Steamed dumplings on kefir with cottage cheese

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make steamed dumplings? You can start cooking even with the dough, even with the filling, it doesn't matter. Let's start with the test. Prepare the necessary ingredients. Take kefir with a fat content of 2.5% or higher. It should be at room temperature, so take it out of the refrigerator in advance.

2. Step 2:

   

   Sift the flour into a bowl.

3. Step 3:

   

   Make a recess in it and pour in room temperature kefir, yolk, add salt and soda.

4. Step 4:

   

   Knead a soft, slightly sticky dough, adding a little more flour if necessary. You can knead with your hands or with the help of a special kitchen machine. Cover the finished dough with a towel so that it does not get wet.

5. Step 5:

   

   Now let's prepare the filling. It is better to take cottage cheese not dry, without hard grains with a fat content of 5% or higher. The fatter the cottage cheese, the juicier and tastier the filling will turn out.

6. Step 6:

   

   Mix cottage cheese with yolk, sugar and vanilla sugar and mix, breaking up large lumps.

7. Step 7:

   

   If the curd mass turned out to be runny, pour 1 tablespoon of semolina into it and leave for 10 minutes.

9. Step 8:

   

   On a floured table, roll out the dough into a sausage and divide into 12-14 equal parts.

10. Step 9:

    

    Roll out each part into a small and not very thin circle. If you roll it out too thin, the dough is likely to break even at the stage of pinching the dumplings. Put 1 tablespoon of filling on a circle of dough and carefully pinch the edges.

11. Step 10:

    

    Shape all the other dumplings in the same way.

12. Step 11:

    

    Fill the pot with water for a quarter and place a mold with holes on top for steaming. If you have a slow cooker or a steamer, then it is better to cook, of course, in them. And if there is none of the above, it does not matter either. You can cook dumplings the old-fashioned way in a colander, sieve, or even pull a gauze folded in 3-4 layers over the pan and cook dumplings in it.

13. Step 12:

    

    When the water boils, lubricate the mold with vegetable oil and put a few dumplings at a distance from each other, as they will greatly increase in size.

14. Step 13:

    

    Cook the dumplings for 5-7 minutes under the lid or a little longer, depending on the thickness of the dough.

15. Step 14:

    

    Put the finished dumplings in a bowl with butter and mix. Boil the remaining batches of dumplings, greasing the mold with vegetable oil each time, and mixing the finished dumplings with butter so that they do not stick together. Bon appetit!