How to make dumplings beautifully

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the dough and mashed potatoes to your liking, according to your favorite recipes. Sift the flour to dust the table. It is most convenient to make beautiful dumplings when the dough for them is rolled out quite thinly, and the juicy mugs are cut out with a mold (or skillfully rolled out with a rolling pin). A small rolling pin about 1.5-2 cm in diameter is convenient here.

2. Step 2:

   

   To make dumplings, made in a simple way, turned out beautiful, try to make their inner part not sprinkled with flour. That is, where you will blind, they should be without flour. Sculpt with moderate force, evenly pressing the edges to each other, do not flatten the edge much and do not pull the dumpling in different directions. On the contrary, try to keep its rounded shape to the maximum.

3. Step 3:

   

   Make sure that the dumpling does not come apart. If there are such moments in the modeling process, then the dumpling will definitely come apart when cooking.

4. Step 4:

   

   Here is such a smooth classic dumpling turns out. This form is ideal for a delicate filling - mashed potatoes, cottage cheese, cheese with herbs, raspberries.

5. Step 5:

   

   Now let's make dumplings with a pigtail, fashionable. The pigtail in them is slightly denser than the rest of the dough, so this molding is good for fillings like mushrooms, stewed cabbage, cherries and strawberries.

7. Step 6:

   

   Pinch the edges of the dumpling in the usual way.

8. Step 7:

   

   Make sure that the dumpling does not fall apart.

9. Step 8:

   

   Now, starting from the right edge, turn up the edge, slightly flattening the seam behind the turn.

10. Step 9:

    

    Repeat pinching and flattening. There will be a tail on the edge - stick it carefully from below.

11. Step 10:

    

    These are the beauties! It remains to cook and help yourself.