Cheese Dumplings

Name: Cheese Dumplings (Lenivye Vareniki)
Cuisine: Russian
Ingredients: 500 g/1¼ lb/2½ cups ricotta cheese or cottage cheese; 500 g/1¼ lb/2½ cups ricotta cheese or cottage cheese; 2 eggs; 200 g/7 oz/1¾ cups plain white (all-purpose) flour; 2 litres/3½ pints/8 cups water; 25 g/1 oz/2 tbsp butter; salt; smetana or crème fraîche, to serve; smetana or crème fraîche, to serve

Lenivye Vareniki

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from My Russian Grandmother's Kitchen

By Elena Makhonko

Published 2015

About

Cottage cheese, Italian ricotta, or another fresh cheese combines well in these delicate but simple Russian dumplings, which are very similar to Italian gnocchi.

Ingredients

500 g/1¼ lb/2½ cups ricotta cheese or cottage cheese

Europe
Russia
Side dish
Vegetarian
Low carb
Low sugar
Low sodium

Method

Put the cheese, eggs and a pinch of salt in a bowl and mix well together. Add the flour and fold in until it is thoroughly combined. The dough should be soft and form into a ball. Remove the ball from the bowl and put on a floured surface or board.
Cut the dough into eight equal pieces and roll each piece into a sausage shape about as thick as a finger. Cut eac

Energy 803kcal/3328kJ; Protein 11.8g; Carbohydrate 38.9g, of which sugars 0.8g; Fat 68g, of which saturates 41.3g; Cholesterol 227mg; Calcium 208mg; Fibre 1.6g; Sodium 450mg.