"STEEMIT CULLINARY CHALLENGE #38: Polish Vegan Dumplings with filling from lentils." Old but good recipe from generation to generation. 😊

[babettxx]

Welcome everyone in this beautiful day!😊

I'm happy that I can made recipe for Steemit Culinary Challenge once again! In last one I took 3rd place, so I'm so really happy! Today I wanna show you recipe from generation to generation in my family for Polish Dumplings. In my country we call it Pierogi. They are absolutely fantasic in taste and my whole country love them! 😍We make them here in many ways with milions types of fillings for every occasion, especially for Xmas. Salty version, as well as sweet version with season fruits like raspberries, blueberries, strawberries and many others. The most popular are "Russian Dumplings" (it's only name of them :D) which they are with potatoe an white cheese filling. For Xmas my mom do them with mushroms. Honestly you can make them with fillings that you like. So I decided to made them with lentils centre! And guess what?
I NEVER ATE THIS BEFORE WITH LENTILS! So yea, this was my first time when I tasted them and I can tell you that they are really tasty! 🙂🙂





I also like them with soy sauce and lighty fried onion.






For preparing portion for 3 people you will need:

• one glass of sifted flour (I used special for dumplings)
• 1/3 cup of warm water
• a half tsp of curcuma (for colour)
• sprinkle of salt
  
  
  For preparing filling you will need:
• one cup of soaked lentils (I soak them for 9 hours)
• a half onion
• cup of hot water
• two tbsp of oil
• two garlic cloves
• parsley
• soy sauce (as much as you want)
• one tsp of balsamic vinegar
• a bit of lime juice (or lemon)
  
  
  Spices
• himalayan salt
• ground pepper
• cucruma
• xylitol
• cumin (optional)
  
  
  
  
  
  First of all, we need to start preparing our filling:
  
  
• into the pot add oil, chopped onion and start lightly frying it.

• add soaked lentils, cup of water, spieces and lime juice. Start boil it uder cover about 20 minutes

• after that time, add parsley and crushed garlic cloves, mix everything

We can start preparing dough for duplings:

• Into bowl add flour, add salt and in the middle make hole like in the picture

• gently add mixed water with curcuma

• then add oil into it

• by hand start mixing dough

• take the dough out of bowl and put on the table (it is more comfortable)

You need to remember that the dough must be malleable like silly putty. This allows you to form dumplings much better. And also hold whole dough under cover, otherwise it will start dry out!


Okay, so we have done our dough and filling so we can start forming our dumplings
First of all it's more comfortable, if you'll form dough in little balls, then roll them on table. Add your filling on it, fold it in half and stick ends together. Otherwise during boil all filling will out of dumplings! And we don't want that situation!😁

• ready dumplings put in boiled water with oil (it will prevent sticking dumplings to each other) and wait till dumplings swim out.

And that's all guys! If you wish you can spice your dumlings with salt and herbal pepper which make fenomenal flavour and taste! Or like me you can add lighty fry onion on top of it and soak a little bit in soy sauce! Mmmmm delicious! 😋😋😋





I hope you guys enjoy my post!
Lots of love for you!💙💙💙
Your @babettxx 😊



Check my last post for Steemit-Culinary-Challenge where I took 3rd place with my Vegan Rafaello and Chocolates Truffles💙💙💙

image: @woman-onthe-wing

Comments

[megnteglbjaerg]

mmm! Its been forever since I ate perogies. My moms side of the family is from Ukraine and they also filled them with cheese and potato, or sometimes prunes, or sauerkraut. Your's look delicious! I just might have to make some soon, veganised like you have done! Thanks for the wonderful memory.

[babettxx]

Thank you! That's nice to hear that through my recipe I brought up your memories :)

[globalfoodbook]

They look really tasty.

[babettxx]

Thank you :)

[tioluis]

sweet I love that hand made wrapper and how you link the past post :D hahaha <3
Great job!
Soy tu tio

[babettxx]

Thank youuuu! ❤️ 😄

[woman-onthe-wing]

Oooh @babettxx I just love the look of these dumplings! I am a big lentil eater myself so this recipe would be perfect for my tastes :-) It's funny you mention silly putty.. I used to have some but forgot about it until now! You instructions are really clear and lovely presentation again. What a wonderful vegan recipe to inspire others! Good luck!

[babettxx]

Thank you! I'm really doing the best I can with all presentation for others, so I think it will be much easier for them when they want do this at home with instructions like I made :)

[alinalisa]

That looks YUM! :D Lentils are so versatile. I love them. :) I included them also in my entry for this weeks entry: https://steemit.com/food/@alinalisa/steemit-culinary-challenge-38-simple-healthy-vegan-lentil-apple-salad

Your take on lentils is really great. I never had polish food before. But I know a few things and these polish dumplings are for me the most interesting ones. :)

Really good post with good instructions @babettxx! I wish you good luck for the challenge! ;)

[babettxx]

Oh Thank You very much! It's nice to hear that you like them! You should try them in home! It's really simple to preparing but most time you will spend to make and gluing them, always when I made them my mom and my siblings are helping me :D But I think that time is worth it. :) Your salad looks also very good and tasty! But I didn't try combination lentils and apple! 😲 Now I have recipe so I will try this salad :) Good luck for you too! ❤️

[alinalisa]

I can understand that preparing the dumplings takes a lot of time. But as it looks so delicious I'm assured that it is worth it as you say. :)

Thank you! I hope you enjoy the salad @babettxx! :)

[babettxx]

Yay thank you! For sure :)

[heart-to-heart]

Wow! I am such a lucky judge this week! These look delicious! I love Polish food and have had my fair share of perogies I must say. Adding lentils in sounds delicious, I will have to give it a try ;) Congrats on the win last week! Results will be posted soon <3 Thank you for entering!