Not Just Salt: What You Should Always Add to Water Before Cooking Dumplings – Three Important Ingredients

14.03.2024 05:20

How to start cooking pelmeni? It would seem that there is a simple answer to this question: "Pour the semi-finished product into a pot of heating water."

Also, almost all cooks know that before starting to cook the product, the liquid must be salted and stirred.

However, few people know about the need to add three ingredients in advance.

The expert of the online publication Belnovosti in the field of cooking, cook, fourth-class baker Yulia Arkhipova listed the additives that should be in the water before dumplings.

What to add water before cooking dumplings

Poured clean liquid into a saucepan and put the dish on the stove? Don't rush to put the dumplings in the container!

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First, you need to add salt to the water and the following:

  • a couple of bay leaves;
  • a few black peppercorns;
  • onions.

Thanks to these additives, plain water will turn into a full-fledged broth. As a result, the taste of the finished dish will be much brighter.

Even the worst quality store-bought dumplings will become a real culinary masterpiece.

Earlier, gourmets were told how to fry dumplings correctly .

Kurchev Anton Author: Kurchev Anton Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Julia Arkhipova Expert: Julia ArkhipovaExpert / Belnovosti