Lazy cottage cheese vareniki
Description
If your family loves lazy vareniki, you're in luck—this dish is very simple and quick to prepare. Don't know how? I'll show you.
Instructions
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Step 1
Place the cottage cheese and egg in a bowl. Add salt and sugar. If you're using homemade cottage cheese, it's best to press it through a sieve or simply mash it thoroughly to avoid large lumps.
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Step 2
Now you can put the pot of water on the stove to boil the dumplings. Mix everything thoroughly until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
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Step 3
Add the flour. I take the flour with a tablespoon, like this, with a heap.
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Step 4
The amount of flour may be slightly more or less—it depends on how liquid your cottage cheese is. Homemade cottage cheese is always drier, so you'll need about half a spoon less flour.
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Step 5
And mix everything thoroughly. The dough will turn out soft and sticky.
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Step 6
Sprinkle the table with flour and shape the dough into two sausages, about 1.5 cm in diameter. I slightly flatten the sausage so that the dumplings turn out oval rather than round.
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Step 7
And cut the sausage diagonally into pieces about 1 cm wide.
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Step 8
Transfer the future dumplings onto a board dusted with flour.
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Step 9
As soon as the water boils, add a pinch of salt and sugar and place the dumplings in. Do not add too many dumplings at once.
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Step 10
As soon as the dumplings float to the surface, cook for 5 minutes. And do not allow too vigorous boiling!
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Step 11
Well, that's it—the vareniki are ready! Add some butter or sour cream to them. Now you can enjoy.