Contrary to popular belief, onions are not at all evil and spicy, but a very juicy and tasty vegetable.
It is used in various dishes and even as a filling for dumplings.
In combination with other ingredients, onions work wonders and allow you to cook unusually tasty dishes.
Dumplings with onions - general principles of preparation
The dough for dumplings used ordinary unleavened. It can be prepared in water, milk, whey, or a mixture of these ingredients. Sometimes an egg or oil is added. Flour is mainly used wheat. The dough can be made in the usual way or choux.
For the filling, you can use onions or green onions. It all depends on the recipe. If necessary, onions are fried or poured with boiling water.
What else is added to onion forcemeat:
• cottage cheese;
• potatoes;
• fat;
• eggs;
• mushrooms;
• meat products.
The ingredients may be raw or pre-processed. The addition of various spices, herbs, aromatic seasonings to the filling is welcome.
Dumplings are most often sculpted manually or using a special device. Product size can be any. But you need to remember that large dumplings will boil for a long time and can boil. For the same reason, you do not need to throw many products into the pan at once.
Recipe 1: Dumplings with cottage cheese and green onions
One of the most delicious options for dumplings with cottage cheese and green onions. The dish is very tasty, insanely aromatic and has a lot of fans.
Ingredients
• 1 glass of water;
• 450 grams of flour;
• 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• 2-3 tablespoons butter;
• salt;
• 500 grams of cottage cheese;
• 1 egg;
• 1 bunch of onions.
Cooking
1. Dissolve salt in water, pour flour and add vegetable oil during kneading. You can put an egg, but in this case you have to add a little more flour. We remove the dough to lie down, cover it with something.
2. The filling is prepared very quickly. Grind cottage cheese with egg and salt, add chopped onion. It can be put and more than indicated in the recipe. Done! If the cottage cheese is suddenly dry, then you can add another egg or a spoonful of sour cream so that the filling does not crumble.
3. We take out the dough, put the stuffing and sculpted dumplings next to it.
4. Cook for a minute after boiling, take out with a slotted spoon and generously grease with butter.
Recipe 2: Dumplings with Onion and Egg
The recipe for Ukrainian dumplings with onions and eggs, which differ in a very juicy and aromatic filling. Wonderful taste of minced meat gives milk sauce.
Ingredients
• 200 ml of water;
• 0.5 kg of flour;
• 1 egg;
• salt.
For filling:
• 0.5 kg of onions;
• 3 eggs;
• 100 ml of oil;
• 1 spoon of flour;
• 100 ml of milk;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Mixed ordinary fresh dough from the above ingredients. Add a pinch of salt. We remove the dough to lie down in the bag while we are doing the stuffing.
2. Eggs are simply boiled, then cut into cubes.
3. Onions, too, cut into cubes and fry in a pan with prescription oil, leaving a spoon for the sauce.
4. In another skillet, heat the remaining oil and fry a spoonful of flour, add milk and heat the sauce until thickened.
5. Transfer the sauce to the fried onions, add spices and turn off. Cool and lay eggs. The filling is ready.
6. The dough should be well-laid by this time. We get it and form ordinary dumplings in the form of crescents.
7. Boil for two minutes after surfacing in boiling and salted water. If the onion is fried poorly, and it crunches a little, then you can increase the cooking time.
8. Such dumplings with sour cream are served, fried onions are not offered to them.
Recipe 3: Traditional Dumplings with Potatoes and Onions
The recipe for all known dumplings with potatoes and onions, which many housewives love and make. We’ll make choux dough for them.
Ingredients
• egg;
• salt;
• 2 tablespoons of oil;
• 1 cup boiling water;
• 3 cups flour.
For filling:
• 0.7 kg of potatoes;
• 2 onions;
• spices and any oil.
Cooking
1. Cut peeled potato tubers and boil until soft. Salt at the end.
2. Cut the onion into small cubes and fry with any oil.
3. Make mashed potatoes, put the fried onions in it, stir and send to cool.
4. Add a pinch of salt and vegetable oil to boiling water, pour a glass of flour and quickly stir. Turn off.
5. Enter the rest of the flour and egg, stir it by hand already, since the mass will no longer be hot. Leave the dough to cool completely and let lie for about 15 minutes.
6. We make ordinary dumplings with potatoes, boil for 2-3 minutes.
7. Take out in a bowl. Served such dumplings with onions, passer in oil.
Recipe 4: Cheese Dumplings with Cottage Cheese and Green Onion
The recipe for very interesting dumplings with cottage cheese and green onions. For a special taste, cheese is added to them. According to the recipe, Russian cheese is used. But this is not the rule and you can even take processed cheese in foil. Cook the dough in milk.
Ingredients
• half a pound of cottage cheese;
• 0.15 kg of cheese;
• 50 grams of green onions;
• salt;
• flour;
• 200 ml of milk;
• eggs 3 pieces.
Cooking
1. Mix the egg with a small pinch of salt, pour in water and prescription milk. At the end, pour the flour and make an ordinary dough. Flour will take about half a kilogram.
2. Mix the cottage cheese with grated cheese and salt, add the remaining eggs to the filling and rub everything well. Lumps should not be. If the cottage cheese is dry enough, then it is better to grind it in advance, before combining with the rest of the ingredients.
