Gourmet dumplings on the most tender dough with the addition of homemade mincemeat just melt in your mouth, forcing you to take another piece. Even Italian ravioli will not be able to compare with the taste of homemade mother's dumplings. Can we repeat the deeds of our parents and make the same dough for homemade dumplings?

Universal recipe

If you want to spend a minimum of time and effort on cooking, pay attention to the universal recipe. All its charm is that cooking takes only 15 minutes.

Ingredients:

  • egg;
  • a spoonful of salt;
  • 3 cups flour;
  • 10 ml of refined oil;
  • 200 ml of boiling water.

Stages of preparation:

  1. Beat the egg, pour salt, stir.
  2. Pour flour, pour vegetable oil.
  3. Pour boiling water, mix with a spoon.
  4. Knead the mass with your hands, add flour if necessary.

You can do without oil, but its addition will give a lot of airiness and elasticity.

Elastic dough for homemade dumplings

Are you afraid that the dumplings will fall apart while they cook? Pay attention to the elastic dough for homemade dumplings, which even after freezing will not fall apart.

Ingredients:

  • 500 grams of flour;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 200 ml of boiled water;
  • a pinch of salt.

Stages of execution:

  1. Sift the flour through a strainer to make a slide. Create a hole in the slide where we add eggs and salt.
  2. Mix thoroughly until a homogeneous mass is formed.
  3. Gradually pour water, while stirring the mixture. When it becomes difficult to knead with a whisk or a fork, we begin to do it with our hands. To make the dough flexible, keep an eye on the amount of water added. The exact volume of liquid depends on the type of flour and the size of the eggs; it will have to be calculated experimentally.
  4. Sprinkle the resulting mass with flour, cover with a towel, leave for half an hour. The elastic dough for dumplings is ready!

Tip. So that the dough does not stick to the table, kitchen utensils and rolling pin, it is enough just to sprinkle the work surface where it will be rolled out with flour.

A simple option on the water

Do not want to bother? A simple option on the water was created specifically for you.

Ingredients:

  • 5 glasses of wheat flour;
  • a glass of cold water;
  • egg;
  • a teaspoon of salt.

Stages of preparation:

  1. In a glass of cold water, pour a pinch of salt, mix thoroughly.
  2. In another bowl, beat the egg, add the egg mixture to water and salt. Stir thoroughly again.
  3. Sift 4 cups of flour to make the mass elastic. We make a slide out of it.
  4. In the hill we form a hole and fill in the egg mixture.
  5. Mix with a spatula until smooth. We finish the process of kneading the dough with your hands, gradually adding the remaining flour.
  6. After the mixture has reached the desired consistency, leave for half an hour. Done!

Tip. The recipe for dumplings on water is simple, but it has a drawback. The taste of the products may seem fresh. To avoid this, simply add your favorite spices to the dough.

How to make in a bread machine

The presence of a bread machine is an excellent occasion to cook homemade dumplings.

Before you begin, carefully read the instructions on how to make flour products in a bread machine and prepare the composition of the products:

  • egg;
  • 1.5 cups of water;
  • 10 ml of refined oil;
  • half a teaspoon of sugar;
  • a pinch of salt;
  • 500 grams of flour.

Stages of execution:

  1. Pour water into a breadmaker bowl, add sugar, salt, flour, oil.
  2. We click on the button “Dumplings dumplings / dumplings” and wait until the device finishes its work.
  3. When the mass is ready, the bread maker will give a signal. First, it is better to control the cooking and, if necessary, add flour.

The dough in the bread maker comes out elastic, airy, tender, which will not leave anyone indifferent. And most importantly - this is a very quick way to make homemade dumplings.

Tasty recipe:dough “like fluff” on kefir

Boiled with vegetable oil

The dough in boiling water with vegetable oil is prepared quickly enough. The recipe is similar to the traditional method, but eggs are not needed here, and the list of necessary products is very short.

Ingredients:

  • 150 ml of boiling water;
  • 500 grams of flour;
  • 10 ml of vegetable oil.

Stages of preparation:

  1. We mix the flour with sunflower oil, in the end we get a powdery mixture.
  2. Add boiling water a little, while stirring the composition. You need to mix thoroughly so that future dumplings turn out without lumps.
  3. Let cool a bit.
  4. We spread the mass on the table and continue to knead with our hands.
  5. If necessary, add flour. The dough is ready for rolling.

Tip. To give dumplings a peculiar flavor, you can add an olive analogue instead of sunflower oil.

Mineral dumplings dough

Surprisingly, mineral water is not only drunk, but also made from it incredible to the taste of the product. The dough for dumplings on a mineral water is always light, airy and soft due to gas bubbles in the water.

Ingredients:

  • 700 grams of wheat flour;
  • egg;
  • a glass of highly sparkling water;
  • 50 ml of sunflower oil (or 4 tablespoons);
  • salt and sugar to taste.

The more gases there will be in mineral water, the softer and airier the dumplings will turn out.

Stages of preparation:

  1. Add all liquid ingredients to the dish: egg, mineral water, sunflower oil. Mix thoroughly with added sugar and salt.
  2. Pour flour in one spoon with a slide. After each entered spoon, carefully mix the mixture.
  3. After the mass has become sufficiently elastic, put it on the table and knead it with your hands for 15 minutes. For many, the process will seem long, but it is necessary that all the ingredients adhere tightly to each other. So dumplings will not disintegrate during cooking.
  4. Cover the dough with cellophane or cloth, and let stand for 30 minutes.
  5. Everything is ready for rolling. Bon Appetit!

No eggs added

There is another recipe for a delicious dough without adding eggs, which many will like. The peculiarity of this recipe is that the dumplings are incredibly lush due to the addition of kefir.

Ingredients:

  • a glass of kefir;
  • 500 grams of flour;
  • salt to taste.

Stages of preparation:

  1. Add salt and flour to the bowl. Mix 2 ingredients thoroughly.
  2. Gradually add kefir, while constantly stirring the mass. In no case can you add flour to kefir, dumplings will turn out with lumps, which will be difficult to get rid of!
  3. Mix the dough with kefir thoroughly and for a long time to completely prevent the possibility of lumps.
  4. We form a small ball from the mass, wrap it with a film and place it in the refrigerator for an hour.
  5. We get the mass and proceed to rolling it.

The eggs act as a baking powder or component in the dough to add fluffiness to the finished dumplings. This ingredient is auxiliary, therefore its presence is not necessary, but the presence of the product will not spoil the taste of the dish.

There are many recipes for homemade dumplings, but not everyone will be right for you. It is best to try several cooking options and decide which of the above is the best dough for homemade dumplings. If you wish, you can even create your own recipe. The main thing is imagination and basic knowledge of how to knead the dough.

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