges of the dough and pinch tightly. We dip the dumplings in boiling water and after they float, cook for another 5 minutes.
Dough for steamed dumplings on kefir
Ingredients:
- - 1 glass;
- salt - 1 tsp;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- flour - 2 cups;
- soda - 1 tsp.
Preparation
Sift 2 cups flour into a large bowl. You don't need to do this, but with sifted flour the dough turns out to be more tender. In the center we make a depression, pour kefir, vegetable oil into it, add sugar, salt. Knead the dough. And then the most interesting thing - sprinkle the work surface with soda, put our dough on it and knead it well for about 10 minutes. Then we divide it into pieces, roll the sausages with a diameter of about 3 cm, and then cut them into pieces. We roll each of them to a thickness of 5 mm and start forming dumplings with our favorite filling. Next, we put them in a steamer basket, oiled, at some distance from each other and send them to a double boiler or multicooker.
Kefir dough for dumplings with cottage cheese
Ingredients:
- kefir 2.5% fat - 1 glass;
- eggs - 1 pc.;
- flour - 2.5 cups;
- sugar - 1 tsp;
- salt - a pinch;
- soda - 1/3 tsp.
Preparation
Pour kefir into a deep bowl, drive in an egg, add salt, sugar and soda. Stir well and let stand for 5 minutes so that the soda reacts with kefir. After that, gradually we begin to add flour, 
kneading the dough in parallel. Do not pour it all at once, it is better to add in parts until the dough completely begins to lag behind the hands. Depending on the type of flour, a little more or less may go. After that, we already cover the dough and leave it right on the table for 15-20 minutes. Then we divide it into several parts. We begin to work with one of them, and let the rest lie under the napkin so that it does not weather. Roll out a tourniquet from the dough and cut it into pieces. Slightly flatten each piece with your hands, and then roll it out. Alternatively, you can roll out the entire dough at once and cut circles out of it with a glass. But this method leaves a lot of waste. But in any case, the choice is yours. Next, on each circle we put curd filling and fasten the edges.