How to make dough for dumplings so that they do not boil and do not become stiff

Kitchen appliances and utensils: kettle, deep bowl, knife, sieve, glass of 250 g, deep plate, tablespoon and teaspoon, fork, kitchen towel.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. Drive one chicken egg into a deep plate, add ½ tsp to it. salt and beat well with a fork. Then pour in a plate 3 tbsp. l vegetable oil and also whisk.
   
2. Using a sieve, sift 3 cups of wheat flour into a deep bowl, make a small hole in the center and pour the egg mixture into it. Mix the egg with flour well so that it does not boil in boiling water in the future. You can use a glass of any volume, the main thing is that you measure both flour and boiling water with one glass.
   
3. In a teapot, boil 1 cup of water and immediately pour it into flour, while quickly mixing all the ingredients with a spoon. While the dough is still hot from boiling water, mix it with a spoon, when it cools down a little and thickens, start kneading with your hands until a uniform smooth lump.
   
4. Then remove the dough from the bowl and continue to knead it with your hands on the work surface. In this case, you do not need additional flour - an elastic custard dough does not stick to either the table or the hands. Place the kneaded dough in a bowl or leave on the table and cover with a kitchen towel for 10 minutes. After that, cut a small part of the whole dough, and put the rest back in a bowl and cover so that it does not dry out. Form a sausage from it and divide it into pieces to roll them out, to fill and mold delicious dumplings or dumplings.
   

This dough is ideal for freezing and is well stored. Dumplings or dumplings from it are very tasty, do not break and do not disintegrate during cooking. Even after freezing, the products retain their taste perfectly. Fillings for dumplings can be used in a wide variety - with potatoes and mushrooms, cabbage, cottage cheese, berries - as your soul desires.

Did you know? Choux pastry for dumplings is also used to prepare other dishes. Very successfully made from it are pasties or tortillas, which are made on a dry hot frying pan. Choux pastry is very soft and obedient, sculpting from it is a pleasure.

Video recipe

How to cook a successful choux pastry for delicious dumplings, and then divide it into pieces, you can look in more detail at the video.

When preparing traditional dumplings, not only their taste, but also their appearance is important. To cook truly high-quality, tasty and beautiful dumplings, use this simple recipe for choux pastry and your dish will surely work out. Having prepared dumplings or dumplings from such a test once, you will love it forever, because it is very easy to cook, and working with it does not cause any difficulties.

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