What they do not cook now in a slow cooker designed for cooking simple, crumbly cereals. Dumplings - a special case. It would seem that one can completely dispense with grandfather technologies, and suddenly a student is uncomfortable to acquire a kitchen arsenal, or you went to the sea in order to live in a rented apartment. In any case, the option of boiling dumplings for a couple may also seem more convenient if you use a slow cooker instead of a pan.
Dumplings in a slow cooker - general principles of cooking
• You can cook dumplings in a slow cooker in two ways: steamed or in a cooking container.
• Preparation of semi-finished products in a multi-pan is not much different from cooking in a conventional pan on the stove. Dumplings can be prepared both homemade and purchased, frozen or just fashioned. Frozen semi-finished products, regardless of the preferred cooking method, are not thawed in advance.
• The most difficult thing with steam cooking, if you prefer to cook dumplings with spices. In this case, it is better to refuse bay leaf, as a rule, it only adds bitterness and not the best aroma. But almost all types of pepper are perfect.
• If the dish is originally intended to be spicy, you can put in the water, without cutting, a fresh pod of hot pepper before cooking. Red is the best. If you want to give the dish not only aroma, but also spice, sprinkle the dumplings themselves with pepper or other seasonings, about 5 minutes after the start of cooking, when they already become sufficiently moist. It is desirable to halve the number of seasonings in comparison with classical cooking.
• The versatility of the device allows you to diversify a regular dish of boiled dumplings. Using various programs, dumplings in a slow cooker are prepared, even without the use of additional dishes, with various sauces and vegetables. With dumplings in the slow cooker cook the first and second courses.
How to cook dumplings in a slow cooker for a couple
Ingredients:
• 300 gr. purchased meat dumplings;
• 20 gr. butter, unsalted butter;
• one leaf of parsley.
Cooking method:
1. Pour one and a half liters of warm water into the cooking pot of the multicooker. Lower the lavrushka.
2. Rub the steam container well with butter and place it in the multicooker housing. Put dumplings in one layer. You do not need to defrost them.
3. Lower the multi-pan lid and start the appliance on the “Steam cooking” option for 25 minutes.
4. The cooking time may vary and depends primarily on the thickness of the dough. If after 25 minutes the dough does not fall apart, increase the time by another quarter hour.
How to cook dumplings in a slow cooker on water
Ingredients:
• a pound of frozen convenience foods;
• salt or seasoning "For vegetables";
• a few peas of pepper;
• a small leaf of lavrushka;
• three spoons of homemade, or just fat sour cream;
• a spoonful of homemade cream, or butter.
Cooking method:
1. Pour filtered drinking water into the cup to the highest mark.
2. Set the multicook timer to 20 minutes and activate the “Soup” mode. Be sure to close the lid, otherwise the water will boil for a long time.
3. Dip the boiling water in boiling water, taking the sample, salt or add the vegetable seasoning. Wait for boiling again and immediately lower all the dumplings. Stir and let cook under the lid.
4. After 7 minutes, mix again and wait for the program to stop.
5. After the signal has been triggered, carefully remove the cooking container from the housing and pour its contents into a colander.
6. When all the broth has gone well, put the dumplings in a deep bowl and season with cream or butter. Cover the bowl, turn over and shake several times so that melted butter envelops each dumpling.
7. Then lay the dish in plates and put on each serving a spoonful of sour cream.
How to cook dumplings in a slow cooker on a vegetable pillow
Ingredients:
• frozen dumplings - 500 gr.;
• half of sweet pepper;
• one small carrot;
• medium sized tomato;
• onion head;
• Lavrushka - 2 leaves;
• clove of garlic;
• a small piece of hard cheese - 30 g .;
• two tablespoons of cleaned lean vegetable oil;
• seasoning "For vegetables";
• several branches of fresh dill.
Cooking method:
1. Slice carrots and bell peppers into thin straws, and onions with medium-sized cubes.
2. Activate the “Baking” option on the multicooker and pour vegetable oil into the bowl. Dip the vegetables into it, and, sometimes stirring, cook for five minutes with the lid of the appliance open. Then add the diced tomato.
3. After five minutes, cover the vegetables with frozen dumplings. On top of them lay a couple of leaves of parsley, salt and season with "For Vegetables" seasoning.
4. Fill the bowl with water so that it completely covers all foods.
5. Lower and lock the lid, cook in the previously activated mode for another half hour.
6. Arrange the prepared dumplings with vegetables on plates and sprinkle each serving with large cheese crumbs mixed with chopped garlic.
