How to Make Potato Dumplings
Serves: 6
Preparation time: 30 mins
Cooking time: 5 mins
Ingredients needed to make Potato Dumplings:
- 1 lb potatoes, cooked and cold
- 12 whole apricots
- 3 tbsp brandy
- 3 ¾ cups all purpose flour
- 1 egg yolk
- 12 lumps of sugar
- ¼ cup fine sugar
- 3/8 cup butter, cubed
- 1 ¼ cups white bread crumbs
- Dash of ground cinnamon
- Pinch of salt
For the sauce:
- ¼ cup brandy
- ¼ cup apricot juice
- 10 apricot halves
Cooking instructions for Potato Dumplings:
- Grate the potatoes while it is still cold and set aside.
- Place the sugar lumps in a bowl and pour in brandy; set aside to soak.
- Sift the flour into a bowl and stir in the grated potato as well as a dash of salt into it.
- Place the egg yolk into it and throw in the butter cubes.
- Work them together with your hands, while rubbing the butter between your fingers, until they are mixed properly into a dough.
- Place the dough onto a lightly floured working surface and knead it until soft and elastic.
- Roll it out into ¼’’ thick circle, using floured rolling pin and slice it into 4’’ squares.
- Insert a piece of brandied sugar into each apricot half and place another half of it on top to cover.
- Place one stuffed apricot onto the middle of each dough square.
- Wrap the edges around the apricot filling and crimp the open ends together to seal.
- Roll it into a small ball and place it onto a plate.
- Make rest of the dumplings in a similar fashion and set aside.
- Bring a large pot of salted water to boil and plop in the dumplings.
- Boil for 12 minutes and drain them out into a plate, using a slotted spoon, and set aside.
- Place the breadcrumbs in a clean skillet and stir in the sugar.
- Spoon in 2 tbsp softened butter and stir fry until they turn crispy.
- Spread the fried breadcrumbs onto a shallow dish and roll the dumplings on it to coat well.
- Sprinkle a dash of ground cinnamon over the dredged dumplings and arrange them onto a warmed serving platter; keep warm.
- To make the sauce, dump all its ingredients into a blender and pulse them into a smooth puree.
- Pour it into a saucepan and cook over moderate heat until heated through.
- Drizzle it all over the dumplings and serve warm.
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