Homemade dumplings are prepared with different fillings. The traditional one is cottage cheese, which can be made sweet and salty. However, the most important thing is to prepare a successful soft and elastic dough, which will not fall apart.

Food blogger Oksana Cherpak (cherpak_oksana) on her Instagram page shared a recipe for dumplings with salted cottage cheese.

Ingredients:

• flour - 300 g (+100 g for kneading)
• water - 120-150 ml (room temperature)
• salt - 0.5 tsp.
• baking soda

Filling:

• cottage cheese - 350 g
• lard - 100 g
• onion - 2 pcs
• sour cream - 200 g
• black pepper, dry garlic

Method of preparation:

1. To prepare the dough, dissolve salt in chilled water.

2. Sift the flour into a bowl, add baking soda and make indentations in the mixture. Gradually pour in water, stirring constantly with a spoon. Then knead the elastic dough with your hands, adding the remaining flour. Cover the finished dough with a napkin and leave it for 20 minutes.

3. To prepare the filling, mix cottage cheese, salt, pepper, dry garlic and fried onion.

4. Knead the dough, roll out into a layer and cut out circles. Make dumplings with filling.

5. Boil the dumplings.

6. Serve ready dumplings with scallions, onions and sour cream. Bon appetit!

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