Tasty dumplings with potatoes and aromatic fried onions

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• kitchen stove;
• pan;
• a frying pan;
• whisk or blender;
• deep bowl;
• sieve;
• a cup;
• kitchen scales;
• tablespoon;
• tea spoon;
• disposable package;
• rolling pin.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Dough

1. First you need to cook the dough. To do this, drive one chilled egg into a deep bowl, add 1 tsp to it. salt and beat with a whisk or fork until a light foam forms. To save time and effort, you can use a blender with a nozzle for whipping.
   
2. Pour 200 ml of boiled warm water into the egg with a thin stream, mix.
   
3. Sift 450 g of wheat flour to the water with the egg through a sieve in several stages, stirring constantly to prevent lumps from forming.
   
4. Sprinkle a little flour onto the tabletop and lay the dough on the table to knead it with your hands. Kneading time varies between 5-7 minutes.
   
5. Next, put the dough in a disposable bag and let it “rest” at room temperature for 30 minutes. At this time, you can begin to prepare the filling.
   

Filling

1. Peel, wash, and chop the potatoes so that they are 450 g when peeled. Put it in a pan, fill it with water, and set it on a cooker. After the potatoes boil, add salt to taste and cook until tender.
   
2. Peel and then chop 200 g of onions. Pour 1.5 tbsp into the pan. l vegetable oil and heat a little, then sprinkle onion and fry until golden brown.
   
3. When the onion becomes golden, add another 40 g of butter to it, mix, let the butter melt, and then remove the pan from the heat.
   
4. Drain all the water from the pot in which the potatoes were cooked, and grind the potatoes with a blender or crush.
   
5. Add the fried onions to the mashed potatoes, then beat 1 raw egg and mix the filling.
   

Vareniki

1. Now you can start sculpting dumplings. Sprinkle a little tabletop with flour, cut a small one from a large piece of dough and begin to roll it, and then use a glass or cup to cut out circles for future dumplings.
   
2. In the prepared circles, put the onion and potato filling, lay it so that the dough can be properly connected.
   
3. Then just blind the dumpling.
   
4. Put the dumplings on a hard surface sprinkled with flour.
   
5. Pour 1.5 liters of water into a wide saucepan and set it to boil. When the water boils, add 10 pcs. peppercorns, 2 pcs. bay leaf and 1 tsp. salt, then lay the dumplings. You need to cook them for 3-4 minutes over medium heat.
   
6. Remove the dumplings into the plate with a slotted spoon and pour over melted butter.
   
7. The dish is ready, and it can be served at the table. Dumplings go well with sour cream and herbs.
   

Video recipe

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