Ukrainian vareniki with cottage cheese
Description
The recipe won't take much time. Making vareniki starts with preparing the dough, which can be a simple one made from water, flour, and eggs, or a boiled dough made from the same ingredients, as in this recipe. Then prepare the filling: season the cottage cheese with sugar to your taste, and you can also add raisins and cherries to the cottage cheese. Serve hot.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients.
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Step 2
Sift the flour and make a depression in it.
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Step 3
Add 0.5 teaspoon of salt to the flour.
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Step 4
Pour 25 ml of vegetable oil into 100 ml of boiling water.
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Step 5
Beat one egg.
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Step 6
Pour the boiling water with butter into the depression in the flour.
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Step 7
Then pour one egg into the dough.
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Step 8
Knead the dough well by hand until smooth for 10 minutes, then place it in a bag and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare the filling.
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Step 9
Add sugar to the cottage cheese to taste and a pinch of salt. Blend with a blender until no lumps remain.
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Step 10
Add an egg to the cottage cheese.
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Step 11
Beat until smooth.
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Step 12
Prepare a place for the dumplings, lightly dust with flour.
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Step 13
Sprinkle the work surface of the table with flour, place the dough on it, and divide it into two parts.
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Step 14
Roll out the dough thinly into a sheet and cut out dough circles using a glass or tumbler.
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Step 15
Place the filling in the center of the dough circle and seal the edges well so the filling doesn't leak out during cooking. You can leave it in this form.
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Step 16
And you can make the edges of the dumplings decorative or braided.
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Step 17
This amount of ingredients yielded 55 vareniki.
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Step 18
Boil the vareniki and serve them, pouring melted butter on top and accompanied by sour cream.