Vareniki is one of the most favorite dishes of the Slavic peoples. It is believed that vareniki come from Ukraine, but people love and know how to cook them in Russia and Belarus. There are a huge number of recipes for their preparation. Dumplings are made with potatoes, and with cabbage, and with mushrooms, cottage cheese, berries and fruits. That is, the filling can be very different. Similarly, there are different ways to prepare the dough for this dish. Some cook it with water, others use milk. And now we will tell you the recipes for making dough for dumplings on kefir. 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.
Cooking
Sift flour into a large bowl, add salt, pour in kefir and beat in eggs. We mix 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 has already turned out to be quite dense, and the flour is still left in the bowl, put the dough on the table and knead it for a couple more minutes. After that, cover it and leave it to rest for half an hour. After this time, divide the dough into 5 equal parts and roll each of them with a sausage. We cut them into pieces about 2 cm wide. We turn them into cakes and put the filling from each of them in the center. We connect the edges of the dough and pinch tightly. 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 teaspoon;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- flour - 2 cups;
- soda - 1 teaspoon.
Cooking
Sift 2 cups flour into a large bowl. You can not do this, but with sifted flour, the dough turns out to be more tender. In the center we make a recess, pour kefir, vegetable oil into it, add sugar, salt. Knead the dough. And then the most interesting thing is to sprinkle the work surface with soda, put our dough on it and knead it well for about 10 minutes. Next, divide it into pieces, roll up 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 proceed to the formation of dumplings with our favorite filling. Next, put them in a steamer basket, greased with oil, at some distance from each other and send them to a double boiler or a slow cooker.
Kefir dough for dumplings with cottage cheese
Ingredients:
- kefir 2.5% fat - 1 cup;
- eggs - 1 pc.;
- flour - 2.5 cups;
- sugar - 1 teaspoon;
- salt - a pinch;
- soda - 1/3 teaspoon.
Cooking
Pour kefir into a deep bowl, beat 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 begin to add flour, 
while kneading the dough. It is not worth pouring it all at once, it is better to add it in parts until the dough completely begins to lag behind the hands. Depending on the type of flour, it may go a little more or less. 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 a napkin so that it does not get weathered. We roll out a tourniquet from the dough and cut it into pieces. With your hands, flatten each piece slightly, and then roll it out. Or you can roll out the whole 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, put the curd filling on each circle and fasten the edges.
Steamed homemade kefir dough dumplings always turn out fluffy and incredibly tasty. Today I will share my proven recipe. The dough for dumplings on kefir is absolutely always obtained. For everyone who wants to cook this delicious dish, my detailed recipe and step-by-step photos will help to knead the magnificent dough for dumplings. Each hostess has all the ingredients in stock, so take note. Cook with love and pamper yourself and your loved ones.
So we need:
- kefir or sour milk - 150 milligrams;
- chicken egg - 1 piece;
- salt - 1 teaspoon;
- soda - 1 teaspoon (without a mountain);
- premium wheat flour - 300-350 grams (how much dough will take).
How to cook dough for steamed dumplings
You need to knead the dough for dumplings in a convenient deep container. First you need to mix salt, soda and egg. Beat them up a bit with a fork. Add warm kefir or sour milk. I have sour milk, which I got from homemade milk.
Beat the mixture with a fork until foam appears. This means that the acid, which is in kefir, extinguished the soda. The warmer the sour milk or kefir, the more active the mixture will foam, it may even run away from the container. Therefore, I recommend stirring the mixture over a plate or container with flour, in which you will knead the dough for dumplings with cottage cheese.
We choose wheat flour of the highest grade so that the dumplings are white and airy. Don't forget to sift the wheat flour.
Make a well in a bowl or bowl of flour to pour in the liquid ingredients of the dough. The recess is not deep, but sufficient so that the liquid does not escape.
Pour the liquid mixture into the sifted wheat flour.
With a fork, in a circle, add flour, kneading the dough. Thanks to the use of a fork, the hands at this stage will remain clean. Which is convenient if you also take a photo of the process. 🙂
When the dough has acquired a dense structure and is difficult to mix with a fork, knead it with your hands.
The readiness of the dough is easy to check, just pull off a piece of dough. If it does not tear, then everything is done correctly and the dough for dumplings is ready.
It remains just to form a ball of dough and leave it alone for twenty minutes. After a while, it is ready for sculpting dumplings, which, when steamed, will acquire a very lush structure.
Lush dough for dumplings on kefir is suitable for any filling, it all depends on your desire and mood. I often cook delicious, potatoes, mushrooms. For sweet dumplings, the dough is also suitable, it is enough, after cooking, to sprinkle them with sugar or add a little more sugar to the filling.
