Vareniki with cherries - the taste of sunny summer

There are dishes that are timed to a particular season. Gourmets who prefer vareniki with cherries do not always wait for these fruits. They are ready to compromise and agree to stuffing with cherries or to use frozen berries to bring the taste of summer closer.

Vareniki is a dish of Slavic cuisine, which is very popular in the post-Soviet space, especially in Ukraine. The admirers of this food are not limited to cherry filling, everyone has their own preferences. In the honor vareniki with cherries and other berries, as well as with meat, cottage cheese, vegetables. You can prepare a dish for every taste. Also vareniki with cherries can be prepared on a fresh test with the addition of yeast or kefir. All options are equally good, but the choice is made by the hostess, based on her culinary skills and preferences of the household.

To prepare a dough for cherry dumplings , the following components will be required: wheat flour - 250-300 grams, kefir (milk whey) - 150-200 grams, water - 100 grams, 5 grams of salt, eggs - 2 pieces, 5 grams of baking soda, 50 grams of sugar.

Eggs need to be beaten with salt mixer in foam, mixed with cooled boiled water and yogurt. In a bowl, sift the flour through a fine-mesh sieve to loosen the product. Now, in a thin trickle, gradually pour the liquid part into the flour with sugar and soda (without vinegar), whilst mixing everything with a mixer with a special nozzle to a homogeneous mass. The dough should become steep enough, so we further interfere with our hands. The finished mass is allowed to stand for 15 minutes at a temperature of 20-25 ° C for better swelling of the gluten, so that it becomes more plastic.

To dumplings with cherries turned out delicious and juicy, you need to properly prepare the berries for the filling. We wash the cherry under the water and pour out on the towel to get wet the remains of moisture. Using tools or manually, cutting one edge, we remove the stone from the fetus. Spread the cherries on a plate and let stand 10 minutes to juice the stack with berries. If you cook not in the season of fresh berries and use frozen cherries, then it is necessary for 7-9 hours to get them from the freezer and put the thaw in the refrigerator at a temperature of no higher than 3-5 ° C, so that the loss of moisture was minimal.

The dough is rolled on a table about 3 mm thick with a rolling pin. Vareniki with cherries can be made in any shape, so choose yourself. Traditionally they are plastered in the form of a month, but can be in the form of folded triangles or squares. Therefore, based on our own preferences, we cut out the blanks. If dumplings with cherries are in the form of a month, then make circles; If triangular shape, then cut the squares. It should be remembered that dumplings are more dumplings in size, so the circumference and diagonal of the blanks should not be less than 5 cm. In the middle of the test of the desired shape, place strictly in the center 3 cherries, sprinkle a small amount of sugar and semolina (to absorb the juice, so that the vareniki do not get unstuck ). We fasten the edges, and vareniki with cherries are ready.

The dish is good because you can always make it for future use. To do this, dumplings with cherries are placed in one layer (not to stick together) on parchment paper and placed in the freezer until they become firm. Now they can be folded and stored in a plastic bag or box at minus temperatures. Juicy and delicate vareniki will please both in summer and in the harsh winter.

Dumplings with cherries are cooked for a couple. You can just cook, placing in boiling water, stirring at the same time, until they float up, so that they do not stick together and stick to the bottom of the pan. Then they spread on the plate. Serve dumplings with cherries to the table with hot, watered cherry syrup or sour cream. To prepare cherry syrup you need juice, which should be carefully collected. In it, add sugar (per 100 grams of juice 10-15 grams of sugar) and cook for about five minutes on a small fire until a viscous consistency. The syrup is served in a gravy boat or with the dumplings themselves in a serving dish. You can serve dumplings with cherries and cold to tea, like dessert.