Healthy Pelmeni with Eggplant
Description
The recipe won't take much time. You can eat healthy and delicious food without giving up flour-based products, provided, of course, that we use "healthy flour": oat, whole wheat, or rye. In this recipe, I'll show you. Serve hot.
Instructions
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Step 1
Here are our ingredients for making the dough.
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Step 2
Pour the flour into a bowl, add salt and olive oil, and mix. Then add water and knead until you get a smooth dough that is easy to shape into dumplings. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and let it rest for 30–40 minutes.
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Step 3
Cut the eggplant lengthwise into 1 cm thick slices, brush with olive oil, and sprinkle with salt, pepper, and basil. Place in a preheated oven at 180 degrees and bake for about 20 minutes.
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Step 4
Remove the skin from the baked eggplant.
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Step 5
And cut the flesh into small cubes. Cut the low-fat cheese into cubes of the same size.
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Step 6
Mix well and you'll get the dumpling filling. Taste it and add whatever you feel is missing.
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Step 7
Roll out the dough into a thin layer and cut it into squares with sides approximately 5 cm.
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Step 8
Place the filling on each square of dough.
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Step 9
And form the dumplings. First, fold them like this, into a triangle. Be sure to seal the edges tightly!
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Step 10
And then we will connect the ends of the triangular dumpling and get a product like this.
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Step 11
Aren't the dumplings beautiful? :)
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Step 12
Boil the dumplings in boiling, slightly salted water until the dough is cooked. Mine took 5 minutes from the moment the water started boiling.
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Step 13
And here the dumplings are ready, you can enjoy them. Here's what they look like when cut open.