Blackberry Fruit Dumpling Recipes

BLACKBERRY DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, combine the blackberries, 1 cup sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt and lemon extract. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes., Meanwhile, in a bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, nutmeg and remaining sugar and salt. Add milk; stir just until mixed. (Dough will be very thick.), Drop by tablespoonfuls into 6 mounds onto hot blackberry mixture; cover tightly and simmer for 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in a dumpling comes out clean. , Spoon into serving dishes. Serve with cream or whipped cream if desired.

BLACKBERRY DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Mix blackberries, 1/3 cup sugar, the water and lemon juice in 3 1/2- or 4-quart slow cooker.
• Cover and cook on low heat setting 3 to 4 hours (or high heat setting 1 1/2 to 2 hours) or until mixture is boiling.
• Mix baking mix and 2 tablespoons sugar in small bowl. Stir in milk just until dry ingredients are moistened. Drop dough by 6 spoonfuls onto hot berry mixture. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
• Cover and cook on high heat setting 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of dumplings comes out clean.
• To serve, spoon dumpling into dessert dish. Spoon berry mixture over dumpling. Top with whipping cream.

JUANITA'S BLACKBERRY DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Place blackberries, sugar, water, butter, and cinnamon in a large saucepan. Cook and stir occasionally over medium heat until have started to break down and form a sauce, about 20 to 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, whisk together the flour and salt in a mixing bowl. Cut in the shortening with a knife or pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir the egg yolk into the crumbs. Add the milk a tablespoon at a time, tossing with a fork, until the flour mixture is moistened. Do not add more milk than you need: when you squeeze a handful of the moistened pastry mixture, it should form a ball. Divide the dough in half and shape into balls.
• Roll one ball into a 1/4-inch thick round, like a pie crust. Using a floured knife cut lengthwise 2 to 3 inch wide strips of dough. Repeat with the second ball of dough.
• Holding each strip of dough over the boiling blackberries pinch off 4-inch lengths and drop into the berries. Repeat until all the dough has been used. Cook the dumplings over medium heat for 15 minutes. You may push the dumplings down into the juice but do not stir until they are fully cooked or they will clump together.

BLACKBERRY FRUIT DUMPLING

Steps:

• In a 6-qt. kettle, combine the blackberries, sugar, water and butter; bring to a boil., For dumplings, combine the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. In a large bowl, beat egg and milk; stir in dry ingredients until a soft dough forms. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto boiling berry mixture. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until dumplings test done (do not lift the cover while simmering)., Serve warm with cream if desired.

DUMPLINGS FOR FRUIT- GRANDMA'S BLUEBERRY DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• 1. NOTE: These dumplings can be made with any fruit you choose. Try mixed frozen fruits, peaches, or raspberries. The recipe remains the same except use a different fruit.
• 2. BLUEBERRIES: In a large pot place washed berries, water, sugar, and lemon juice. Bring this to a boil. Mix cornstarch with 1 tablespoon more water. Slowly stir cornstarch and water mixture into boiling mixture. Cook on low for a few minutes (to thicken) while preparing dumplings. Stir fruit occasionally.
• 3. DUMPLINGS: Stir together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in medium size bowl. Cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in milk to make a soft dough. Drop dough by spoonfuls into boiling fruit (the fruit must be boiling or the dumplings will fail). Do not stir the dumplings. They should be sitting at the top of the pot cooking.
• 4. This is the most important step in making the dumplings. Cover the pot, reduce heat to low, and cook slowly for 20 minutes. Do not remove the lid before 20 minutes have passed or dumplings will fail. When 20 minutes have passed remove pot cover and serve hot dumplings with ice cream or whipped cream.

