Dumplings with tomatoes in a frying pan

How to make dumplings with tomatoes in a frying pan? Prepare all the necessary ingredients for cooking dumplings with vegetables. This is done in order not to be distracted later by getting something out of the refrigerator or from some shelf, everything you need will already be at hand and due to this a little time will be saved. So, let's get started.
Take a frying pan, pour in quite a bit of olive oil, about 0.5 teaspoons. You can also cook with vegetable oil, olive oil is just useful, that's why it is used. Using a silicone brush, spread the oil evenly over the bottom of the pan. Put the frying pan to warm up over medium heat. Then, when the pan is heated, put the dumplings (medium-sized) on the pan, turning down the heat a little. All the ingredients added later will also be fried on a slightly lower than average heat. I advise you not to use purchased dumplings, but homemade ones. So the dish will turn out much tastier, because it will definitely be made from high-quality ingredients and the minced meat in which it will definitely be juicy (when cooking dumplings, I add a little water to the minced meat). Or use a high-quality semi-finished product. In this recipe, this is very important! As a result, the dish will not turn out dry. So, fry the dumplings on both sides for 5 minutes. They should defrost and only slightly turn golden, do not fry them too much, so that the dough does not become dry and subsequently does not spoil the taste of the whole dish.
In order not to waste time in vain, while the dumplings are being fried, peel a small onion and cut it into small cubes. You can cut it into half rings or rings, but it will be better to cut it into cubes, since tomatoes will be cut that way. So after 5 minutes, put the chopped onion in the pan to the dumplings, pour in the remaining 0.5 teaspoons of oil and continue to fry the ingredients for another 2 minutes so that the onion only becomes transparent, but remains crispy. That's what I like most about this dish.
While the onion is frying, wash and cut the "fleshy" tomato into small cubes, but keep in mind that when frying tomatoes decrease in size, so do not flicker too much. As soon as you slice the tomatoes, immediately send them to the pan. Now continue to cook the dumplings for another 3 minutes, the tomatoes will give juice and due to this, the dumplings will not be fried, but stewed, so the dish will not turn out dry in the end.
At the end of cooking, add salt and ground black pepper, this is a classic option. Be careful with salt, as it is already present in the minced dumplings. You can add other spices, but this is already a risky business, since it is necessary to take into account that these spices are combined with all the ingredients. Stir the contents of the pan and serve immediately.
If everything is done correctly, then the dumplings turn out juicy without a dry fried crust and with a lot of stewed tomatoes and a crispy onion.

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Tomatoes in this recipe can be replaced with ketchup, tomatoes in their own juice or tomato paste. Choose the proportions to your taste.