If, when sculpting dumplings, the filling is over, but the dough is left, then you can freeze it by wrapping it in cling film. But I prefer, if frozen, then dumplings. 😉 To just take them out of the freezer at the right time and cook them.
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 hard or “clogged”, the dish does not cause appetite. Each housewife has her own recipe for dumplings. There is no one universal formula for making elastic dough. On water, on milk, with and without eggs, with the addition of yeast - there are many ways to cook delicious dumplings. The kefir test recipe 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 lightness. 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 your mouth. The dough for dumplings on kefir turns out to be elastic, thinly rolled out, well glued. It is strong enough to keep such "naughty" stuffing like berries inside. To get a good, tasty dough, it is better to make kefir yourself - from whole farm milk. If you still have to buy a factory-made product, choose the one with the highest fat content. The oils contained in kefir make the dough softer. Even for the preparation of Poltava dumplings, we need an egg, salt, two glasses of flour. And toppings, of course.
Dough kneading
Poltava dumplings with cherries, along with dumplings with chicken and garlic and duck stuffed with pancakes, are the hallmark of the regional cuisine. Every year in Velikie Sorochintsy (near the famous Dikanka) a festival dedicated to Gogol is held. The writer in his works repeatedly glorified the masterpieces of Ukrainian cuisine and, in particular, dumplings. Therefore, at the festival you can try about fifty varieties of this wonderful dish. Let's prepare the dough for dumplings on kefir in Poltava style. Dissolve a pinch of salt in a glass of high-fat fermented milk product. So it will be better distributed over the test. And then just mix all the above ingredients. Knead a firm, stiff dough. It is left for half an hour to reach. And then they start making dumplings. In some places in the Poltava region they are steamed. So the dish turns out more fluffy, downright airy.
One more 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 dumplings on kefir. In addition, it is prepared from two substances: liquid and loose. First, shake one egg with a tablespoon of sugar. In half a liter of kefir, dissolve a teaspoon of salt. Sift five cups of flour through a sieve onto a cutting board. Mix it with a soup spoon of soda. We make a funnel at the top of the flour hill, pour in the egg and kefir. Knead the dough for a long time. Even when it has ceased to stick to your 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 it is possible in the usual way - in boiling water.
Dough for dumplings on kefir without eggs
There is another 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. In three glasses of flour, add a pinch of salt and a teaspoon (without top) of soda. Carefully pour in 220 milliliters of kefir, stirring at the same time. The consistency of the dough is as if playing in the hand. Since it does not contain eggs, in order to soften the gluten of the flour, it is thrown fifty times with force on the table. After that, the dough 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 modeling 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 does the unit. The dough for dumplings on kefir in a bread machine 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 reliably. As they cook, they increase in size, become "fluffier", with round sides. However, dumplings from such a dough cannot be digested. When they emerge, reduce the fire to a minimum and after half a minute already fish them out with a slotted spoon. For a couple, dumplings are prepared as follows: they put cheesecloth on the pan or put a sieve. Dumplings are spread over boiling water. Install a domed lid on top. After three minutes, the dumplings are turned over and kept like that for the same amount of time.
In order to make lush, tasty and satisfying dumplings with potatoes, you need to make dough. Of course, many people know how to cook it, but not everyone knows that you can also make it on kefir. Such dumplings are much tastier. And you can make this super dough for dumplings and dumplings at any time, even when there is very little of it, and this is a big plus.
Cooking time: 50 minutes
Servings: 1 (30-35 cooked dumplings)
Calories: 150 kcal per 100 grams
Dumplings from such a dough are incredibly lush and tasty without extra calories. This is because the recipe is simply wonderful and it will not be difficult to cook delicious kefir dumplings with it. This recipe is a must-have in your recipe book.
- 800 grams of wheat flour;
- 400 milliliters of kefir;
- 1 chicken egg;
- 0.5 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 teaspoon baking soda.
Recipe
- In fact, it’s very easy to cook and make everything if you start step by step to follow the recipe. It is required to take a deep small bowl into which you need to pour kefir and stir it well.
- In another bowl, beat the egg thoroughly with salt. It is important that the grains of the latter dissolve and do not meet at the bottom of the egg mixture. If this does not happen, then the dough may salt unevenly, and this will also affect the kefir dumplings themselves with potatoes or cottage cheese.
- Now we combine the beaten egg with kefir and add a little soda. With soda, the main thing is not to overdo it and not use vinegar, since, having interacted with kefir, soda without vinegar will give the desired effect.
