Dough for dumplings: what to add to make it successful

Dumplings are a delicious, hearty, and easy-to-prepare dish made from dough with meat filling. They can be made from different doughs, and not only meat can be used for the filling.

Cook Olha Matvii shared a recipe for a successful dough for delicious meat-filled dumplings on her YouTube channel.

It is better to make dumpling dough with kefir. It will make it elastic, but not hard!

Ingredients:

• Flour – 400 - 450 g
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Kefir – 200 ml
• Dill – 30 g

• Soda – 1 tsp
• Salt – a pinch

The filling:

• Onions – 2 pcs.
• Garlic to taste
• Minced meat – 400 - 500 g
• Salt, pepper, paprika, bay leaf – to taste

Method of preparation:

1. For the dough: beat the egg with kefir at room temperature, and add baking soda, salt, and chopped dill. After 3-4 minutes, add all the flour and knead the dough.

2. Knead the dough for about 5 minutes.

3. Season the minced meat with salt, add the garlic, blended onion, and spices.

4. Roll out the dough into a thin layer, and make circles with a glass.

5. Put the filling, fold it in half, without pressing the part to the minced meat, and connect the corners.

6. Bring water to a boil and boil the dumplings.