Dietary lazy dumplings not only add great variety to any diet, but also allow you to treat yourself to something tasty. After all, not every woman can maintain a strict diet for quite a long time, even despite a great desire to lose weight. And this desire appears in almost every woman at different periods of life. However, not everyone who wants to lose weight can strictly adhere to the necessary restrictions. Some give up this thankless task, while others, after a little relaxation, continue to adhere to the required menu.
How to make lazy dumplings low-calorie?
Low-fat cottage cheese is present in many diets, as it is a source of many beneficial vitamins, minerals and trace elements that are absolutely necessary for the normal functioning of the human body.
Dietary lazy dumplings can be prepared in such a way that they contain a minimum of calories. The main secret is to use instant oats, oatmeal or cornmeal instead of flour. Instead of sugar, you can use a substitute or eliminate it altogether. In this case, lazy cottage cheese dumplings can be served with honey, which is allowed in small quantities in many diets. If you have a very strict diet, you can use a recipe in which the lazy dumplings should turn out salty. Thus, sugar will simply not be included in the recipe.
As a last resort, to reduce calorie content, you can use your favorite recipe for preparing a delicious dish, changing the ratio of the main ingredients very slightly. This is very easy and simple to do. You just need to take more low-fat cottage cheese and less flour. In this case, it is better to give preference to dry cottage cheese, which can absorb less flour. After all, if the consistency of the curd mass is not dense enough, you will not be able to form balls and the dish will simply not work out. In addition, it is better to grind the cottage cheese using a regular spoon rather than using a blender, since the consistency of the curd mass largely depends on this. If you use a blender, the mixture will become more liquid and will be able to absorb quite a lot of flour.
How to prepare diet dumplings?
In order to get a tasty and dietary dish, it is advisable to use instant oatmeal instead of flour.
When choosing cottage cheese, you need to make sure that it is fresh, since the taste of the dish largely depends on this factor.
The recipe for dietary dumplings includes the following ingredients:
- low-fat cottage cheese;
- instant oatmeal, about 6 tbsp. l.;
- chicken egg, 1 pc.;
- a pinch of salt;
- 1 tbsp. l. Sahara.
Grind the cottage cheese, egg and sugar with a fork until smooth. You can also rub it through a sieve. After this, we gradually begin to introduce instant oatmeal into the curd mass. If you have a very strict diet, you can do without sugar. If you decide to treat yourself to something tasty, you can add a pinch of vanilla or vanilla sugar to the curd mass to get a pleasant aroma, a little raisins, dried apricots or prunes.
The dough should be dense enough to form into a sausage and cut into small pieces. The sizes of these pieces can be completely different, it depends on the personal preferences of the hostess and her family. If desired, you can form curd balls.
Throw dietary lazy dumplings into lightly salted boiling water. They should be cooked for 3-5 minutes from the moment of boiling, stirring occasionally. This should be done in order to prevent the dumplings from sticking together, especially at the very beginning of the process.
Place the finished dumplings in a dish using a slotted spoon. To prevent the balls from sticking together, you can add a little butter, sour cream or low-fat sour yogurt. For a diet, the latter option is much preferable, since it contains the fewest calories.
With this recipe you can get a tasty and dietary dish that will become a real highlight of your diet.
Semolina is the closest relative of flour, or rather, the same wheat flour only more coarsely ground. Associations with the word “semolina”, of course, are not pleasant for everyone: kindergarten’s lumpy porridge is immediately remembered. And if earlier semolina porridge was almost the main dish in the diet of children, today pediatricians do not favor it. It is difficult to digest and contains few nutrients. But semolina has found wide application in cooking. This is both an excellent breading and an excellent component for dough. Semolina swells well, so any dish, including lazy dumplings, becomes soft with it. It is important that this cereal is inexpensive and available everywhere.
How to choose ingredients
- Groats. It is believed that the more semolina in the composition, the more tender the dumplings will be. Moreover, they will not spread when cooked. To make lazy dumplings with cottage cheese and semolina, it is important to use high-quality cereals made from durum wheat. It cooks better and is less harmful to the figure. After purchasing, the cereal should be poured into a plastic container and stored in a darkened cabinet. Constantly check if there are any bugs in the container; they “love” semolina much more than children.
- Cottage cheese. For this dish you need to choose non-acidic cottage cheese, preferably fatter. Of course, when preparing dietary lazy dumplings without flour and semolina, you can use low-fat cottage cheese, but this will be to the detriment of taste.
