Dumplings with cottage cheese are a very filling dish,which will become a full lunch, breakfast or dinner for the whole family. It can be made with kefir, sour milk, milk or water. In addition, the filling is selected in a variety of ways - men will probably prefer dumplings with meat, sauerkraut or potatoes, in the summer currants, raspberries or strawberries are relevant. You can prepare the dish from any products that your heart desires. Therefore, we suggest practicing your cooking. Choose the recipe you like and go for it!
Vareniki with milk and cheese
This is a fairly simple recipe that will makefluffy, juicy dumplings with cottage cheese will appear on your table. No ready-made store product can compare with homemade ones, so don't be lazy in cooking. Ingredients: For the dough:
- half a glass of water
- three egg whites
- half a glass of pasteurized milk
- table salt for your taste (we put half a teaspoon)
- sifted flour - six tablespoons
For the filling:
- two tablespoons of sugar
- 250 grams of fatty cottage cheese
- 30 grams of butter
- yolk - one piece
Method of preparation:At the very beginning of cooking, you need to separate the yolks from the whites. Then combine the latter with the above-mentioned amount of water, milk and table salt, mix thoroughly. Then gradually, adding sifted flour to the resulting mass, knead a dense dough. Cover it with a lid or a clean towel and leave for about half an hour. As a result, the base for the vareniki will become elastic. This is a very successful recipe, since the dough is prepared quickly and always turns out. You will see for yourself when you get down to business. Now you need to make the filling. Everything is quite simple: using a fork, grind the cottage cheese with egg yolk and sugar, then pour the mixture with pre-melted butter, and mix. Cut off a small piece of the finished dough and roll it with a rolling pin into a thin flat cake, then attach a glass or a small cup and cut out circles. Now put a little curd filling on each of them (one to one and a half teaspoons will be enough) and pinch the edges tightly with your fingers. Prepare the rest of the vareniki for cooking in the same way. If you end up with too many of them, don’t worry, just freeze the dish until your next meal. Boil the vareniki with curd in water that’s just starting to boil, adding table salt at a rate of one spoon (meaning a tablespoon) per four liters of boiling water. When they float to the surface, take one and taste it. Is it cooked, is the dough not raw? If so, take the vareniki out of the pan, put them on plates and serve. You can pour some butter or low-fat sour cream on top. Enjoy your meal!
Vareniki on yogurt with cottage cheese and raisins
Our grandmothers used this recipe.The dough on kefir turns out airy and tender, so your dumplings with cottage cheese will be eaten in one minute. So that no one remains hungry, try to cook as much as possible! Ingredients: For the dough:
- five glasses of sifted flour
- soda - one spoon (dining room)
- table salt - one teaspoon
- one egg
- half a liter of kefir
- sugar - one spoon (dining room)
For the filling:
- 350 grams of cottage cheese (you can use the ready-made cottage cheese mass)
- three large spoons of sugar
- golden raisins - 100 grams
Method of preparation:Combine the chicken egg with sugar and beat with a fork. Then pour table salt and quick soda into the wheat flour, mix thoroughly and form a funnel, gradually pour kefir and eggs into it. Knead the dough with your hands - it should be dense and elastic. When everything is ready, cover it with a towel and set aside for thirty minutes. This filling recipe includes homemade cottage cheese, but you can safely replace it with baby sweet curds or ready-made store-bought mass. So, thoroughly rub the cottage cheese with sugar with a fork until smooth. If the mixture is too dry, add one or two spoons of sour cream. Pour boiling water over the raisins, leave for fifteen minutes. When it is soft enough, rinse under the tap, squeeze out and add to the other ingredients. Some housewives also add the yolk, but we recommend doing this only if the eggs are homemade. An untested product may be a carrier of a disease such as salmonellosis. Roll out the dough into a thin layer and form small circles using a regular glass. Then put the curd mince in the middle of each. Make sure there is not too much of it, otherwise your creation will fall apart. Then pinch the edges of the dumplings with your fingers and cook in boiling water. When they rise to the surface, take one out and taste it. You can also steam this dish: hold each dumpling for three minutes on one side, then on the other. Just before putting the dish on the table, grease it with butter. You can serve it with homemade sour cream, cream or aromatic honey. By the way, if you want to make dumplings with kefir, but you don’t have this product on hand, and you don’t want to go to the store, replace it with yogurt or sour milk.
Vareniki in Ukrainian
This is an economical recipe for Ukrainian vareniki on water. You will need a minimum of products and very little time. Try it! Ingredients: For the dough:
- one glass of cool boiled water
- butter - 50 grams
- table salt - to taste
- two eggs
- wheat flour - "by eye" (about ten tablespoons)
For the filling:
- one yolk
- sugar
- 200 grams of cottage cheese
- one sachet of vanillin
Method of preparation:Pour the pre-sifted flour into a plate, form a shallow well in it and add the butter, cut into cubes. Beat the eggs with a whisk in a separate bowl and add them to the above ingredients, add salt to your taste and mix thoroughly. Then slowly pour in cold water in a thin stream. Knead a stiff, dense dough. Then sprinkle the work surface with a few pinches of flour and put the finished mass on it, knead it a few more times with your hands and leave for a short time. The recipe for this filling for vareniki is similar to the previous ones, the main difference is vanillin. To prepare it, combine sugar, cottage cheese, one yolk and vanillin. Mix all the ingredients well until smooth. Now roll out the thin dough with a rolling pin and form circles with a glass or cup. Put one and a half spoons of cottage cheese and vanilla filling in the middle and pinch the edges. Your dish is ready! The vareniki can be put in the freezer and taken out as needed. They are cooked in slightly salted water that is beginning to boil. They are served topped with sour cream, honey or melted butter.
"Lazy" vareniki from cottage cheese
This recipe should be on hand for every woman.women, because many children are partial to lazy dumplings with cottage cheese. Their huge advantage is the simplicity of preparation. In addition, the necessary set of products is small and not at all expensive. Ingredients:
- wheat flour - four tablespoons
- homemade cottage cheese - 400 grams
- sugar for your taste
- egg - one piece
- some flour for pouring
Method of preparation:In order for homemade cottage cheese to form better, pass it through a sieve or use a meat grinder for this. Then its mass will come out homogeneous. But if you use a store-bought product for making vareniki, then you don’t need to prepare it — it is already small enough. Now grind the cottage cheese with sugar, and add the latter to your taste. Then add the egg, flour and mix everything well. If you want the taste of the cottage cheese to be noticeable and prevail in the dish, add less flour (about three spoons) or just take more than the recipe says. However, it should be taken into account that the more tender the vareniki, the worse they behave during cooking, that is, they fall apart. Divide the dough into three or four parts and place them on a board sprinkled with flour. Then roll each one with your hands into a thin sausage and cut with a knife into small pieces (approximate length — 1.5 centimeters). Form them into “coins” and make a dent in the middle with your finger — this will help the dumplings hold the gravy. Boil them in lightly salted water on a moderate heat. After they float to the surface, hold for another three minutes and take them out. Serve in pretty plates, top with sour cream. You can also use melted homemade honey or jam as a sauce. We think your child will love this dish. As you can see, dumplings can be made in different ways: with kefir, water, sour milk, etc. Choose a simple dough recipe, try it out and make the dish, constantly changing the filling. Fruit filling is suitable in the summer, and vegetable filling (for example, potato or cabbage) is suitable in the winter. So enjoy creating and be full! We recommend reading:
