Sweet and salty dumplings (with farmer cheese)

 **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.

bon appetit