Vareniki are meatless dumplings, as men say. They are too sensitive to meat products, everyone knows this. Although vareniki deserve a better relationship, if only because they have a lot of fillings.
The most common - with boiled potatoes, with cottage cheese .And with cottage cheese you can make both sweet dumplings, and salty. A special role in salted vareniki with cottage cheese is played by the addition of sliced green onions. For the fortress fillings in curd vareniki add a raw egg, and for taste - a spoonful of sour cream.
Vareniki with stuffing from raw potatoes and fat are very tasty. To prepare the filling, the raw potatoes are ground in a meat grinder and squeezed out excess juice. Then grind the same meat grinder fat, you can take a salty, then the filling is not soluble, or fresh. Salo and potatoes are taken in the same proportions. Grind half a bulb and add two chopped garlic cloves, black ground pepper. These dumplings cook like dumplings, at least three minutes after boiling.
You can prepare the vareniki with mushrooms, for this, mushrooms( preferably fresh ones) should be ground in a meat grinder, and add the green onions and sour cream.
Vareniki with fish can be called pelmeni, from a male point of view. They are prepared from fish fillets, ground several times. If the fish is lean, add lard, as well as onions and garlic, as in meat dumplings.
Special kind of dumplings - "hangover" vareniki, with sauerkraut filling .The sour filling is akin to a pickle, it facilitates a hangover state. Cabbage is best chopped to be easy to sculpt. If there is a desire to diversify this dish, add crushed fresh fat to the filling, in proportion to 1/3 or 1/4 of the volume of cabbage. Get delicious!
And, finally, vareniki with fruit and berry stuffing .Who has not heard of the famous dumplings with cherries! Dough for these vareniki is slightly different, because in the composition instead of water use kefir, and add butter or sunflower oil. Manufacturing technology is no different, for the filling use fresh or frozen berries without cherries, sprinkled with sugar.
There is a small nuance: the berries are covered with sugar and let stand, the resulting juice is drained, use it when serving dumplings on the table as a sauce. For the filling of such vareniki you can use fresh or frozen raspberries, black currants, strawberries, blueberries, even gooseberries. Sugar is better to add in the form of powder, sprinkling the bottom of the lozenge, and put the berries on top. Boil not for long, after boiling for two minutes, no more. Serve with berry sauce and sour cream.