3. We make ordinary dumplings, cook for a minute after active boiling and take out. Grease with butter, you can sprinkle with grated cheese and dill.
Recipe 5: Aromatic Dumplings with Onions and Mushrooms
For fragrant dumplings with onions, we will use ordinary champignons. If desired, you can take any mushrooms. But when using forest mushrooms, they must first be boiled in salt water. We prepare any dough based on a glass of liquid.
Ingredients
• 4 onion heads;
• 0.4 kg of champignons;
• 50 ml of oil;
• 0.5 bunch of dill;
• clove of garlic.
Cooking
1. Rinse mushrooms, if necessary, remove damage. If the gills of the mushrooms are dark, then cut off.
2. Cut the mushrooms into cubes. Spread in a pan with butter. We simmer for 10 minutes under the lid in our juice, then open and evaporate all the liquid.
3. As soon as there is no moisture in the pan, you can add onion, chopped into small cubes, and fry until tender.
4. Minced meat, turn off and cool.
5. Add dill with garlic and you can make dumplings.
6. Products with mushrooms are cooked for only 3 minutes after boiling, since the filling is already ready for use. Serve mushroom dumplings with different sauces, herbs or just sour cream.
Recipe 6: Dumplings with Raw Potatoes and Onions
For dumplings with potatoes and onions, this recipe does not need to be mashed in advance. The root crop is laid in its raw form, which makes the dish unusual, but very tasty.
Ingredients
• 4 potatoes;
• 3 onions;
• 2 cups of flour;
• 0.5 cups of milk;
• 1 egg;
• 50 ml of water;
• salt pepper.
Cooking
1. Combine milk with prescription water, salt and break an egg to them. Shake well and add the flour. We make a cool dough and send it to rest.
2. Cut the potatoes into tiny cubes or use a grater.
3. Peel the onions and also chop finely, pour boiling water over the bays and after 7 minutes we recline them in a colander.
4. Mix onion with potatoes, salt, you can pepper and the filling is ready!
5. We take out the dough which has lain and become elastic, we fashion dumplings. We pay special attention to the edge joining.
6. We cook the formed products 14-15 minutes after the mass ascent. We do not give active seething. These same dumplings can be steamed, which will not allow them to boil.
Recipe 7: Potato Dumplings with Cottage Cheese and Chives
Mixing potatoes and cottage cheese in toppings for dumplings is common. This stuffing has a very pleasant taste and a light aroma of green onions. You can make any dough for this filling.
Ingredients
• 0.25 kg of potatoes;
• 0.25 kg of cottage cheese;
• 1 onion;
• spices;
• 50 grams of oil;
• 1 bunch of green onions.
Cooking
1. Cook the jacket potatoes, cool and peel. Rub on a coarse grater.
2. Fry the onion. We send to the stuffing.
3. Add the grated cottage cheese and green onions, stir.
4. Put salt and pepper in the minced meat. You can add any seasonings.
5. We make small dumplings from any unleavened dough and cooked minced meat.
6. Run in boiling water and cook for three minutes after the massive ascent of products.
7. We get out, grease with oil, sprinkle with herbs. Can be served with sour cream or with sautéed onions.
Recipe 8: Dumplings with Onions and Meat
For these dumplings with onions you need any minced meat or chicken, you can take the mixture. We prepare fresh dough according to any of our recipes or in our own way. This amount of filling will take approximately 700 grams.
Ingredients
• 4 medium onion heads;
• salt pepper;
• minced meat 0.4 kg;
• some oil;
• clove (may be more) of garlic.
Cooking
1. Dice the onion, do not be afraid of its quantity. The filling will be very juicy and tasty.
2. Put in a pan and fry for two minutes.
3. Add the minced meat and fry together for another five minutes. You can’t bring it to absolute readiness.
4. At the end we put spices, chopped garlic.
5. We make medium-sized dumplings from dough and cooked minced meat.
6. Throw in boiling water, boil until tender, it will take no more than five minutes.
Recipe 9: Granny's Dumplings with Potatoes and Onions
For cooking grandmother's dumplings with potatoes and onions, you will also need lard. You can take a piece of salted or smoked bacon, in any case, the filling is amazing.
Ingredients
• 2 onion heads;
• 0.6 kg of potatoes;
• 0.15 kg of fat;
• spices;
• any dough.
Cooking
1. Fry diced bacon. But not very, very little. We take out the pieces in a bowl, we leave the melted fat.
2. After the bacon, fry the chopped onion heads in the same pan.
3. Cook the mashed potatoes, knead and add lard with onions, try on salt. Season with spices and cool.
4. Form dumplings with potato filling.
5. Boil for 2 minutes in salted boiling water. You can then fry in a pan with oil and onions.
Dumplings with onions - useful tips and tricks
• If the onion is bitter, you can pre-beat it with boiling water or fry a little in a pan.
• Green onions will give the filling more taste and aroma if, after slicing, grind it with a pinch of salt until juice appears.
• Any stuffing for dumplings will be tastier if you add fat to it. Most often put butter, but you can also use lard.
• If you plan to fry or bake dumplings after boiling, then do not bring them to full readiness. It is necessary to preserve the shape of the products as much as possible and not allow them to boil.
