Even at her own ideal hostess there was such a situation in life when the food was over in the refrigerator and there was absolutely no time to cook dinner. In this case, a dumpling casserole in the oven will always come to the rescue. You can't just cook in minutes original dish, but also delight the family with a delicious and fragrant dinner. Then, of course, they will be surprised to find out how quickly and from what you made a casserole.
Do not lose the recipe, it will come in handy more than once and help out. This casserole is called lazy wife”, perhaps because it does not take much effort to cook if you use ready-made frozen dumplings bought in advance at the supermarket. With such a dish, it is not a shame to meet guests if they unexpectedly called and announced their arrival. No one will ever surprise a hostess who is armed with such a dish. The main thing is that in the freezer there is a pack of dumplings in stock. And for those who have pots, you can cook.
Taste Info Unsweetened casseroles / Vareniki, dumplings
Ingredients
- chicken eggs - 1 pc.;
- sour cream (fat content 15-20%) - 120 ml;
- salt and ground black pepper - to your taste;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- vegetable oil - 2 tsp;
- dumplings - 300 g;
- hard cheese - 100 g.
How to cook dumplings casserole "Lazy Wife"
Start by preparing the filling. Crack an egg into a bowl, add sour cream, a little salt and pepper. You can replace sour cream with mayonnaise in this recipe. At this stage, if you wish, you can add any aromatic seasonings and spices - dried dill, parsley, basil, thyme, oregano, ground paprika, coriander, Italian or Provence herbs.
Mix everything thoroughly until smooth with a fork or kitchen whisk.
Peel the onion, wash and cut into small cubes. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the onion until golden brown.
Take a baking dish and lightly brush it with a pastry brush. vegetable oil. Now send for 1-2 minutes in an oven preheated to 180-200 degrees so that the form warms up well. If this is not done, then the dumplings, which are laid out frozen, will stick to the bottom during baking. Then it will not be possible to beautifully remove the casserole from the mold, cut it and serve it to the table.
Transfer to the form of dumplings (tightly to each other in one layer), a little salt and pepper. Spread the fried onion evenly over the top.
Now pour over the entire surface of the dumplings with filling, it should, if possible, go into each hollow place. In order for dumplings to bake well and not be dry, they must be completely covered with filling. If you didn’t have enough of it, then mix another egg with sour cream.
On a coarse grater, rub the cheese and crush the entire surface of the future casserole with it. This will turn out ruddy crispy cheese crust. If you want the top of the casserole to be softer and more tender, then sprinkle with cheese 5-10 minutes before the dish is ready.
Send the form to the oven. Bake at 180 degrees for 30 minutes.
After the required time has passed, it remains only to transfer the contents of the form to a beautiful flat dish. Delicious and juicy lazy wife dumpling casserole is ready. Although it would be more correct to call her "Cunning Wife", because of such simple products prepared an excellent dinner. Cut the casserole into portioned pieces; when serving, you can sprinkle with chopped dill and parsley.
You can diversify the casserole by adding mushrooms, vegetables (tomatoes, sweet bell pepper, cauliflower), spinach, canned corn or peas.
Dumpling casserole is a recipe that belongs to the category of simple. Such a dish is often called "Lazy Wife", but it can rightfully be called a royal dinner.
It is simple and very easy to prepare. Try it and see for yourself. Your loved ones will be pleasantly surprised by the new way of making dumplings.
Pelmeni casserole "Lazy wife"
Fast and very tasty dish prepared from the simplest products, and the cooking process itself does not take much time and effort. 
Ingredients:
- dumplings (frozen) - 800 g
- egg - 4 pcs.
- onion - 2 pcs. (medium size)
- hard cheese - 100 g
- sour cream, can be replaced with mayonnaise - 4 tbsp. l.
- ground pepper and salt - to your taste;
Cooking:
Turn on the oven so that it warms up to 200C.
Take an onion, cut it into medium-sized cubes and send it to a frying pan with vegetable oil. Fry it for 2-3 minutes until golden brown. 
