How to cook in a slow cooker
Like any home appliance, a multicooker requires special attention even during the simplest cooking of ravioli.
- Do not miss even the most minor steps of the recipe, do everything in turn.
- Pay attention to proportions. If you do not need 50 pieces of dumplings, then the amount of other ingredients should be reduced based on the required volumes.
- Do not defrost products before boiling dumplings in a slow cooker, as this may cause them to stick together.
- If you want to speed up the process, you can pour already boiling water into the multicooker bowl so that cooking starts faster.
A slow cooker greatly facilitates an already simple recipe; you will not need many different products, free time or special skills. Moreover, you can easily go about your business while the appliance is working, because the water will not “run away”, and the sound signal will not let you forget about the upcoming lunch.
Homemade dumplings as in the photo
If you do not want to feed your family with semi-finished products, then it's time to learn how to cook homemade dishes. Dough for dumplings in a slow cooker does not work, but it is quite possible to cook them in this unit. How and how much time to cook dumplings, we will analyze in the recipe below.
You will need:
- wheat flour - 500 g;
- water for the test - 200 ml;
- large eggs - 2 pieces;
- olive or sunflower oil - 1 tablespoon;
- salt - half a teaspoon;
- low-fat pork - 500 g;
- onions - 2 pcs.;
- beef - 500 g;
- ground pepper - to taste;
- filling water - 200 ml.
Cooking
- Pour all the flour onto the table, create a depression.
- Pour salted water, eggs and butter into it.
- Knead a uniform, elastic, soft dough.
- Knead the dough so that it can be rolled thin enough.
- Wrap it with cling film, a cotton towel, leave for 20 minutes.
- Divide the dough into three pieces. Twist the long tubes from each piece.
- Peel and rinse the bulbs.
- Cut the meat, make minced meat.
- Mix meat, onion, salt, pepper, add water.
- Make dumplings.
- In the "Soup" mode, boil one and a half liters of water.
- Salt the water for cooking, throw the dumplings into it, mix.
- In the "Cooking" mode, cook the dish for 15 minutes.
Add a little butter to the finished products, sprinkle with chopped herbs. Mayonnaise, soy sauce, mustard or sour cream will be an excellent sauce for lush homemade dumplings. For those who like spicy food, a dressing of black, red pepper and paprika is suitable. A very interesting taste is attached to a spicy sauce, for which you need to mix Dor Blue cheese, sour cream and dill.
Cooking store dumplings in a slow cooker is no different, be sure to cook them without defrosting, you can not change the mode. It will not be superfluous to mix the dumplings 7 minutes after the start of cooking. Remember that the main signal about the readiness of a dish is popped dumplings.
Original recipes for dumplings in a slow cooker
European
In different regions of the world dumplings are known and loved, everywhere there are their own characteristics and cooking secrets.Do you know how to cook European-style dumplings in a slow cooker? In the Panasonic multicooker, they turn out to be especially tender in the Steaming mode.
You will need:
- chicken egg - 1 piece;
- flour - 500 g;
- butter - 1 tablespoon;
- pork - 300 g;
- beef - 300 g;
- onions - 300 g;
- salt, ground pepper - to taste.
Cooking
- Rinse and dry the meat.
- Rinse and peel the onions.
- Cut everything into medium sized pieces.
- Pass the onion along with the meat through the meat grinder, season.
- Heat water, slowly introduce flour, egg into it.
- Knead the cool dough.
- Leave the dough for 30 minutes under a towel.
- Pour water into the multicooker bowl, boil.
- Dip the dumplings greased with butter in boiling water.
- Cook for 20 minutes in steaming mode.
For the convenience of sculpting, you can use a special form of dumplings. On it lay half the rolled dough, then the filling, and cover with the rest of the dough. Dough must be sprinkled with flour and rolled with a rolling pin, after which the dumplings themselves will fall out of the special holes.
According to the same recipe, European dumplings can be easily prepared by those who have a pressure cooker at home, the steam makes the dumplings stronger, they will not be watery, will not fall apart in the water and will surely be enjoyed by those who love al dente food.
Fried
For those who still love a brighter taste and crisp, fried dumplings in the Redmond multicook are suitable. Unlike a pressure cooker, a slow cooker allows not only cooking, but baking and stewing dumplings. And when fried, they turn out quite different from those on the stove, less greasy and more juicy.
You will need:
- frozen dumplings - 500 g;
- sour cream - 3 tablespoons;
- vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons;
- hot water - 50 ml;
- spices and salt to taste.
Cooking
- Add vegetable oil to the bowl, turn on the “Baking” mode.
- Add dumplings in 5 minutes.
- Close the cover.
- Combine hot water, sour cream and spices.
- After 20 minutes, turn the dumplings over.
- Pour the sauce over the dish, continue cooking for 15 minutes, but do not close the lid.
When serving fried dumplings to the table, sprinkle them with herbs. For a more interesting taste, try frying onions, mushrooms or bacon with them.
With grits and mushrooms
Dumplings with mushrooms have a completely different taste and aroma; they are also called kundyumy. This dish is suitable for fasting. Not only the filling without meat is unusual, but the cooking itself. The closest option to the village oven is baking and simmering in the Polaris multicooker.
You will need:
- flour - 600 g;
- water - 250 ml;
- sunflower oil for dough - 5 tablespoons;
- rice or buckwheat groats - 150 g;
- onions - 2 pieces;
- dry porcini mushrooms - 10 g;
- sunflower oil for mushrooms - 2 tablespoons;
- water for a decoction - 1 l;
- black pepper peas - 4 pieces;
- greens - a small bunch;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- bay leaf - 2 pieces;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Cooking
- Rinse the mushrooms, pour water for one hour, they will become softer.
- Pour boiling water in a bowl with sunflower oil, sift flour there.
- Knead the dough and form a ball.
- Cover with dishes for half an hour.
- Pour water into the multicooker bowl, put the mushrooms, squeeze the garlic, pepper, add the greens and bay leaf.
- Cook 10 minutes of broth in the "Soup" mode.
- After 8 minutes, add salt.
- Strain the broth.
- Rinse the cereal, pour a glass of water, salt.
- Cook for half an hour in Porridge mode.
- Peel the onion, chop it together with the mushrooms.
- Set aside the cereal, pour the oil into the bowl.
- For 5 minutes, fry the mushrooms with onions in the "Frying" mode.
- Add buckwheat or rice, season with spices.
- Roll thin dough, add the filling, form envelopes.
- In the “Baking” mode with the addition of oil, cook dumplings for 20 minutes.
- Pour the dish with the resulting hot broth and leave for half an hour in the "Stew" mode.
Steamed with sour cream and a salad of fresh vegetables, this dish will become a favorite of all family feasts. The aroma of mushrooms will fill your home for a long time.
Not only the recipes of dumplings in the multicooker affect the final result, the products are also very important. For a more delicate dish, try using minced duck. Despite the rigidity of the meat itself, prolonged heat treatment allows just such stuffing to make dumplings airy and melting in the mouth.
Do not deny yourself the pleasure, try, invent. Add garlic from the press to the butter, serve dumplings with vinegar, knead the stuffing from minced meat and vegetables, sprinkle the minced meat with chili pepper, be original!
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