Help Please! Dumplings without suet?

taplady

Pink-winged wrote:

Hi,

For anyone else looking for suet free dumplings there's a good recipe on this thread: Really tasty, low fat, fluffy, yummy dumplings

Pink

I made these last week and they're really nice! :j I halved the recipe because it made loads!;)

Luna69

Has anyone got any recipes to make dumplings to go with mince that doesn't need suet? I have made some before using butter, but they didn't fluff up that much and tasted a tad too buttery. I haven't made dumplings for ages, used to use packet mixes. I bought a box of vegetable suet some time ago, but noticed it was nearly half hydrogenated veg oil!! So if possible is there any other way?

Thanks
Yvonne

Pink.

Hi Luna,

We had a recent thread on dumplings without suet that should help so I've merged your thread with it to keep all the suggestions together.

Pink

Luna69

Thanks, sorry was in a rush and didn't check first... am trying out the egg version.. fingers crossed!

Yvonne

Gingernutmeg

I use matzo meal when I make dumplings - they come out much lighter than the traditional suet dumplings, and I think they are much tastier. I get the matzo meal from Sainsburys and I just use the recipe on the box, adding a bit of chopped shallot and some fresh or dried herbs, depending on what I'm putting them with.

Luna69

Just made the egg ones and they went down very well, so thank you op.
I'm not familiar with matzo meal, what is that?

Yvonne

Gingernutmeg

Matzo meal is wheatflour and water made into crumbs - it looks like breadcrumbs but it has no yeast in it. It's a traditional Jewish ingredient and is most often used to make the dumplings for chicken soup. I like using it because it makes nice fluffy dumplings that are fairly low in fat. I don't like using suet at all - the vegetarian stuff especially is full of hydrogenated fats that I prefer to try and avoid.

Matzo dumplings take a bit more preparation than ordinary ones - they have to be poached first, for example, but I think it's worth it My boyfriend loves them and we have them with soup and stews. The recipe I use is:

1 egg
1 good tablespoon of butter or margarine, melted
4-5 tbsp of stock (to match whatever I'm serving them with)
Pinch of salt and pepper
Scant 3oz of Matzo meal
Some chopped shallot or really finely chopped onion
Chopped fresh or dried herbs

Whisk up the egg and add the butter, stock, salt, pepper and the onion and herbs. Stir in the matzo meal (the mixture will look really sloppy) then put it in the fridge for an hour or so - I sometimes make this the day before and it's fine. When you're ready to cook the dumplings, get a large pan of water boiling, and add either some salt, or a stock cube. I use this quantity of mixture to serve two of us and I find it makes four really huge dumplings, six good sized 'stew' dumplings or about ten 'soup' sized dumplings - this mixture is deceiving, the dumplings look tiny but they swell up like anything when you poach them! You need to poach the dumplings in a covered pan for between 30 -40 mins, depending on the size. Once they're done they can be frozen or cooled, and then reheated in whatever soup or stew you want to use them in (although I'd recommend something with plenty of 'juice'), but defrost them thoroughly before cooking.

Hope this helps (and I apologise for using pounds and ounces - despite being brought up using kilos etc at school I was taught to cook in Imperial, and it's what works best for me!).

Forgot to add - these aren't 'kosher' dumplings, just my adaptation of the recipe - hope they don't offend anyone

Chollita

Is there an alternative to using suet? I would love to make dumplings, but somehow doubt you can get vegetable suet in Spain ...

(PS want to terrorise Argentinian OH with lots of British cooking hehehe)

Penelope_Penguin

I'm sure someone mentioned that they get really fluffy dumplings using butter. Hang on while I search for the link.........try this one Dumplings?

HTH, Penny. x

Jolaaled

I'm a veggie and love dumplings...
i just buy the vegetarian suet (Atora..or the tesco equivalent).

Seem to come out lush...great for this colder weather too.