The next step is to prepare the filling for the dumplings casserole. Crack four eggs into a suitable bowl. Add to them 4 tbsp. l. with a slide, sour cream or mayonnaise. Add salt and pepper to taste. Beat everything with a whisk or fork until a homogeneous mixture is obtained. The filling for the casserole is ready. 
Take the form in which you will cook the casserole, grease it with vegetable oil and put it in a preheated oven for 1 - 2 minutes. Heat so that the frozen dumplings do not stick to the mold during cooking.
Put frozen dumplings in a warmed form. Distribute so that they are placed in one layer. Salt, pepper to taste. 
Top with fried onions. 
Fill dumplings with onions. She must cover them completely. If it is not enough, it is better to cook more. 
Grate hard cheese on a coarse grater. You can immediately fill the filling with hard cheese before you send the form to the oven. In this version, a crispy cheese crust will turn out on top. But it is better to sprinkle the cheese 20 minutes before the dish is ready, then the crust will be a little softer.
Send dumplings with onions and filling to the oven. The total baking time is 40 minutes at 200C.
20 minutes before the end of cooking, remove the casserole from dumplings and sprinkle it with grated cheese. 
Put in the oven for another 20 minutes.
Delicious and juicy dumplings casserole is ready.
Dumpling casserole, recipe with milk
Such an easy-to-prepare dish, like the Lazy Wife casserole, can be decorated no worse than a restaurant one. To do this, you need lettuce, paprika and a little imagination.
Ingredients:
- dumplings - 400 g
- milk - 1 stack.
- egg - 4 pcs.
- hard grated cheese - 80 - 100 g
- tomato sauce- 2 tbsp. l.
- paprika - to taste
- salt - to taste
- butter
- lettuce leaves - to decorate the dish
Cooking:
Crack 4 eggs into a suitable bowl. Salt. Add milk and some grated cheese. Mix. 
Grease a baking dish with butter. Put frozen dumplings in it, as in the first recipe in one layer. Fill with prepared filling. Top with cheese and garnish with tomato sauce. 
Send the form to the oven, preheated to 180C. Bake until done for 30 minutes. Serve the finished casserole in portions.
Put lettuce leaves decorated with paprika and a piece of ready-made casserole on a flat plate. Well, why not a restaurant dish?
Dumpling casserole without cheese
According to this recipe, dumplings casserole turns out not only very tasty, but also beautiful. 
Ingredients:
- dumplings - 150 - 200 g
- sour cream - 100 ml
- garlic - 4 cloves
- dill, parsley - 1 bunch each
- egg - 2 pcs.
- butter - piece
- semolina- a little (to cover the bottom of the form)
Cooking:
For cooking, it is best to use the chopping bowl that comes with most blenders. Place eggs in a bowl, add garlic. There also put parsley and dill. Add sour cream and grind everything. The casserole dressing is ready.
PS: if you didn’t have a blender at hand, then you need to chop the garlic and herbs as finely as possible and then mix them with eggs and sour cream until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
Grease a baking dish with butter and sprinkle with semolina. Put the dumplings in it first in one layer and pour over the filling. Then lay out the second layer and cover it with the rest of the filling.
Place the dish in the oven, heated to 180C. Bake 30 minutes.
Dumpling casserole with sauce
Ingredients:
- frozen dumplings - 500 g
- ketchup - 200 g
- sour cream - 200 g
- water - 200 ml
- hard cheese - 150 g
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- olive oil - 2 tbsp. l. (for mold lubrication)
Cooking:
Prepare the sauce: in a suitable bowl, mix ketchup with sour cream. Add water, salt and pepper to taste. Mix until smooth.
Grease the mold olive oil. Put dumplings in it in two layers. Cover them with prepared sauce.
Put in an oven preheated to 180C for 40 minutes. 5 minutes before the end of cooking, remove the casserole from dumplings. Sprinkle with grated cheese and send for another 5 minutes in the oven. Dumplings casserole with sauce is ready
Dumplings casserole with champignons and pumpkin
According to this recipe, a delicious wonderful dish is obtained, which is suitable even for romantic dinner. It's just dumpling lasagna. As a filling, prepare bechamel sauce. 