- When the mixture is well mixed, you can start preparing the dough. Take a bowl into which we sift the flour. Flour should be 1 or higher grade, so the dough will turn out much softer. Now we make a small hole in this flour. Pour the egg-kefir mixture into the hole and proceed to knead the dough.
- Knead the dough very carefully, if necessary, slowly add flour to make the dough lush, elastic and hard.
- It is advisable to knead the dough with your hands, so it will turn out even better, although this is much more difficult to do.
- The finished dough should be dense in its consistency, and should not stick to hands and surrounding surfaces. Otherwise, you will need to add a little more flour, but do not overdo it. Too steep dough is not needed, the recipe does not achieve this.
- Now such a dough can be sent for 20–30 minutes to lie on the table under a napkin or cling film, after which you can make delicious kefir dumplings with potatoes and cottage cheese from it.
- To make dumplings, you will need to take the dough, cut off some part of it and roll it into a tourniquet with a rolling pin. Each resulting tourniquet is cut into small circles-coins and rolled out, but not very thinly, otherwise dumplings with potatoes or cottage cheese may break during cooking.
The second test preparation- roll out the whole large lump into a very thin layer no more than 3-5 millimeters. From such a layer, using a cup or glass, cut out circles. We roll them out a little or leave them in the same state. We spread the filling with a spoon and the recipe for dumplings is actually over.
Cook kefir dumplings with potatoes or cottage cheese, from which dough it is incredibly easy to cook in a saucepan for no more than 15 minutes and you're done! Lush dough for dumplings on kefir will definitely meet your expectations.
Equipment for making dumplings
The recipe for delicious homemade dough is no longer a secret. It is not so difficult to do it, the main thing is to follow everything step by step, and, of course, try. Then the recipe will work for you.
Cook delicious and enjoy your meal!
When my culinary journey was just beginning, I often faced the problem of choosing in search of that “most correct and delicious” recipe. There are hundreds of recipes for the same dish on the Internet, in general, they are similar to each other, but still contain differences. And you never know in advance which recipe you will run into. So, in a long and hard process of trial and error, the “same” recipe is finally found. Why am I? I bring to the fact that everything is exactly the same with dough recipes. And in order not to search again and again, not to try and not make mistakes, I offer you a wonderful recipe for dumplings prepared on kefir that I personally tested.
Vareniki with this kefir dough are tender, but elastic enough to hold a juicy berry filling. This dough for dumplings on kefir has a delicate neutral taste and can be used in the preparation of both dumplings with sweet fillings (cottage cheese, cherries, strawberries, and so on) and unsweetened ones (potatoes, liver, mushrooms, meat, cabbage, and so on). It is a pleasure to work with such a test. It is supple, elastic, easily rolled out with a rolling pin.
In some versions of the dough recipe for kefir dumplings, you can see soda in the dough. I do not put it in this dough. It has been repeatedly verified that dumplings cooked on such a kefir dough still acquire “splendor” during cooking, and even without soda in the dough. And if you add soda, then the dumplings will completely spread by leaps and bounds.
From my own experience, I can say that from the declared ingredients, as many dumplings are obtained as enough to feed a family of 4-6 people, and even a little will be left. Be sure to take note of this recipe, it will definitely not disappoint you.
Ingredients:
- 3.5 cups flour for the dough, plus more for dusting the table
- 1 egg
- 250 ml kefir
- 0.3 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
Dough for dumplings on kefir. Step by step recipe with photo
We take a large container in which we will knead the dough for dumplings on kefir, and drive one egg into it. Immediately add a third teaspoon of salt and one teaspoon of sugar to the egg.
Whisk the egg with a whisk or just a fork. Add a glass of kefir (250 ml). If you have less yogurt than required for the recipe, you can safely supplement its amount with plain water. But still adhere to the rule that kefir should be more than half the required volume.
Add flour to the bowl. First, add two glasses and stir the dough with a spoon.
Then add the remaining flour in small portions (half a glass each) and continue to knead the dough for dumplings.
In the end, we transfer the dough to a clean table sprinkled with flour and knead the dough with our hands. If the dough sticks to the table, add a little flour (1-2 tablespoons) and continue to knead it until smooth and elastic. According to my calculations, the dough for dumplings on kefir has to be intensively kneaded for about 3-5 minutes.
But that's not all. In order for the dough to be ideally prepared for the process of making dumplings, it should rest for about 15 minutes. We put the dough for dumplings on kefir in a bag or wrap it with cling film to prevent drying and winding, leave it at room temperature for 15 minutes. During this time, you can have time to prepare the filling for dumplings.
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