Many of us are used to buying semi-finished products in the store, because often there is simply not enough time to cook at home. But if you plan your time, you will definitely find an hour to make dumplings with raw potatoes and lard.

This dish will take you to the village, where fresh air, silence and your favorite dumplings are prepared in the oven. You can cook more of them and freeze them. Homemade dumplings are much tastier than store ones. Try to cook them according to this recipe and see for yourself.

Recipe for dumplings with raw potatoes and bacon

Kitchen appliances and utensils: cooking stove, saucepan, rolling pin.

Ingredients

Choosing the right ingredients

• For these dumplings, use freshly salted lard. You can adjust its amount yourself, but usually a third of the amount of potatoes is enough.
• You can substitute margarine for butter, if desired, but it tastes better with butter.

Step by step recipe

1. Put 50 g of slightly melted butter in a deep bowl. You can put it in the room for an hour or keep it in the microwave for a few seconds.
2. Add a teaspoon of salt to the butter and grind the food.
   
   
3. Then add 120 g flour and mix with butter.
   
   
4. Pour in 150 g of boiling water and stir quickly until smooth. So we get a choux pastry, which is considered the best for dumplings.
   
   
5. Then pour 150 g of mineral sparkling water into the mixture.
   
   
6. Mix everything, beat in one egg and mix again.
   
   
7. Then gradually add 250-300 g of flour and knead a hard, elastic dough. Knead it by hand, roll it into a ball, sprinkle with flour and cover. Leave it to rest while the filling is cooking.
   
   
8. Now we will make the filling. To do this, peel 4-5 fresh potato tubers and grate them on a fine grater. Put the resulting mass on a sieve and drain off excess liquid.
   
   
9. Remove the skin from a piece of fresh bacon, about 150 g, and cut into very small cubes.
   
   
10. Mix potatoes with bacon and add black pepper. If you wish, you can add salt, but a little, because the lard is salty. The filling is ready.
    
    
11. Now we can roll out the dough in a layer and squeeze out blanks for dumplings with a glass.
    
    
12. Put the filling in the middle of each cake, mold the edges and place on a floured surface.
    
    
13. Boil water in a saucepan, pour 0.5 tsp into it. salt and send our dumplings.
    
    
14. After the water boils with them, cook for 4-5 minutes. Serve hot with your favorite sauce and butter.
    
    

• Please note that salted lard is used, so you do not need to add salt to the filling.
• We make custard dough - it is such a dough that is considered ideal for dumplings.
• While cooking, place the pieces in boiling water, slowly, one at a time. This will scald them immediately and prevent them from sticking to the bottom of the pan. Wait for the dumplings to float up with a head, and only then stir - this will also help them maintain their integrity.

Video recipe for making dumplings with raw potatoes

If you want to watch the process of preparing and sculpting dumplings, watch this video. You will see how to knead the dough, what the filling will be, how to make dumplings and what happens when fully cooked.

Feeding options

• Serve hot with a piece of butter.
• You can also additionally serve sour cream, mayonnaise or a sauce made from these products with the addition of herbs and garlic.
• These dumplings will also be very tasty to combine with fried onions.
• During sculpting, the edge of the blanks can be pressed down with a fork or made in the shape of a pigtail, so our food will have a more appetizing look.

Cooking options

Here we are with you and learned how to make hearty, rustic dumplings with bacon and raw potatoes... In general, you can make absolutely any filling for dumplings to your taste. That is why everyone loves this dish, because the filling can be adjusted independently. According to the above recipe, you can make dumplings with raw potatoes and cheese. To do this, take 200 g of your favorite cheese, grate it and mix with potatoes. You do not need to add lard to such a filling. The rest of the process of sculpting and cooking them remains the same.

• My favorites are the ones that my family and I love to cook and eat in the summer during the cherry season. At this time, I cook them almost every day and enjoy the sweet and sour taste of my favorite dish.
• Make this simple yet delicious recipe. They can be cooked with sauerkraut, sauerkraut, or simply stewed cabbage. I prefer the first option more, then the dish has a spicy sourness.
• How not to leave a recipe for you. Cottage cheese for the filling can be made sweet or salty, and you can eat them with sweet sauce or just sour cream. We belong to the sweet tooth, so we always combine such a dish with sour cream, sugar, honey or some sweet syrup.
• When you want dumplings, but you don't have much desire to sculpt them, you can make such a dish. This dish will take no more than half an hour, and the taste of ordinary dumplings in them is well felt.

Dear culinary experts, I hope today's recipe helped you with the preparation of delicious dumplings... If in the process of preparing them you have any questions or comments, you can leave them in the comments, I will definitely read it. And now I wish you success and bon appetit!