Ingredients:
- dumplings - 600 g
- champignons - 300 g
- tomatoes (mashed) - 100 ml
- milk - 600 ml
- pumpkin - 150 g
- butter - 50 g
- flour - 2 tbsp. l. (no top)
- parmesan cheese - 30 g
- greens - to taste
- salt, pepper - to taste
- vegetable oil - for frying
Cooking:
First, prepare the sauce for pouring. Melt butter in a frying pan, add flour. Stirring constantly, lightly fry Gradually add milk, stirring constantly. Boil the sauce until it is empty. The consistency should be like not too fat sour cream.
In a frying pan with a little oil, fry the chopped onion and the champignons and pumpkin cut into small pieces. Salt, pepper to taste. 
Lay out the ingredients in a baking dish in layers: first dumplings. Drizzle them with the prepared sauce. Next, lay out a layer of vegetables stewed with mushrooms. Drizzle with mashed tomatoes. Sprinkle with grated parmesan. 
Good mood and bon appetit!
For all important questions, please refer to the recipe
Recipe for casserole "Lazy wife"
Kitchenware: baking dish; deep bowl; whisk; pan; tea spoon; tablespoon; scapula; cutting board; silicone brush; knife; grater; kitchen towel; tacks; cutting board; serving utensils.
Ingredients
How to choose the right ingredients
- Quality dumplings- this is a semi-finished product of category A and B, in which the meat content is at least 60%.
- When buying, pay attention to the composition. If the manufacturer does not decipher in it which spices were used for manufacturing, then they may contain flavor enhancers, emulsifiers, and even dyes.
- To check the freshness of the product, shake the pack, semi-finished products should not be stuck together.
- If before buying it is possible to evaluate the color of the semi-finished product, be sure to do it. In quality products, the dough is white, not yellow or with a green tint.
To do this culinary product, you need to take cheese durum varieties.
The most suitable options are the following cheeses:
- Parmesan;
- Gouda;
- Adam;
- Russian;
- Kostroma.
Step by step cooking casserole with dumplings
Bon appetit!
Video recipe for cooking "Lazy wife"
Your attention is invited to a video in which you can once again visually familiarize yourself with all the stages of cooking such a simple, but very tasty dish.
How to serve the dish and with what
This dish is very satisfying and is perfect for a family dinner when everyone is hungry and there is not much time to do something. Also, if guests suddenly decide to come to you, you can surprise them with such a casserole, and do not hesitate, they will not only be pleasantly surprised, but will also give you many compliments, because such pastries are really very tasty. And you can supplement it with various sauces, salads or just beautifully chopped vegetables.
Other possible cooking and filling options
Such a dish can be baked not only from dumplings. if you love pasta try the vermicelli casserole. And if you can’t resist buckwheat and love it in any form, then “buckwheat casserole” will great dish for lunch or dinner.
lovers sweet pastries can make a very fragrant and tender - cottage cheese casserole with a banana -. And if you like apples, then - cottage cheese casserole with apples - you will definitely like it.
Have you tried the Lazy Wife casserole yet? If not, I advise you, it's really very tasty and fast. In addition, ordinary dumplings turn into real ones. holiday dish. Share your impressions, leave your feedback and write comments.
Casserole - very simple and all favourite dish, which is prepared by mixing and baking almost any product. And if there is nothing left in your refrigerator except semi-finished products, and your family members require something unusual for dinner, then dumplings casserole will always save the day and literally everyone will like it. Next, consider a few detailed recipes This is quite a hearty, inexpensive and very tasty dish.
Why you should cook dumplings casserole
The main advantages of this product are the speed of preparation and the absence of a complex set of products. If you look even deeper, this dish can be safely considered dietary. According to the classic recipe, it includes: cheese, meat, mushrooms, cream (sour cream), eggs - these are proteins that a person needs as a building material. Vegetable and animal fats are also needed for the proper functioning of the endocrine system.