If you like the texture of cottage cheese in your dumplings, simply mash it with a spoon when you knead the dough. You can also use a grain product that is so popular today, it will be felt even stronger. If you want the dumplings to be homogeneous, first rub the cottage cheese through a sieve.
Lazy dumplings low calorie recipes
This is a traditional recipe for lazy dumplings with cottage cheese and semolina, where the ratio of flour and cereal is 1:2. Experiment: perhaps, through experience, you will find the optimal combination for yourself, changing the amount of ingredients in one direction or another. A very good dish when on a diet.
You will need:
- cottage cheese - 400 g;
- semolina - 200 g;
- wheat flour - 100 g;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- sugar - 100 g;
- salt - to taste.
Preparation
- Grind the cottage cheese with sugar and eggs.
- Add semolina and salt, form a soft and sticky dough. Place it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Add flour and knead the dough with your hands again. (It is not necessary to add the entire specified amount of flour. You need to watch how much the dough “takes” - it should stick to your hands a little).
- Divide the dough into several parts, make a sausage or rope from each. Cut into small pieces.
- Boil in salted boiling water. Approximate cooking time is 5 minutes after boiling again.
Lazy dumplings made from cottage cheese and semolina are best served with your favorite jam. You can mix sour cream and jam in a gravy boat - you will also get an original “topping”. It will be delicious if you just mix sour cream with sugar.
There are several ways to make original-shaped dumplings with cottage cheese and semolina. First, you can “cut” them with a shot glass or cookie cutter. You just need to roll out the dough thicker, about 4-5 mm. Secondly, you can pinch off small pieces of dough and roll them into “balls”. Plain-shaped lazy dumplings can be decorated by pressing patterns with a fork.
Dietary Variations
For those who jealously watch their figure and count calories, there are lighter versions of the dish. You can make lazy dumplings from cottage cheese without eggs, thereby reducing the fat content.
No added eggs
You will need:
- cottage cheese - 500 g;
- sugar - 50 g;
- wheat flour - 50 g;
- potato starch - 25 g;
- salt - to taste.
Preparation
- Mix sugar with salt and starch.
- Grind the cottage cheese with sugar.
- Add flour and knead the dough. The more thoroughly you knead it, the better the result will be.
- Form the dough into sausages and cut them into pieces.
- Boil in boiling water with added salt.
Without flour and semolina
You need to understand that you won’t be able to make lazy dumplings without flour at all. Something must connect the cottage cheese with the rest of the ingredients. Therefore, this recipe does not use wheat flour, but it is replaced with oatmeal. The calories in these two types of flour are approximately equal, but oatmeal is much healthier. It contains a large amount of micro- and macroelements, fiber and vitamins. So such dumplings can safely be called dietary.
You will need:
- cottage cheese - 400 g;
- oat flakes - 180 g;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- sugar - 100 g.
Preparation
- Grind oatmeal in a blender or coffee grinder until it becomes flour. If you have ready-made oatmeal, use it.
- Grind the cottage cheese with eggs and sugar.
- Knead the dough by thoroughly mixing the sugar-curd mixture with oatmeal.
- Form dumplings by cutting ropes of dough into pieces.
- Boil in plenty of salted water for about 4 minutes after floating.
What to serve with dietary lazy dumplings? Light yogurt works great. Nuts and pieces of fresh or canned fruit will be very useful “companions” for such a dish.
By the way, the calorie content of lazy dumplings with cottage cheese, even classic ones, is not so high - a little more than 200 kcal per 100 grams. Moreover, the dish contains a large amount of carbohydrates. This, again, speaks in favor of eating the dish for breakfast - you will definitely have enough energy and strength until lunch.
The recipe for lazy dumplings with semolina allows freezing. There is no need to defrost the dumplings before cooking - just throw them into boiling water and wait until they are ready.
At first glance, it seems that for those people who want to maintain their figure, dumplings with cottage cheese are contraindicated, but is this true? It turns out not! There are dietary lazy dumplings that you can eat without fear of losing your figure or gaining extra pounds. The secret of such dumplings is incredibly simple: they are simply made without flour and without semolina. Only using cottage cheese and rolled oats, which perfectly replaces any flour, and has much fewer calories.
Cooking time: 40 minutes
Calorie content: 210 kcal per 100 grams
Light lazy dumplings are a real delicacy for those who are trying to maintain their figure. After all, their incredible taste is almost the same as that of ordinary ones. Nevertheless, the caloric content is an order of magnitude lower than that of traditional ones. Therefore, you can eat them without fear of losing your figure.
