Dumplings recipe

List of ingredients : Dough: * Flour - 3,5 cup + (1,5 cup) * Water - 1 cup * Salt - 1 tsp * Egg - 1

 **Filling. Main base for both kinds:** 

• Farmer cheese - 500 gm.

• Egg - 1

   **Salty filling: +** 
  

• Salt - 1/4 tsp

• Fresh dill

   **Sweet filling +** 
  

• Vanilla sugar - 1/2 pack

• Sugar - 1/2 tbsp

   **Additional** 
  

• Butter - little piece

• Dill for salty dumplings

• Sour cream or sugar for sweet dumplings

Video instruction is here: https://youtu.be/bwkoD1wI4GI

• Sift 3,5 cups of all purpose flour into a deep bowl.

• Add 1 tsp of salt + 1 cup of water and 1 egg.

• Mix all with a spoon and make a dough. Massage it. You may need to add a little bit more of flour. Dough should not be sticking to your hands.

• Wrap it with a plastic wrap or cover with a clean kitchen towel and let it rest for 30 minutes.

• Combine all of the farmer cheese with 1 egg and mix it well. That is the main base for both kind of dumplings.

• Divide this cheese into 2 equal parts.

• For salty filling we add 1/4 tsp of salt and some chopped dill. Mix it all together.

• For sweet dumplings. Combine cheese with 1/2 pack of vanilla sugar and 1/2 tbsp of sugar.

• Get your dough again - unwrap it. Sift some flour on top of dough and massage it a bit.

• Divide it into 2 halves.

• Roll one part out.

• Prepare a tray or some board and cover it with a little bit of flour. We will be placing dumplings on it.

• With the help of glass make dough rounds. And fill them with your cheese. Make a dumpling.

• When you place them on board - make sure dumplings don't tough each other.

   **Cooking steps for sweet and salty dumplings** 
  

• Boil water and salt it.

• Place dumplings in it one by one.

• With the help of spoon carefully move dumplings to make sure they did not stick to the bottom.

• When all of the dumplings are floating - take one out and try if it's ready. Usually they are.

• Get all of the dumplings into the deep bowl. And place a little piece of butter on top. Mix so all dumplings would be greased with it.

• Add some dill on top of salty dumplings.

• Sweet dumplings you may serve with sour cream or little bit of sugar on top.

   **Tips on freezing dumplings.** 
  

• If you made a lot of dumplings you may want to freeze them.

• As you made them, with a tray place them into a freezer. Wait until they get frozen. Replace them into the food container and put them back in a freezer until you want to cook them.

• Cooking process of frozen dumplings is the same as just made. You don't need to wait until they get unfrozen.

bon appetit