Dough is complex carbohydrates that provide the body with energy for a long time. Vegetables are healthy fiber, as well as an impressive set of micro and macro elements. Based on the foregoing, dumpling casserole is a very inexpensive, quick, complete and healthy dinner for the whole family, cooked in a minimum of time.
The algorithm for making a classic dumpling casserole is as follows:
- ingredients are laid out in layers in the form, in which frozen dumplings form the basis;
- the workpiece is poured with sauce and sprinkled with grated cheese.
The entire cooking process takes place in the oven. There is a recipe that does not even require an oven: everything is done on the stove in an ordinary frying pan.
Recipe for dumplings casserole "Lazy wife"
"Lazy Wife" classic recipe for oven, which will require a standard set of products from the cook.
- eggs: medium 2 pcs. small -3 pcs.;
- sour cream or mayonnaise - 250 gr.;
- cheese of any hard varieties 100-150 gr.;
- - 1 medium size head;
- frozen dumplings - 500-800 gr.
Salt and spices are added to taste. Greens - for decoration ready meal. The whole process of cooking casseroles can be divided into four stages.
Stage #1
Onions should be peeled and finely chopped. Then place in a saucepan and sauté in oil until transparent. While the onion is fried, make a “filling” by beating eggs, sour cream (mayonnaise or cream), salt and spices in a deep bowl, add according to your own taste preferences.
Stage #2
Prepare an ovenproof baking dish. Lubricate the walls of the mold with butter (vegetable) oil and put it in the oven to warm up. While the mold is heating, grate or shred the hard cheese.
Stage 3
Take the mold out of the oven. Spread the frozen dumplings in a single layer. The second layer of the casserole is fried onions. The form is filled with "egg-sour cream" mass. Sprinkle the top of the product generously with grated cheese.
Stage 4
A dumpling casserole is being prepared in an oven heated to 180 ° C. Depending on the number of ingredients, the cooking time varies from 30 to 40 minutes. The casserole is served as an independent dish or with a side dish of vegetables: fresh or canned. If desired, decorate the product with a sprig of fresh herbs, a slice of lime slices.
Pelmeni and mushroom casserole
This dish is a modified version of the Lazy Wife casserole, which was supplemented with mushrooms. Consider the recipe for mushroom dumplings casserole in the oven, with a photo of each process. To prepare this dish you will need:
- 1 kg of frozen dumplings;
- 0.5 kg;
- 3 chicken eggs medium size;
- 150 grams of hard cheese;
- 3 tbsp sour cream of any fat content;
- Salt, spices, herbs - to taste.
Preparing food does not take much time, so the process of preparing dumplings and mushrooms casseroles should be started by warming up the oven.
Wash and cut the mushrooms into thin slices. 
Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. 
Thoroughly mix eggs with sour cream in a bowl. The resulting mixture should be salted, seasoned with freshly ground pepper, your favorite spices. To add color, you can add a teaspoon of paprika or turmeric and finely chopped dill to the mixture. 
Grease a baking dish liberally with vegetable oil. 
Collect the casserole. Pour the frozen dumplings into the bottom of the mold. The second layer is chopped (not fried) mushrooms. Pour over the egg-sour cream mixture and sprinkle with grated cheese. Place the form in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 35 - 45 minutes.
Sprinkle the finished casserole with finely chopped green onion. Serve hot.
Bake in preheated oven until cooked through (about 45 minutes). It can be served both hot and cold.
In this publication, we have considered only the most simple and popular recipes for making dumplings casseroles. In fact, there are many more of them, but they all differ only in the presence of additional ingredients: tomatoes, ham, etc. As you can see, you can cook a hearty and tasty dish without even spending a lot of time preparing the ingredients. Use everything that is in the refrigerator, fantasize, “combine the incongruous” and you will definitely succeed!
