Marbled beef dumplings

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make dumplings from marbled beef? Prepare the products. Do you see how many fat layers the meat has? It is they who give tenderness to meat. You can make the dough according to the recipe you are used to, it does not matter. I make the classic — flour, water, egg and salt.

2. Step 2:

   

   Start cooking by kneading the dough. How to make dough? Sift flour into a bowl, make a funnel in the middle and break an egg into it. Stir it lightly with a fork and pour in the water. Do not pour all the water at once, add a little so that the dough does not become liquid. First work with a fork, then with your hands.

3. Step 3:

   

   Move the dough to a table sprinkled with flour and knead a tight smooth dough. You can knock it off the table, throwing it with force on a clean surface. This makes the dough elastic. Next, cover the lump of dough with a towel and leave to rest for half an hour so that the gluten contained in the flour swells and the dough becomes stronger.

4. Step 4:

   

   Prepare the filling. How to make the filling? Wash the meat with cold water and dry it thoroughly with a paper towel. Then cut it into large chunks. If you have frozen meat, do not defrost it to the end, so it will be easier to cut it.

5. Step 5:

   

   Peel the onion and cut into large slices.

6. Step 6:

   

   Pass the meat along with the onion through a meat grinder.

7. Step 7:

   

   Knead the minced meat well. Add salt and pepper to taste.

9. Step 8:

   

   Meanwhile, the dough has already rested. Roll it out into a thin layer about 3 millimeters thick. If necessary, add flour so that the dough does not stick to the board.

10. Step 9:

    

    I cut the blanks for future dumplings with a large glass, you can cut in the way you are used to.

11. Step 10:

    

    Spread the lumps of minced meat on all the circles at once. This is also a matter of habit, my family has always made dumplings in this way. Someone takes a circle of dough and puts the minced meat with a spoon in turn. It was possible not to roll out the dough at all, but to make a sausage first, cut it and roll out each piece. Here you decide for yourself.

12. Step 11:

    

    Make dumplings. First, pinch the edge in the form of a pie.

13. Step 12:

    

    Then connect the ends by twisting the dumpling into a circle. This is the most classic way of modeling. And the simplest.

14. Step 13:

    

    Blind all the dumplings in this way.

15. Step 14:

    

    It remains only to boil them. How to cook dumplings? Boil a large amount of water in a saucepan, add salt. Throw the dumplings into boiling water, mix so that they do not stick to the bottom. I always put a bay leaf. After surfacing, cook the dumplings for a short time — ten minutes will be enough. Serve ready-made dumplings with sour cream, mayonnaise, oil, vinegar. Enjoy your meal!