Delicious Dumpling Dreams

Dumplings is one of the most famous and popular bavarian meals. In these days it's possible to buy them already done in a package or to buy the dough and just bring them in shape. But it's sooo much better to make them all on your own!

How to make real bavarian potato dumplings ("Kartoffelknödel"):

You need:
- about one pound raw, floury, peeled potatoes
- the same amount cooked, waxy potatoes
- one egg
- a little bit of flour
- salt
(- if you want roasted white bread pieces)
- a little bit of potatoe starch
- two and a half liter of salted water

What you do:
1. Grate the raw potatoes and press them through a kitchen towel or something similar;
Watch out for the starch, that remains in the towel, you'll need it later
2. Peel the hot waxy potaoes and crush them
3. Put both kinds of potatoes (the grated and the crushed) together with the egg and the flour
and some of the potato starch from the towel and make a dough out of it
4. Put the salt inside
5. Get your hands wet and make little balls out of the dough
(If you want it, you can now put some pieces of the white bread in the middle of each dumpling)
6. Bring the saltwater to boil
7. Switch the oven off and put the dumplings in the water and let them there for about 20 min.

Ready! You can eat dumplings with all kinds of roast and everything with a gravy. You can also fry them in a pan and have a salad with it!


We have so many different types of dumplings...also very good:

Bread dumplings ("Semmelknödel")

You need:
- one onion
- (60 gramms of) butter
- about one pound of whitebread or toast (should be already
a little bit older)
- salt, pepper
- nutmeg
- milk (about 1/4 liter)
- parsley
- 3 to 4 eggs
- saltwater

What you do:
1. Cut the onion in small cubes and steam them in the
butter
2. Cut the bread in cubes and put it in a bowl
3. Put salt, pepper and a little bit of nutmeg in it
3. Heat the milk and pour it in the bowl, too (not too much, not too less, it's a matter of feeling)
4. Wait for about 5 minutes
5. Then put the onion, parseley (cut) and eggs in it
6. Mix it carefully
7. Get your hands wet and make balls out of the dough (when the dough seems to dry put a little
bit more milk in it)
8. Let them boil in the saltwater for about 15 minutes (same way as above)

I'm sorry for the European metric system stuff, but it's easy to find out online what the American measures are...but actually it's a matter of feeling, so just try it!

An guad'n!
("Bon Appetit" in Bavarian)