Video recipe for a delicious dumpling casserole
Every day, women enter into an unequal struggle with time. There is so much when you wait, and so little when you are in a hurry. After work, I want to relax, and the household is waiting for a satisfying and delicious dinner. A dumpling casserole in the oven will come to your rescue. Each housewife has her own secret recipe for preparing such a dish in a hurry.
Many housewives call dumplings casserole "Lazy wife". This name is primarily associated with the primitive level of complexity of cooking, as well as the speed of the process. Such a casserole can still be considered the queen of improvisation. Add more than just cheese and eggs. Add the taste of the dish with mushrooms, smoked meats, boiled meat, various sauces, pickled products, vegetables. This list can be continued almost indefinitely.
Compound:
- packaging of semi-finished dumplings;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs.;
- onion head;
- vegetable oil;
- 100 g of hard cheese;
- salt and spices to taste;
- 100 ml mayonnaise.
Cooking:
Note to cook
Casserole with dumplings and cheese is prepared simply. Almost every hostess has a pack of dumplings in the freezer, and for bachelors this is generally a signature dish. Mushrooms will help diversify the taste of the casserole. Use any product based on personal taste preferences.
Compound:
- 0.3 kg dumplings;
- 100 g of tomato paste;
- 150 g of hard cheese;
- 0.2 l of filtered water;
- 2 onion heads;
- 0.2 kg of fresh mushrooms;
- refined sunflower seed oil.
Cooking:
Dinner in 10 minutes
A lazy dumpling casserole is cooked in just 7-10 minutes in a microwave oven. To improve the taste and give the dish juiciness, add some fresh or frozen spinach.
On a note! It is better to cook a casserole in a microwave oven at a power of 600-800 watts. If you notice that the dish is not cooked, add a few more minutes. The duration of the preparation of the dish directly depends on the functional features and technical characteristics of the kitchen gadget.
Compound:
- onion - 1 pc.;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs.;
- 50 g spinach;
- 50 g of hard cheese;
- 0.1 l sour cream;
- salt, pepper mixture - to taste.
Cooking:
- Break the eggs and place them in a suitable bowl.
- Add sour cream room temperature, salt and pepper mixture.
- In any convenient way, beat these ingredients until a mass of a homogeneous consistency is formed.
- We clean the onion, finely chop with a knife.
- Saute the onion until golden in a pan.
- We take glassware for microwave oven, lubricate it with oil.
- Wash spinach, dry and chop.
- Put semi-finished dumplings and chopped spinach into the egg mixture.
- Stir, add fried onions.
- Put all the ingredients in a glass bowl.
- Sprinkle grated cheese on top.
- We put in the microwave oven for 7-10 minutes. We choose the maximum power.
Alternative option
Your oven or microwave oven is broken, but you want to treat your guests with a casserole? Try cooking it in a skillet. In addition to dumplings, you will need frozen vegetables. It is best to prioritize ready mixes, for example, Mexican.
On a note! In the process of frying vegetables, a lot of juice is released, it must be drained. Fry first vegetable mix until half ready. Together with the rest of the ingredients, the vegetables will reach. Otherwise, you will overdo them and they will turn into a tasteless porridge.
Compound:
- 0.3 kg of semi-finished dumplings;
- 200 g of a mixture of vegetables;
- 0.1 l cream;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs.;
- hard cheese - 0.1 kg;
- dried herbs, spices and salt.
Cooking:
- In refined sunflower seed oil, fry the vegetable mixture until half cooked.
- In a separate bowl, combine eggs with cream.
- Whisk these ingredients together until smooth.
- Add salt and dried herbs to taste.
- Put frozen dumplings on top of the fried vegetables in a pan.
- Mix them and pour the prepared egg-cream dressing.
- We rub the cheese on a medium grater.
- Sprinkle them on top of the casserole and put on a slow fire.
- For a quarter of an hour, in a sealed container, we prepare dumplings casserole.
- To make the dish browned, at the very end, open the lid and cook the casserole for a couple more minutes at maximum heat.
