Lazy dumplings with potatoes

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make lazy dumplings with potatoes? Prepare the products. Puree for cooking dumplings, you can cook specially or use ready-made, left over from dinner. I'll cook half a serving. The weight of the potatoes is indicated already peeled. The amount of flour is given approximate, how much it will be needed, you will look at the test.

2. Step 2:

   

   How to cook potatoes? Wash it and peel it, and then cut it into pieces, so the potatoes will cook faster. Put it in a saucepan, fill it with cold clean water.

3. Step 3:

   

   Put the pan on medium heat, wait for it to boil, turn down the heat. Cook the potatoes until tender, 20-25 minutes, depending on the size and variety. Determine readiness with a knife — it should freely pierce the pieces. There is no need to salt the potatoes, we will do this at the stage of kneading the dough.

4. Step 4:

   

   Drain the water from the potatoes, and mash them into mashed potatoes.

5. Step 5:

   

   Add a piece of butter, mix.

6. Step 6:

   

   Beat the eggs into the puree, add salt and pepper to taste. Stir again until smooth. You can use a mixer, a spoon was enough for me.

7. Step 7:

   

   Start adding flour in small portions, kneading the dough after each addition. Now look at how the dough turns out to understand whether to add more flour or not. If there is too much flour, then the dumplings will turn out to be hard and not tasty.

9. Step 8:

   

   The dough will become quite thick, but it will still stick to your hands a little.

10. Step 9:

    

    Take a piece of dough, put it on a table or a board, dusted with flour. Roll a sausage out of it. Cut it into small pieces. For beauty, you can flatten each piece a little with a fork. I left the dumplings as they are.

11. Step 10:

    

    Boil the dumplings. How to cook lazy dumplings? Put a pot of clean water on the fire, bring the water to a boil, add salt to it. Throw lazy dumplings into the water, be sure to mix them with a spoon, otherwise they will stick to the bottom. Wait until the dumplings pop up and boil them for 3-4 minutes. Remove the finished dumplings with a slotted spoon and serve immediately. Do not cook a lot of dumplings at once, it's better to do it in portions. A large number may stick together.

12. Step 11:

    

    While the dumplings are cooking, and preferably a little earlier, prepare the onion. Peel it and cut it arbitrarily — I cut it into cubes, you can use half rings.

13. Step 12:

    

    Heat a frying pan over low heat, put a small piece of butter on it and then pour in a little vegetable oil. The addition of vegetable oil will not allow the butter to burn, since the first one has a higher gorenje temperature. Put the onion in the preheated oil. Fry the onion, stirring, over low heat until golden brown.

14. Step 13:

    

    Serve the dumplings, sprinkling them with fried onions in oil on top. Such dumplings with butter and sour cream are also delicious. Bon appetit!