Dumplings with pork fat and potatoes
Description
The dish is prepared without unnecessary complications. Making vareniki with lard and potatoes at home is very easy. The dough is prepared quickly (although it needs to rest for 20 minutes), but overall, no more than 90 minutes will be required to complete the dish. Especially since you'll get a large quantity of vareniki, which can be frozen for later use and then simply cooked in about 10 minutes. These vareniki are quite fatty, but so incredibly delicious that it's impossible to resist and not eat "just one more piece." The dish is now ready to be served.
Instructions
- 1
Step 1
Boil the potatoes in salted water until fully cooked.
- 2
Step 2
Finely chop the onion. Finely chop the piece of pork fat as well.
- 3
Step 3
Fry in a pan until golden brown.
- 4
Step 4
Drain the water from the pot with boiled potatoes (leaving a little), add pepper and butter, then mash until smooth.
- 5
Step 5
Add the bacon and onion.
- 6
Step 6
Sift the flour, add salt, and break in the egg. Add baking soda to the kefir and mix. Then gradually pour in the kefir and knead the dough. Continue kneading by hand. Let the firm dough rest for 20 minutes.
- 7
Step 7
Divide the dough into several parts, roll into a sausage, cut into small pieces, and roll each piece into flatbreads.
- 8
Step 8
Place the filling in the center of the flatbread, fold in half, and seal the edges.
- 9
Step 9
Put the water on the stove, bring it to a boil, add salt, and drop in the vareniki. Stir and cook until they float to the surface; after they float, continue cooking for another 4-5 minutes.
- 10
Step 10
We cut the remaining fat.
- 11
Step 11
Fry in a pan, add onion.
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Step 12
Place the vareniki on a plate, pour over the cracklings with onions, and serve.