Meat Dumplings
If the dumplings are well-filled, you’re half way there! A simple potato dough filled with ground meat and herbs – this is all this classic Meat Dumplings requires. After all, real dumpling fans do say, “a day without dumplings is a fasting day!” And there’s good reason for this – they are filling and easy to make and this is precisely why it’s hard to imagine regional cuisine without them. As this classic is so popular, we have the recipe for you, so you can try them at home!
Ingredients
For the dough:
- 500 g potatoes (boiled and mashed)
- 10 g butter
- 30 g semolina
- 120 g flour (coarse ground)
- 1 egg
- salt
- 1 pinch of nutmeg (freshly ground)
- butter (for spooning over)
For the filling:
- 100 g onions (finely chopped)
- a little oil (for frying)
- 200 g minced meat (mixed)
- salt
- mustard
- pepper
- marjoram
- 1 garlic clove (crushed)
Directions for Meat Dumplings
- Boil the potatoes in salted water, allow to cool slightly, peel and mash. Knead with the butter, semolina, flour and egg. Season and mix into a dough and leave to rest for a while.
- To make the filling, peel the onions, chop finely and fry in a little oil. Add the minced meat, briefly fry and season.
Cut small pieces off the dough, roll out and place a little filling on the centre with a spoon. Shape the dough around the filling to create a dumpling. - Place the dumplings in boiling water, bring to the boil and simmer for approx. 10 minutes.
- Drizzle the melted butter over the Meat Dumplings and serve.
GOES WELL WITH Sauerkraut
TIP
Scatter fried breadcrumbs over the Meat Dumplings to make them extra crunchy.
JUST ONE MORE THING
Similar but special are our popular Tyrolean Dumplings. One thing is promised: they are also worth a try.
HISTORY-BOX
That Austrian cuisine has Bohemian cuisine to thank for its immense dumpling diversity is a fallacy. Dumplings are, in fact, a typical Alpine dish. Dumpling remains have been found in excavations of ancient settlements and by pile dwellings. These showed that, even then, meat and fruit was used as a filling in dough mixture and minced meat and dough was shaped into round balls.
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