What should you add to the water when cooking dumplings so that they are tasty and don't overcook
The taste of dumplings depends on the correct preparation of the dough.
It is also better to take boiled water and immediately add a couple of teaspoons of salt to it.
And immediately after the water boils, you should add peppercorns, bay leaf and one clove.
To prevent the dumplings from sticking together, add a few drops of oil to the water.
Dough ingredients:
- low-fat kefir - 200 ml;
- chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- flour - 600 grams;
- baking soda - 1 teaspoon.
Filling:
- minced meat - 0.5 kg;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- dried dill;
- garlic;
- bay leaves;
- black pepper;
- kitchen salt.
Preparation:
Beat the egg with salt and add to warm kefir.
Add baking soda and mix thoroughly.
After ten minutes, add the sifted flour. Add dried dill and knead an elastic dough.
Let the dough sit for a while.
Chop the onion and add it to the mince along with the spices. Put the bay leaf in 50 ml of water for twenty minutes and pour this water into the mince.
The dough should be mixed again, and then rolled out and shaped into dumplings.
Cook the dumplings in boiling water for five minutes.
