The potatoe dumpling is a typical Hungarian food usually filled with plums. Now is the season for apricots so the filling is made from them. This is a very delicious food which is eaten after a meaty soup.

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Ingredients: for 15 dumplings

Dumplings:
500 g potatoes
125 g all purpose flour
Crumbs:
100-150 g dry crumbs of bread
2 tablespoon oil
2 tablespoon sugar
Filling:
7-8 apricots
and salt, powdered sugar

Preparation:

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Wash the apricots.

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Dice potatoes and cook them until soft in boiling water without salt.

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Crush the hot potatoes – without the water, only the potatoes.

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Let it cool.

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Make crumbs of dry bread with rasp.

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Frizzle the crumbs in a pan without oil. If it is as good as done add sugar and frizzle together. Sugar will become caramel. In the end admix 2 tbsp oil.

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Add flour to the potatoe puree and knead dough – about 1-2 minutes – add a pinch of salt too. Sprinkle flour under and over the dough because it is sticky.

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Stretch the dough – it should be about 1 cm thick.

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Slice to 6×6 cm squares.

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Cut apricots in half or quarter. It depends on the size of the fruit.

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Put apricots on the squares.

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Take by 4 corners of each square and compress the crevices well. Round them ball-shaped.

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Heat some water in a saucepan add salt too. When the water is boiling put the dumplings in the pan and cook them 4 minutes.

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Take out dumplings from water and put them in the crumbs.

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Roll the dumplings in the crumbs.

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Sprinkle dumplings with powdered sugar before you eat them.

Dumplings are made in Hungary with plums, peaches and jams too.

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