GRAMPA'S BLACKBERRY DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• 1. Put blackberries in large pot, cover with water. Add about 1 cup sugar. Bring to a boil and cook about 5 minutes. You want this to start to be a little syrupy. You can either remove the seeds now or leave them in. We actually got fancy and got them an automatic strainer that removed them.
• 2. If you removed the seeds put the pulp back in the pot with the juice and heat back up to boiling. You add the dumplings next. Now if you have a great recipe for dumplings you can use it, but we just use the one on the back of the bisquick box and dropped tablespoon size dough into the boiling blackberry mixture and reduce the heat. When dumplings are puffed and done, about 10 minutes dish up and serve hot.
• 3. Add a scoop of ice cream on top it's wonderful. I'll list the Bisquick recipe for dumplings below. Stir 2 cups Bisquick mix and 2/3 cup milk until soft dough forms. Drop by spoonfuls into boiling mixture. Reduce heat, cook uncovered for 10 minutes.

BLACKBERRY DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Combine blackberries, sugar, butter, and lemon juice in a saucepan over medium heat; cook and stir until blackberries start to break down, 5 to 10 minutes. Stir flour and salt into blackberry mixture; add water until desired consistency is reached. Bring to a simmer.
• Place tortillas into the simmering blackberry mixture; simmer until tortilla "dumplings" are tender but not soggy, about 5 minutes.

BLACKBERRIES AND DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Combine blackberries, sugar, water and nutmeg in a saucepan on top of the stove. Bring to a boil, then turn down to medium boil and cover the pot. In a bowl whisk together the all-purpose flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Mix the milk into the flour mixture with a spoon. Your dough should be where you can flour your hands and pull off pieces and roll into balls about the size of a walnut. I just put some flour on a paper plate and flour my hands good to do this
• You can add a little more flour to the dumplings if you need to so you can handle the dough. Remove lid from pot and drop in the dumplings. Replace the top and cook 5 to 7 minutes until dumplings are cooked. You should get 11 to 12 dumplings from your dough. Makes about six servings.
• (I consider a serving 2 dumplings' with sauce ladled over them.) Serve with ice cream or whipped cream for dessert or a treat anytime.

GLUTEN-FREE BLUEBERRY DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Place berries, water, sugar and lemon juice in 4-quart saucepan on stove.
• Bring to gentle boil while preparing dough.
• In mixing bowl, cream sugar and butter.
• Beat in the egg.
• Stir in buttermilk alternately with sifted dry ingredients.
• Do not overbeat- this will be a fairly stiff dough.
• Drop dough by 8 small spoonfuls onto the boiling fruit sauce.
• Cover, turn down to simmer, and cook without removing lid for 20 minutes.
• Serve hot in small bowls with fruit sauce spooned over the dumplings.
• Top with cream, whipped cream, or ice cream.

BLACKBERRY DROP DUMPLINGS RECIPE

Steps:

• Combine blackberries, water, cinnamon, and sugar into the large pot or saucepan for the blackberry sauce. Mix together and bring to a boil over medium heat. Boil for 1 to 2 minutes, and then turn off the heat.
• In the medium bowl, whisk the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder.
• In the small bowl, whisk the wet ingredients: milk, butter, egg, and vanilla.
• Combine wet and dry ingredients in the medium bowl by pouring the wet mixture in the center of the dry ingredients. Mix until there is a wet, sticky dough for the dumplings. Be careful not to overmix the dough.
• Let dough rest for 5 minutes and return blackberry sauce to a boil under medium heat.
• Drop large spoonfuls of dough into simmering blackberry sauce. Make sure the dough is side by side and not on top of each other for even cooking.
• Place the lid on the pan and turn heat down to low. Let sit for 15 minutes covered. Do not lift the lid during these 15 minutes.
• Check dumplings after 15 minutes by cutting into one with a fork. The center should be fluffy and no longer sticky.
• Remove the pan from heat. Flip each dumpling over gently. The top sides of the dumplings will soak up the juice and flavor from the sauce. Let sit for 5 minutes.
• Serve hot over vanilla ice cream or whipped cream/cool whip.