Lazy dumplings are a quick, simple and healthy breakfast that will appeal not only to adults, but also to children. And most importantly, even a novice housewife can easily cope with their preparation!
Ingredients for making dumplings
- fresh cottage cheese (0.5 kg);
- flour and/or semolina (150-200 grams);
- salt (to taste);
- sugar (1.5 tbsp);
- egg (1 pc.).
How to replace good dough?
- Mash the cottage cheese with a fork to get rid of lumps.
- Add salt, sugar, egg and mix.
- Add semolina and flour. You can add one or the other, depending on personal preference or the availability of one or another ingredient on hand.
Depending on the fat content of the cottage cheese, you may need a little more or a little less flour, so you need to mix it in small portions so as not to overdo it. Otherwise, the dumplings will become too tight and will not be tasty.
The finished dough should be soft, slightly moist and sticky to your hands.
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Why are these dumplings called the laziest? Because they don’t even need to be sculpted.The advantage of this method is that after preparing dumplings you do not need to wash a mountain of dishes and wipe off flour from the table, but this is what stops many housewives from preparing such a delicious dish.
We divide the resulting mass into several parts and put it in a pastry bag. It's best to use disposable bags; you can make a foot-sized hole if you don't have a suitable nozzle.
Attention! It is better to use a pastry bag. A soft plastic bag will not withstand the pressure and will break.
If you end up with too much dough, don’t worry, you can freeze it and store it as a semi-finished product; this won’t make the dumplings any worse.
You can store the finished dough for dumplings in the freezer for several months, and in the refrigerator for no more than a day.
How to cook lazy dumplings?
Squeeze the required amount of dough directly from the pastry bag and cut off.
Place the dumplings immediately into salted boiling water. Cooking time depends on the size of the dumplings - from 20 seconds after floating to a minute. Be sure to stir the gnocchi occasionally to prevent them from sticking to the bottom of the pan.
You can serve lazy dumplings with anything: butter, sour cream, jam, honey. If you want to surprise your guests with an unusual presentation of the dish, decorate the dumplings with fresh fruit and powdered sugar.
