Potato dumplings with meat

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   First of all, prepare all the products that you will need to cook potato dumplings with meat. If you have a piece of meat, then twist it into minced meat. The recipe used ready-made minced pork.

2. Step 2:

   

   Peel potatoes and onions. Wash the vegetables in clean water.

3. Step 3:

   

   Grate the potatoes on the smallest grater (as in the photo). Chop one onion in the same way.

4. Step 4:

   

   Put the resulting mass in portions into cheesecloth and squeeze well from the juice.

5. Step 5:

   

   Send the pressed potatoes and onions to a separate deep container.

6. Step 6:

   

   Beat the egg into the potato mass, add the sifted flour and a pinch of salt, as well as a little fragrant or ground black pepper.

7. Step 7:

   

   Knead the dough, if necessary, add a little more flour (the consistency should not be very thick and at the same time so that it is possible to make a ball out of it with your hands).

8. Step 8:

   

   Prepare the stuffing. Cut the second onion as finely as possible, send it to the meat, season everything with salt and pepper to taste.

9. Step 9:

   

   Mix everything thoroughly.

11. Step 10:

    

    Lubricate clean hands with vegetable oil. This is necessary so that the potato mass does not stick to your hands. Pinch off a small amount of dough and make a tortilla out of it. Put some minced meat in the middle.

12. Step 11:

    

    Pinch the edges from all sides.

13. Step 12:

    

    Form a ball slightly larger than an apricot. Try to make sure that there are no cracks on the buns, otherwise the dumplings may fall apart when cooking.

14. Step 13:

    

    Roll the dumplings from all the dough and minced meat in this way, periodically lubricate your hands with oil.

15. Step 14:

    

    Boil water in a saucepan, add bay leaf and a little salt. It is better to take a bigger saucepan so that the dumplings all fit and do not stick together when cooking. Send the buns to boiling water, after they pop up, reduce the heat slightly to moderate and cook for another 30 minutes (note that the dumplings should boil all this time, if this does not happen, then slightly add heat).

16. Step 15:

    

    Fish the finished balls out of the pan with a slotted spoon and put one layer on a flat large dish. The dumplings are ready, you can serve them with sour cream or butter. Various sauces will also suit them.

17. Step 16:

    

    I suggest serving them with fried onions. To do this, cut the fat into small pieces, melt the fat from it in a frying pan.

18. Step 17:

    

    Catch the pork rinds, and add finely chopped onion to the fat. Fry to the desired degree. Butter can be used instead of lard.

19. Step 18:

    

    Send the fried onion to the dumplings, sprinkle with herbs and ground pepper. The dish is ready!