Soup with cheese dumplings

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the necessary ingredients for the soup. Peel potatoes and carrots from the skin, Bulgarian pepper - from seeds and stalks. If desired, you can add onions to the soup (step 6).

2. Step 2:

   

   Cut the bell pepper into small cubes.

3. Step 3:

   

   Cut carrots into strips or grate on a coarse grater.

4. Step 4:

   

   Cut potatoes into medium cubes.

5. Step 5:

   

   Boil water in a saucepan. Lay out the potatoes. Cook over medium heat for 15 minutes.

6. Step 6:

   

   Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan. Put the carrots and bell peppers and fry together, stirring, for about 5 minutes. If desired, you can add a chopped onion to the roast. In this case, first you need to fry the onion and carrot for 5 minutes until the onion is transparent and only then add the bell pepper and simmer all together for another 4-5 minutes.

7. Step 7:

   

   Put the fried vegetables in a saucepan with soup and stir. Cook over medium heat for another 5-7 minutes. It is better not to add salt and pepper before adding dumplings.

8. Step 8:

   

   While the vegetables are cooking, prepare the cheese dumplings. Butter should be washed at room temperature, so take it out of the refrigerator in advance (1-2 hours) and cut it into cubes to melt faster.

9. Step 9:

   

   Grate the cheese on a fine grater. The finer the cheese is grated, the more pliable the dough will be and the softer the finished dumplings.

11. Step 10:

    

    Add an egg to the cheese, add turmeric, paprika, salt and ground pepper. Sprinkle the salt carefully, having previously tasted the cheese. If the cheese is already salty, then you do not need to salt the mixture additionally. Mix the cheese with the egg and spices.

12. Step 11:

    

    Add soft butter at room temperature. Mix everything again.

13. Step 12:

    

    Add flour and knead a soft, slightly sticky dough. If the dough turns out to be runny, add a little more flour.

14. Step 13:

    

    Sprinkle flour on the work surface, lay out the dough and roll out a thin sausage about the thickness of a pencil.

15. Step 14:

    

    Cut the resulting sausage into small pieces and give them a round shape with your hands.

16. Step 15:

    

    Add the dumplings to the soup pot and cook all together, stirring, for another 5 minutes. At first, the dumplings will sink to the bottom, so you need to stir the soup for the first couple of minutes so that the dumplings do not stick to the bottom or to each other.

17. Step 16:

    

    As the dumplings are ready, they will gradually float to the surface. When all the dumplings pop up, the soup is ready. Taste it and, if necessary, add salt and pepper.

18. Step 17:

    

    Remove the pan from the heat, cover with a lid and let the soup brew for 15 minutes. Then pour the soup on plates and serve to the table. Enjoy your meal!