If you have dough left after making dumplings, don’t be upset. From it you can cook a huge number of other dishes - light, tasty and healthy. Their preparation will not take much time, and they themselves will surely appeal to all households.
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If the hostess cooks dumplings at home, she often remains an extra dough. You need to use it as quickly as possible, otherwise the dough will dry out and nothing will be done from it. Do not store dumplings dough without a shell, be sure to wrap it in a bag or film and put in the refrigerator. And when there is time, remove it and slightly knead it with your hands. There are a lot of recipes for dumplings.
The simplest dishes
Quickly and simply noodles and bows are prepared from dumplings. For noodles, roll out the remaining dough in a thin layer and cut into narrow strips. The thinner and more elegant these strips come out, the better the noodles will look. Ready noodles are immediately added to chicken or meat broth, or laid out on a board to dry, and then put away for storage. Such noodles are much more useful, and most importantly tastier than the store.
Bows are also easy to prepare. The dough is rolled out and circles are cut out of it, as for dumplings. But you do not need to put the stuffing in the “bows” - each circle simply gathers in the “accordion” in the middle. Bows are cooked in salted water or broth, and served with butter, sugar or grated cheese. Such products can be frozen, like dumplings.
To make dumplings, roll the remains of the dumplings dough first into sausages, and then mash each sausage into a strip about 3-4 cm wide. These strips should be slightly thicker than dumplings. Let the dough dry, then cut each strip in width into short dumplings. Dumplings can be dried and stored like pasta, but it is better to use immediately. They are great for goulash and other meat dishes.
More sophisticated dishes
Known dumplings can be prepared from the remains of dumplings. Fillings are used from those that are at home - boiled potatoes, cottage cheese, mushrooms, sauerkraut, cherries. Dumplings can be made for the future - that is, freeze them in the freezer, then get out and cook when convenient.
A delicious dish for breakfast or dinner will be dumplings stuffed with dumplings. For cooking, you need to roll flat cakes of the same thickness as for dumplings, but larger in size. Thinly sliced sausage or ham, a little cheese is placed on one half of the tortilla, then everything is closed with the second half of the tortilla, as is done for making pasties. The dish is laid out in a pan with butter and fried a little to make the dough cooked, and the sausage and cheese warmed up.
Another great dish is dumplings roll. The filling for him can be chosen to taste. The dough is rolled out in a thin layer, best in the form of a large circle, smeared with sour cream or mayonnaise. On the dough layer, a filling is applied in an evenly thin layer - minced meat or minced meat mixed with finely chopped vegetables - tomatoes, carrots, peppers. Then, several small pieces of butter should be scattered over the entire surface. The roll is wrapped and laid out in a double boiler. The dish is cooked for 40-45 minutes, served with sour cream, ketchup, sauces.
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