Potato dumplings with potatoes and bacon

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make dumplings with potatoes and bacon? First prepare the dough, it will be on boiling water. How to make dough? Boil water, pour it into a bowl, add salt, pour vegetable oil. Add the sifted flour and knead a fairly tight smooth dough: first stir with a spoon, and then with your hands, on a table sprinkled with flour. Form a ball, wrap it in a film and set aside to rest while the filling is being prepared.

2. Step 2:

   

   Prepare the filling. How to make the filling? Wash the potatoes well, peel and grate on a coarse grater. Peel and chop the onion. Cut the fresh bacon into small cubes.

3. Step 3:

   

   Mix all the ingredients for the filling in a bowl, add salt to taste. Instead of garlic powder, you can take 3-4 cloves of fresh garlic and push it through the press.

4. Step 4:

   

   Form a sausage from the dough and divide it into small equal pieces with a knife. They will turn out 20-30 pieces, depending on the size of the dumplings. Sprinkle them with flour.

6. Step 5:

   

   Roll out the dough pieces into tortillas with a rolling pin. Put a small amount of filling on them. Blind the dumplings in the classic way: fold in half, pinch the edges as on dumplings and fasten the two ends together with a circle.

7. Step 6:

   

   In this way, make dumplings from the whole dough.

8. Step 7:

   

   Put a saucepan with a lot of water on the fire. When the water boils, add salt to it and lay the first batch of dumplings. Stir and cook them over low heat after surfacing for 5 minutes. You can also add dry seasonings (for example, Italian herbs) or bay leaf to the water.

9. Step 8:

   

   Remove the finished dumplings with a slotted spoon into a plate and brush with butter. Cook the next batch. It is better to cook in small batches so that the dumplings float freely in the pan, then they will not stick together and will not stick to the bottom. Also, the dumplings can be thrown into a colander and let them cool down a little so that they do not stick together.