- To start, we take cottage cheese. It must be low in fat, otherwise we won’t be able to make dietary dumplings. We rub the cottage cheese through a sieve or grind it using a spoon or blender. It should be very small, the smaller the better, the tastier the dish.
- Now break the eggs into the cottage cheese and add the required amount of rolled oats. It is better to grind the Hercules in a coffee grinder to flour before adding it. So, it will be more pliable and will not spoil the appearance of our product. By the way, oatmeal can be used in many other recipes, successfully replacing high-calorie wheat flour with it.
- Mix the resulting curd mass well first with a spoon, then you can try it with your hands. The mass should be of such a consistency that you can make small lazy dumplings from it. It is important to make small dumplings, so they will cook much easier and faster.
- After the dumplings are stuck on, all that remains is to cook them. To do this, boil water in a saucepan, and then carefully, one by one, add all our resulting dietary dumplings. During the cooking process, it is better not to move far from the stove, but make sure that the dumplings do not run away or stick to the bottom of the pan.
- We cook these delicious dumplings in water for 2-3 minutes from the moment they emerge, until they are completely ready. Place freshly cooked dumplings on a plate. Before serving, they can be topped with delicious low-fat sour cream, low-calorie yogurt, or served along with dietary fruits and berries.
Advice: These dumplings with cottage cheese without flour and semolina are best served with fruits such as apples, peaches and bananas. For berries, preference is given to strawberries, raspberries and blueberries. Although, of course, the choice of what to serve with remains up to the one who cooks.
If you cook dumplings according to this recipe, then there is practically nothing high-calorie in them, except eggs. This is because it is virtually impossible to prepare lazy dumplings without eggs, semolina and flour, so you will have to resort to little tricks. However, due to the fact that all other products are replaced with lower-calorie ones, this recipe can be perfect for people who like to eat, but limit themselves in food. Thanks to these dumplings, you won’t have to do this, because you can eat them in any quantity and they won’t become a burden. Such dumplings will always be desired and not only because they are made from the best ingredients, but they are also quite healthy and rich in calcium. It is very correct to cook such dumplings more often.
Cook deliciously and enjoy your meal!
Hello my dears!
Remember, in my last article I promised to give you a healthy and tasty surprise?
So, this is it! Lazy dumplings with cottage cheese, without sugar, with whole grain flour.
Unexpectedly, but still.
I tried these diet lazy dumplings for the first time last year and really liked them. Now if I cook, it’s only like this.
I like these dumplings better than classic ones, because whole grain flour has a much brighter and richer taste.
Although you can also use regular flour. Technology-wise, nothing changes.
I don't add sugar to them, and when serving, drizzle with honey, Greek yogurt and sprinkle with fruits or berries.
By the way, Italians add parmesan to such dumplings and serve them as a main course.
One day I sinned and topped the dumplings with heavy cream and honey. And after the dumplings were finished, there was some dressing left on the plate. I felt sorry for pouring it out. And it dawned on me.
Once upon a time, in the distant childhood past, our grandmother had a cow in our village. Accordingly, we distilled milk with our own separator (for those who don’t know, this is a unit that separates cream from milk), made our own sour cream, butter, cottage cheese, etc.
So, the most delicacy in the village at that time was to pour fresh, still warm, village sour cream the color of baked milk, mix it with natural honey and dip fresh white bread into it. You have no idea what a thrill it is!
In short, I got about the same buzz by crumbling bread into this gravy, which was left over after dumplings. True, the bread was whole grain and there was cream instead of homemade sour cream, but it was so similar!
Now I’m thinking about whether I should sin again... When else, if not September 1, should I take a trip to my childhood.
And also (apparently, in my old age I was completely sick) and I decided to cook Greek corn for the first time in my life. No one cooks it here, but everyone bakes it on the grill. After consulting with my mother in advance, I cooked it. I have never eaten such sweet and juicy corn before. Greece was a pleasant surprise once again. I didn’t think that corn in this climate would be so tasty.
But let's get back to our lazy dumplings.
Although they won’t take me back to my childhood (somehow we weren’t lazy in our family - we always made regular ones)), but they are very tasty and don’t look like ordinary lazy dumplings.
Healthy lazy dumplings with cottage cheese
We will need:
- cottage cheese, dry, ≈9% fat - 500 gr.
- eggs - 2 pcs.
- salt - 1 pinch (I don’t add salt)
- whole grain flour - 100 gr.
Preparation:
If you want, you can prepare diet ice cream according to one of these recipes and serve dumplings with it: . It will turn out to be a completely different delicious story.
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