Crispy Dumplings
An altenative to boiled dumplings, crispy, delicious, finishes in minutes.
Servings 5 servings
Calories 500kcal
Ingredients
Dough
- 500 grams flour
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 200 millilitres water
Filling
- 200 grams ground meat, beef
- 1 onion grated
- 10 stalks parsley (optional) chopped
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 pinch ground black pepper
- 1 pinch red pepper flakes (optional)
Yogurt Garnish
- 500 grams plain yogurt
- 5 garlic cloves crushed
- 1 pinch salt (optional
Tomato Sause
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tomatoes grated
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 50 millilitres water
- 1 garlic clove crushed
- 1 pinch red pepper flakes (optional)
Additional Spices to Garnish
- 1 pinch dry mint flakes
- 1 pinch cummin
- 1 pinch red pepper flakes
- 1 pinch sumac
To fry (for each serving)
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon butter
Instructions
Dumplings
- Add almost all the flour - spare about a glass-full - into a large mixing bowl. Make a hole in the middle to add the egg, water and salt.
- Knead either with your hands or a processor until you obtain a stiff dough.
- Set aside the dough, covering it with a clean kitchen towel for at least 10 minutes. Always keep dough covered with a cloth when you are not using/handling it.
- Sprinkle your workspace with some flour. Make small, walnut sized balls out of the main dough and sprinkle each with flour. Spread each one out with a rolling pin to achieve a thickness about 1-2 millimetres.
- Cut each sheet to small squares of 2 centimetres.
- Put small amounts of filling on each suqare.
- First fold one corner somewhat diagonally.
- Then turn it to the other side. While putting your finger in the middle, stick the other facing two corners to each other.
- Continue untill all the material is finished. While you are doing this, put the little bundles on a tray, making sure they do not touch each other and stick.
- Make sure you stick the corners to each other. You can try different shapes or invent your own shape.
Filling
- Filling does not need cooking. Just mix well all the filling ingredients as if you are preparing meatballs.
Yogurt Garnish
- Just mix all the yogurt garnish ingredients until you have a creamy texture.
Tomato Sauce
- Slightly warm a saucepan. Add the olive oil.
- Add the grated tomato. If not available you can choose to use 2 tablespoons of tomato paste or canned chopped tomatoes.
- Add all the other tomato garnish ingredients. Cook until well combined.
Frying
- Warm a skillet. Add the olive oil and butter. Melt over medium heat. Make sure the butter does not burn.
- Add dumplings enough to serve 1 dish.
- Once brownish on the bottom.
- Place a plate on top.
- Put you palm on the plate and flip it over.
- Then slide slowly all the dumplings back to the skillet.
- Fry again until slightly brownish.
- When ready transfer the dumplings to your serving dish.
- Garnish first with yogurt, then with tomato sauce.
- Sprinkle with garnish spices as desired.
- Serve quickly while still warm.