In any kitchen there are so-called seasonal dishes. For us it is, for example, a winter vinaigrette, when sauerkraut ripens, or vareniki with cherries, which can not be forgotten in the height of the summer season. However, thanks to modern technology, vareniki with cherry filling have already ceased to be a seasonal dish, and they can be cooked at any time of the year - good, almost every supermarket sells frozen cherries. And the recipe of this dish is quite traditional and simple, so you can easily remember it and make dumplings stuffed with fresh or frozen cherries. So, if the soul asks, and your hands itch, remember the recipe and cook! 
Vareniki with fresh cherries
If the summer is in full swing, then it's just a sin notto taste dumplings with cherries. This tasty and sweet dish, perhaps, was tried by everyone, but not everyone cooked it at home. This is fixable. Let's try to make dumplings with cherries at home? Given that the recipe for their preparation is simple, cook any such vareniki absolutely any mistress. Ingredients:
- 500 (2 cups) of flour;
- 200 ml (glass) of water;
- 1 egg;
- 120 (slightly more than half a glass) of sugar;
- Half a kilo of fresh cherries;
- Sour cream (to taste)
- A pinch of salt.
How to cook dumplings with fillingof fresh cherries? For this, the berries need to be washed, then take out the bones and drain the juice. Some housewives immediately fall asleep with cherries sugar. So you can do, but then cherry will give away almost all the juice, and the filling will turn out to be rather dry. So, leave the cherry alone and proceed to prepare the dough. For him, we sift flour, put it in a bowl and add salt and egg to the flour. You can add a tablespoon of sugar. Pour half a glass of water into the flour and begin to knead the dough, gradually adding water, which, by the way, may need more or less than one glass. We need to consist of the consistency of the dough, which should become quite elastic, but remain soft and should not stick to the hands. Leave the dough for twenty to thirty minutes, and then knead it, laying it on the table and adding a little flour. Now we begin to mold vareniki. Here you have two options. In the first case, you roll the dough into a layer about three millimeters thick and cut out the circles using a wide glass. The second option is to pluck small pieces from the dough, roll them into a ball, and then from the ball to form flat round cakes of the right size. Do as you please: the recipe for cooking dumplings allows both options. Take the left hand palm, put it on a little (with a teaspoon) of cherries and pour about a teaspoon of sugar. Next, we begin to patch the edges, forming a semi-circle from the lozenge with the filling inside. To be more convenient to tamper with, fold a palm with a scone with a boat - a dumpling adopted by the dumpling will tell how it is more convenient to tamper with it. For beauty, you can peel the edge of the dumpling with a string, but you can not do it - the taste of the dish will not suffer from it. Stacked dumplings on a flour-poured table or cutting board, but do not leave it for a long time: the dough will get wet and break. While molding vareniki, put a pot of water on the stove - let the water boil. When the water boils, add it and dip into the boiling portion of vareniki and carefully (very carefully!) Mix. Cover the pan with a lid, and as soon as the water boils again, remove the lid. Cook the dumplings for ten to fifteen minutes. When they come up - you can take it out. Important! In no case do not leave ready-made vareniki in a pan with water - they will be dehydrated in it! Serve dumplings with sour cream or butter, sprinkle with sugar. 
Vareniki with frozen cherries
This recipe is practically no different fromprevious, except for cherries. But some nuances of this recipe still has. If you decide to make dumplings with frozen cherries, then the berries must be defrosted beforehand. Firstly, it will be more convenient for you to work with soft, and not with stone cherries. Secondly, the defrosted cherry gives a lot of juice, which in vareniki will be superfluous and will color the dough in blue. Third, the size of frozen berries is much greater than thawed, and dumplings in the cooking process you will become half-empty. Well, the recipe is traditional. Prepare the filling, knead the dough, boil the water, sculpt the vareniki and cook them. By the way, a frozen cherry can be replaced with a frozen cherry, which, however, can be done with fresh berries. Only choose cherries of brightly colored and sweet varieties. However, in this case you will not be able to get traditional vareniki with cherries. Externally - yes, but the taste will be different. Take, dear ladies for arming a recipe, cook vareniki and please yourself and your relatives with your own culinary skills and delicious summer (even in winter it will still be a summer!) Dish. Cook with pleasure, and a pleasant appetite for you! We advise you to read:
