Steamed yeast dumplings: always puffy

The dumplings will be juicy, fluffy, and voluminous if steamed. And if you don't have a special device, it's not a problem, because you can use a frying pan and cheesecloth. To make the dough tender, it should be cooked with milk.

The idea of making steamed dumplings with milk and yeast is published on the Instagram page of food blogger Vita with the nickname vitala_foodblog.

Ingredients for the dough:

• 500 ml of warm milk
• 50 g of live yeast
• 1.5 tsp of salt
• 2 tbsp of sugar
• 2 tbsp of vegetable oil
• 800-900 g +- flour

Ingredients for the cheese filling:

• 400 g of cottage cheese 9%
• 100 g of sugar
• 10 g of vanilla sugar
• 100 g of raisins
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp. l. starch

Method of preparation of the filling:

1. Beat the cottage cheese, sugar, eggs, vanilla sugar, and starch in a blender.

2. Rinse the raisins in advance with hot water and dry them.

3. Add to the cottage cheese.

Ingredients for fried cabbage:

• 500 g of fresh cabbage
• 1 onion
• 1 small carrot
• oil, salt, pepper

Method of cooking cabbage:

1. Finely chop the fresh cabbage.

2. Fry in vegetable oil for 10 minutes under the lid.

3. Stir occasionally.

4. Then add the chopped onion and grated carrots.

5. Season with salt and pepper and fry until tender for another 10-15 minutes.

Ingredients for the meat filling:

• 150 g of smoked pork breast
• 1 large onion
• salt, pepper

Method of preparation:

1. Fry the breast first, then the onion until tender, season with salt and pepper to taste.

2. When serving, pour melted butter and sugar over the dumplings.

Method of making the dough:

1. Add salt, sugar, yeast, oil and flour (sifted) to warm milk. Add the flour gradually.

2. The dough should be elastic and soft, cover it with a bowl and let it rest for 5 minutes.

3. At this time, prepare a double boiler or a frying pan with cheesecloth and a lid.

4. Divide the dough into pieces of about 50 g.

5. Send the dumplings to cook in batches.

6. Cook for 7 minutes under the lid.

7. If the dumplings are smaller, cook for 5 minutes. While the first batch is cooking, you can mold them.

8. Pour the melted butter over the cooked dumplings with cottage cheese and sprinkle with sugar.

9. Pour butter over the cabbage dumplings and add smoked breast and onions. Add fresh dill at the end.