Dish of the month:
South Tyrolean cheese dumplings
(Südtiroler Kasknödel)
🧾Recipe
INGREDIENTS
- 120g dry bread cubes
- 100ml milk
- 2 eggs
- 100g cheese cut into pieces (traditionally you use Tyrolean grey cheese, if you wish you can also use a mild cheese like Edam)
- 50g leek cut into pieces
- a bit of chive cut into pieces
- 1/2 onion cut into pieces
- flour
- salt
- corn oil to roast leek and onion
- butter and parmesan to garnish
HOW TO MAKE IT
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Step 1
Take a bowl and fill it with the dry bread cubes, pour the milk and the raw eggs over and mix it with your hands or a wooden spoon.
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Step 2
Roast leek and onions in a pan with a bit of cornoil until onions and leek turn glassy. Mix them into the dough.
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Step 3
Add cheese, chive, salt and a hand full of flour to the dough and mix it.
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Step 4
Put a pot with water on the stove and wait for the water to boil.
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Step 5
In the meantime you can prepare the actual dumplings. Take a hand full of the dough and form dumplings. Press your hands together and form a round ball. Continue to do so until you used all the dough you prepared. You should be able to form 6-7 dumplings.
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Step 6
Put the dumplings into the boiling water that you should not forget to salt. Let the dumplings cook for approx. 7 minutes. Prepare a pan in which you melt some butter.
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Step 7
Take the dumplings out of the water and serve them with butter, chive and parmesan.