How to cook dumplings in a slow cooker, in tomato and sour cream sauce
Ingredients:
• 700 gr. homemade or purchased dumplings (frozen);
• 50 gr. thick tomato juice;
• low fat sour cream - 50 gr.;
• one medium-sized carrot;
• 400 ml of drinking water;
• small onion;
• a small pinch of condiment "Sunflower hops".
Cooking method:
1. Grind the onion and put it in the hob. Grate coarse carrots and send it to the onion.
2. Put frozen dumplings on top of vegetables.
3. Combine the sour cream with tomato juice, add the sun-hops and mix well. Dilute everything with water and salt.
4. Pour the dumplings with the prepared sauce and cook for one hour on the "Stew" program.
5. After the end of the activated mode, soak the dumplings in the bowl for another seven minutes.
How to cook dumplings in a slow cooker with dried mushrooms in sour cream sauce
Ingredients:
• 200 gr. any dried mushrooms;
• 400 gr. frozen convenience foods;
• sour cream 20% - 200 gr.;
• 200 ml of pasteurized milk;
• refined oil;
• fresh herbs;
• a small onion head.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse the mushrooms with warm water, and then fill with milk.
2. Sliced, trying not to chop, chop the onion.
3. Pour approximately 50 ml of oil into the multicooker bowl and turn on the appliance in the Baking program.
4. After three minutes, dip the frozen convenience foods in the preheated oil and fry them for 10 minutes. Less time may be required, the main thing is to achieve golden staining.
5. Transfer the onions to the dumplings, mix and turn off the frying mode.
6. Drain the milk from the mushrooms and add sour cream into it. Add a little salt, pour half a glass of drinking water and mix well.
7. Squeeze out the soaked mushrooms slightly, cut into small strips, and transfer to a bowl.
8. Pour in sour cream sauce and mix. Select and activate Extinguishing mode, lasting 20 minutes.
9. When serving, cook dumplings with mushrooms cooked in a multicooker and sprinkle with finely chopped greens.
How to cook dumplings in a slow cooker: an unusual recipe with noodles
Ingredients:
• 250 gr. frozen dumplings;
• 100 grams of thin noodles;
• one small carrot;
• one red tomato;
• head of a bitter onion;
• one leaf of parsley;
• two teaspoons of salt;
• dill;
• non-aromatic sunflower oil - 50 ml.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the onion into medium-sized slices, tomato - slices. Rub a carrot on a coarse grater.
2. Pour the oil into the cooking vessel and warm it for three minutes on the "Fry".
3. Dumplings in a bowl, do not need to defrost them. Add the onions and carrots and sauté all together. To prevent the semi-finished products from sticking, occasionally stir the contents of the bowl.
4. When the vegetables are soft and the dumplings thaw, switch the current mode to “Soup” and fill the bowl with water to the maximum mark. Salt, lower the lavrushka and close the lid.
5. After 40 minutes, add dry noodles. Stir, pour finely chopped dill and leave in the disconnected multicooker under the lid for a quarter of an hour.
How to cook dumplings in a slow cooker: a recipe for vegetable dumplings soup
Ingredients:
• Bulgarian pepper pod - 1 pc.;
• half a medium carrot;
• onion - a small head;
• refined vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l .;
• 200 gr. frozen convenience foods;
• fresh parsley - 2-3 branches.
Cooking method:
1. Chop the carrots and peppers with a small, thin straw. Cut the onion into small pieces.
2. On the option "Baking" in vegetable oil, first fry the carrots with onions. Once they are soft and have a golden hue, add pepper and continue to fry until it softens.
3. Then put the semi-finished foods in a bowl frozen. Pour in one liter of cold filtered water and salt.
4. Put the multicooker into the "Extinguishing" mode, and set the timer for one hour. Turn on.
5. After the program has been completed and stopped, add finely chopped parsley to the soup and leave it in the “Preheating” state for 10 minutes. The appliance cover must be closed.
Dumplings in a slow cooker - cooking tricks and useful tips
• Boiling dumplings for a couple, without fail lubricate the steam container with butter and lay out the semi-finished products, stepping back to the thickness of the little finger, from each other. This will help prevent the dough from sticking to the steam tank and sticking the dumplings together.
• Even if you cook dumplings in a slow cooker in the usual "cooking" way, be careful when lowering them in boiling water! The fact is that regardless of the coating of the cooking cup, the dough loves to stick to it. It is very simple to spoil an expensive device, and in order to avoid this, it is enough to just mix the water with a wooden or plastic spatula when laying the semi-finished products.
• To prevent steam dumplings from being dry, grease them before boiling with melted butter.
• Steam dumplings will cook faster if hot water is not poured into the bowl.
• Thin thin noodles only after making dumplings, and do not cook. It will reach readiness even with the device turned off.
