Custard dough on water with egg for cooking

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the products for making the dough. It is better to take the oil odorless, so that its taste is not felt in the finished products. The approximate amount of flour is given, it may take less or more, it depends on the quality and moisture content of the flour. Boil the water immediately before adding it to the dough.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pour two cups of flour into a deep bowl. Add a good pinch of salt, stir. Pour in the vegetable oil, stir with a fork.

3. Step 3:

   

   Boil the water. Pour boiling water into a glass and immediately start pouring it into the flour, actively stirring it with a fork. It is not necessary to knead the dough immediately until smooth, just mix the flour with water, and that's it. Leave the resulting mass to cool.

4. Step 4:

   

   When the dough is warm, add an egg to it. Start stirring first with a fork.

6. Step 5:

   

   And then with your hands. In the process of kneading, add flour if necessary. The dough turns out sticky at first.

7. Step 6:

   

   Place the dough on a work surface sprinkled with flour. Continue kneading, achieving smoothness and uniformity of the dough. When it becomes so, collect it into a ball.

8. Step 7:

   

   Put the dough in a bag or wrap in plastic wrap. Leave it to lie down for 20-30 minutes. During this time, gluten will develop in the dough, which will make it elastic. And due to boiling water, this will happen even faster.

9. Step 8:

   

   Then spread the dough on the work surface and work with it, as with the usual cooking of dumplings or dumplings. You will immediately notice how soft and pliable it is. Products made of custard dough are cooked as well as from the usual - they are thrown into boiling water, brought to a boil, after surfacing they cook for 3 minutes.