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Nettle dumplings are a somewhat unusual option for a dish, but very healthy and tasty. You can prepare them with the addition of various ingredients, spices, or use only herb. Kurze is shaped like dumplings or traditional dumplings. The edges are pinched with a pigtail or in the usual way.
Cooking features
Nettle is one of the first spring plants. The herb contains a large number of elements necessary for the body. Meat dumplings are a traditional Russian dish, but you can make a vegetarian version using hot herbs.
The recipe for kurze with nettles (pictured) came from Dagestan. There are many cooking options. Recommendations for the preparation of ingredients and recipe technology will help you create a culinary masterpiece for every taste.
Kurze is a large size dumplings with nettles
For the filling, take a young plant, cut off the tops, about 10-15 cm each. The stems are not processed, the leaves must be separated and prepared.
Features of cooking nettle for kurze:
- The leaves are separated from the stems, revised. If the quality of raw materials is in doubt, then it is rejected.
- The green mass is washed under the tap.
- In order for small insects to float to the surface, the grass is placed in a wide container and poured with salted water.
- Cover with a lid and leave for 15 minutes.
- The workpiece is thrown into a colander and allowed to drain off the water. Placed on a napkin to evaporate moisture.
In some recipes, it is recommended to pour boiling water over the leaves, but after heat treatment, the plant will lose some of its vitamins.
The nettle is chopped to the state of minced meat, this will require a large knife
The classic recipe for kurze with nettles
The classic version of making dumplings with nettle in Dagestan is the most common and simple recipe. It requires a minimum of ingredients.
Filling products:
- chopped nettle - 500 g;
- large onion - 2 pcs.;
- sunflower oil and butter - 1 tbsp. l.
- egg - 2 pcs.
Preparation:
- The onions are chopped.
- Oil is added to the pan, the onion is poured.
- Fry until dark yellow.
- Eggs, onions are added to the green mass, mixed.
The filling is ready. The dough is kneaded from the following components:
- flour - 1 kg;
- water - 250-300 ml;
- sunflower oil - 3 tbsp. l .;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- salt - 1 tsp
Cooking process:
- The flour is sifted through a sieve into a wide bowl.
- A small depression is made in the center.
- Add salt.
- Break the egg into water, beat.
- Pour the liquid into the flour and add the oil.
- Knead well on a flat, floured surface.
- Put the dough in a bag, tie and leave for 20-30 minutes. in the fridge.
- The cooled mass is mixed again.
- Cut off a piece and roll out a long thin cylinder.
- Divide the workpiece into equal small parts.
- Roll out the cakes.
- Place the filling in the center with a spoon so that there is free dough for pinching with a pigtail.
- Put a pot of salted water on a fire. The dumplings are dipped in boiling liquid and cooked for 7 minutes.
Serve hot with butter or sour cream
Fresh nettle dumplings with nuts
You can make dumplings with nettle and walnuts, they are not inferior to meat in taste, but the nutritional value is much higher.
Filling:
- walnut kernels - 250 g;
- onions - 3 pcs.;
- chopped nettle - 300 g;
- garlic - 4 cloves;
- salt and pepper to taste;
- ghee - 2 tbsp l. (can be replaced with vegetable);
- egg - 2 pcs.
Preparation of filling for dumplings:
- Finely chop the onion and fry in oil until yellow.
- Garlic is crushed.
- The nuts are chopped with a blender or meat grinder.
- Eggs, garlic and fried onions are added to the nettle mass.
- All mix, salt and pepper to taste.
Set aside the filling for the dumplings and knead the dough. Required Ingredients:
- flour - 500 g;
- water - 150 ml;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- salt - 1 tsp
Knead the dough. Leave it in a bag in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. Then mix again. In 10 minutes. You can mold dumplings discs. Put the filling in the center of each cake, pinch the edges. Can be made in the form of a traditional dumplings or dumplings. Kurze is cooked in salted water.
Before serving, add sour cream or any sauce in kurze
With meat in Polish
For cooking, you can take ready-made dough (300 g) or make it yourself:
- flour - 250 g;
- water - 70 ml;
- egg - 2 pcs.;
- salt - ½ tsp.
The finished dough is wrapped in plastic wrap and left for 20 minutes, then mixed again. They are molded in the form of discs, the size of which is slightly larger than for ordinary dumplings.
Filling:
- nettle - 150 g;
- minced pork - 150 g (you can take another one);
- rendered fat (lard) - 1 tbsp. l .;
- onions - 2 pcs.;
- pepper, salt to taste.
Preparation:
- Boil the nettle in salted water for 10 minutes.
- To get rid of the water, they are thrown into a colander.
- The onions are finely chopped and sautéed in pork fat until golden brown.
- Mix green mass and onions, taste for salt, pepper.
- Add minced meat to the nettle, mix.
The dough is rolled out into a thin disk and cut into circles. They sculpt kurze. Cook in salted water for 10 minutes.
Dumplings are served with sour cream and ghee or replaced with garlic sour cream sauce
Kurze with nettles and cottage cheese
The dough is made in the traditional way, without adding eggs. The mass must be well mixed and kept in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes. You can prepare nettle kurze with the addition of cottage cheese. For the recipe you will need:
- nettle - 300 g;
- egg - 2 pcs.;
- cottage cheese - 200 g;
- vegetable oil or ghee - 2 tbsp. l .;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Preparation of the filling:
- Finely chop the onion, put in a frying pan with oil, and stand until soft.
- The blank from the plant is added to the pan. Stew together with onions, stirring constantly, no longer than five minutes.
- At the end of the process, salt is added, pepper is added.
- Place in a bowl and let cool completely.
- Eggs and cottage cheese are added.
Knead the dough, sculpt dumplings of any convenient shape. Salted water is allowed to boil, kurze is placed, boiled for 7-10 minutes. According to the recipe, you can prepare a semi-finished product in large quantities and place it in the freezer.
Kurze is served with spicy adjika
Conclusion
Nettle dumplings are not only delicious, but also a healthy product that can be prepared without much hassle. In recipes, there is no need to adhere to proportions, you can experiment with spices, add something of your own. Kurze is suitable for a vegetarian diet. The filling consists of grass, so the dish is considered low-calorie and high-vitamin. If you add meat, nuts, cottage cheese, then the kurze will turn out to be more satisfying.
