Vareniki is a popular and favorite dish not only in Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, but also in many foreign countries. Cooking them is not very difficult. There are many options for the filling, as well as the test. Fast and tasty are considered lazy.

How to cook lazy potato dumplings?

Even a child can cook this dish. It takes much less time than when sculpting standard, familiar dumplings. The dough is used as for dumplings. The main difference and feature is that the products (also the filling) must be put all at once into the dough. It uses onions, and mushrooms, and fresh herbs. They are eaten in a separate dish or with the addition of sour cream, special purchased or homemade sauce. Cooking can be done in a pan, in a slow cooker or microwave.

Popular recipes

With potatoes and mushrooms

Ingredients:

  • potatoes;
  • fresh, canned or frozen mushrooms (any, especially good ceps, honey mushrooms, chanterelles, champignons or oyster mushrooms);
  • salt;
  • onion;
  • garlic and spices to taste and desire;
  • premium wheat flour;
  • milk, kefir or homemade natural yogurt;
  • chicken eggs;
  • olive, sesame or other healthy oil with vitamins and minerals.

The tubers should be pre-boiled and mashed. In a bowl, combine flour, eggs, dairy product and salt. Put on a table sprinkled with flour and roll out a pancake. Make small circles out of it. Cooking is recommended for no more than 5-6 minutes. Get out with a slotted spoon. Add a little oil and chopped mushrooms, onions, garlic and spices to the pan (for aroma and taste). Fry all foods until golden brown. Serve with fried mixture.Also, in accordance with other recipes, mushrooms can be cooked with lard or fresh herbs. You can add spices and seasoning suitable for the filling.

With potatoes and herbs

Ingredients:

  • potatoes;
  • fresh herbs (dill, parsley, green onions);
  • flour;
  • milk, kefir or yogurt;
  • chicken eggs;
  • salt.

The tubers should be pre-boiled and mashed. In a bowl, combine flour, eggs, dairy product and salt. Mix everything thoroughly and add mashed potatoes. Re-mix the mixture. Put on a table sprinkled with flour and roll out a pancake. Make small circles out of it. Cooking is recommended for no more than 5-6 minutes. Get out with a slotted spoon. Fresh greens need to be washed and chopped. Ready-made dumplings are served with it. Chefs are also advised to add natural oils containing vitamins and minerals. It can be olive, sesame or otherwise. You can use them when serving or frying.

With potatoes and bacon

Ingredients:

  • potato tubers;
  • fat;
  • onion;
  • flour;
  • salt;
  • water (or milk, kefir, natural yogurt);
  • chicken eggs.

Boil the potatoes and mash in the form of mashed potatoes, add milk or water, salt, flour. Mix everything thoroughly and put on the table. Roll pancake and cut circles. It is recommended to cook them for 5-6 minutes. Fat should be taken with soft and delicate skin, a meat layer. It must be cut into cubes and fry in vegetable or olive oil with onions. Serve the dumplings with the fried mixture. In accordance with another recipe, fried onions can be served separately, and add lard immediately to the dough. So it will become fragrant and piquant. You can add spices and seasoning suitable for the filling.

With potatoes and minced meat

Ingredients:

  • potatoes;
  • minced meat (optional, you can mix pork and beef);
  • chicken eggs;
  • flour;
  • salt;
  • water (or milk, kefir, yogurt without additives).

At the very beginning, you need to put the tubers to cook. Then mix the flour, water, eggs and salt in a bowl. Mash hot boiled tubers and add it to the dough. Fry the minced meat in a pan until golden brown (possible with onions, spices, garlic). Mix the mixture thoroughly and put on the table. Roll out the pancake and cut it into small circles. Bring water to a boil in a pan and throw cooked circles there. Cook for 5-6 minutes, and then remove with a slotted spoon. Serve with fried minced meat (always placed separately on dumplings, as it is not used for dough). You can add spices and seasoning suitable for the filling. Stuffing (meat or poultry) can be cooked with bacon.

Egg-free vegetarian

Ingredients:

  • fresh herbs (dill, parsley and green onions);
  • flour;
  • potatoes;
  • water;
  • salt.

In a deep bowl, thoroughly mix the flour, salt and water to a plastic, soft and uniform mass. Tubers should be peeled and washed, boiled and mashed. Add the potato base to the dough and mix again. Roll out small pancakes and cut circles out of them. There is no need to sculpt anything. Cook for 5-6 minutes over medium heat. It should be removed with a slotted spoon. Serve with olive oil (you can add spices or ground garlic to it).

Useful Tips

  1. it is recommended to use only the highest grades of durum wheat flour;
  2. as the filling, you can take any ingredients;
  3. the filling volume and the size of the dumplings themselves can be made any according to your desire (they can be small or large);
  4. optimal cooking time after boiling water for 5-6 minutes;
  5. it is allowed to add yogurt, yogurt, kefir or milk of any fat content to the mass;
  6. when cooking potato dumplings, potato starch should also be added.

Potato dumplings are very nutritious and satisfy hunger in minutes. With a filling of mushrooms, they become not only fragrant, but also not inferior to meat in energy value. You can cook them in several ways in a pan, slow cooker or microwave. They can be eaten with a diet, pregnant women, children.

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