Steamed Colored Khinkali - An Original Recipe

Kitchen appliances and utensils: double boiler or large pan with a large colander and lid, knife, deep bowl, cutting board.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Cooking Stuffing

1. In a deep bowl, spread 500 g of minced meat. You can use any mincemeat, you can cook it yourself or buy it ready. We recommend doing it yourself, taking the same parts of the pulp of pork and beef. This will make ready-made steamed khinkali juicy.
   
2. To the minced meat, add salt, pepper to taste, a teaspoon of hops-suneli. Grind a bunch of green cilantro and also add to the stuffing.
   
3. We clean the two onions, rinse them, cut into any pieces. Peel 4 cloves of garlic. Send the onion and garlic to a blender, chop finely. Add the resulting mass to the stuffing, knead thoroughly with your hands. We leave the ready-made stuffing to rest for 15 minutes, and at this time we will take up the test.
   

Cooking ordinary dough

Sift 350 g of flour, send it into a deep bowl, pour a glass (230 ml) of cold water. Knead the dough, cover, let rest for a few minutes.

Cooking colored dough

1. Now prepare the colored dough. We wash 150 g of spinach, chop, send it to a blender, add 150 ml of water, grind very finely. Pass the resulting mass through a sieve, squeeze the juice.
   
2. Pour the sifted flour into a deep bowl, add salt and green water, knead the dough. The amount of flour for each will be different, but about 350 more will be needed.
   

We form and prepare khinkali

1. From a white dough we roll out a tourniquet about 25 cm long. From a green dough we roll out an oval layer, which will be the same length as the tourniquet.
   
2. We wrap the tourniquet into a layer of green dough, connect it well so that there is no air space. From the whole dough, cut into pieces about 1.5 cm wide.
   
3. Then we roll these pieces into a cake, spread the minced meat in the middle, connect it to form a bag. We repeat this procedure with all the dough and minced meat. How to do it right, look at the photo.
   
4. Lubricate the bowl of the double boiler with vegetable oil, spread the khinkali. Cover and cook for 25 minutes. Instead of a double boiler, you can use a slow cooker, which has the function of a double boiler or an ordinary deep pan and a large colander. In the latter case, it is necessary to pour water into the pan so that the colander does not touch it. Lubricate the colander with vegetable oil, put the khinkali, cover with a lid and cook for 25 minutes. Then put it on a serving plate and serve. Additionally, you can serve garlic sour cream or tomato sauce. And chopped greens can serve as decoration.
   

Video recipe

Now you know how to cook colorful khinkali bags a couple. If you don’t have enough of the above information and want to watch the cooking process, watch this video. You will learn how to make minced meat, how to properly form dough bags.