Croatian Plum Dumplings Knedli Od Sljiva Recipes

CROATIAN PLUM DUMPLINGS RECIPE (KNEDLE SA ŠLJIVAMA)

Steps:

• Peel and boil the potatoes until tender
• Mash and salt the potatoes, and allow to cool
• Once cool, add oil and whole egg, and the flour and knead
• Roll out to 1 cm thick
• Cut into squares - the size of the cubes will depend on the size of the plums. It needs to be big enough so, that it can wrap the plum
• Using lightly floured hands, take the square of dough and pat it flat in your hand. Place a plum in the center and bring the sides of dough up over plum
• Enclose the plum in the dough
• Moisten edges with water to seal - you now have your dumpling!
• Place the dumplings in boiling water, and cook for 20 minutes
• With a slotted spoon, collect the dumplings, and allow them to drain on kitchen paper
• Brown the bread crumbs in a little sunflower oil (or butter) and sprinkle over the dumplings
• Transfer the dumplings to a serving platter and layer with icing sugar

CROATIAN PLUM DUMPLINGS RECIPE - KNEDLE S SLJIVAMA

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• In a large bowl, combine potatoes, eggs, and salt.
• When well combined, add flour and mix until soft dough forms.
• Place a sugar cube in the center of each pitted plum. Place a large pot of salted water on and bring to a boil.
• Using lightly floured hands, take a portion of dough and pat it flat in your hand. Place a plum in the center and bring sides of dough up over plum, enclosing it completely. Moisten edges if necessary to seal.
• Carefully drop into boiling water. Repeat until all plums are in the water. Cook 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, melt butter in a small skillet, add breadcrumbs and brown.
• Using a slotted spoon, remove dumplings to a colander.
• Transfer to a serving platter and pour buttered crumbs over dumplings. Dust with granulated or confectioners' sugar and cinnamon, if desired.

CROATIAN BREAD DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Remove crust from bread. Cut the rest of bread into small cubes and dry them in oven. They must become crunchy.
• Make dough mixing milk, flour, eggs, parmesan and salt. Pour over crunchy bread.
• Finely mince onion. Cut bacon into small pieces and fry them but not too much. Bacon will drain some lard, so add oil and sauté onion until becomes translucent. Add parsley leaves and bacon and put it into dough.
• Mix well and leave at least half an hour in refrigerator.
• Make balls with your hand. They must be not larger than tenis balls. To do it better, put your hands in cold water before you form each ball. Put balls into boiling water and cook about 20 minutes. The balls must float, that is the indication they are done.
• Before serving fry in a frying pan some breadcrumbs on butter. Put bread balls on hot butter just for few seconds to cover them with breadcrumbs. For four persons reduce amount of ingredients to 1/4.

CROATIAN MAđARICA RECIPE (LAYERED CHOCOLATE SLICE)

Steps:

• Cook the milk with sugar and vanilla until it boils
• Take out a cup of milk and whisk the flour into the milk. Slowly pour in the flour and milk mixture into the boiling milk and continue to stir
• Turn down the heat and add the chocolate and stir continuously until the chocolate melts and the filling thickens
• Remove from heat and stir in the butter
• Put it aside and let the mixture cool. It should be completely cool before using it
• Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F)
• Now you need to make a dough. Beat butter with sugar, egg whites, and cream add sift in the flour and baking powder, and knead into a dough
• Separate it into five equal parts and roll each one out into rectangles. I usually use a cake tin as a template, so I know the size and shape that I need to roll the dough. Also, I also like to roll it on baking paper; that way, it's easy to transfer the dough onto the baking tray
• Roll the dough as thin as possible and place it on a baking tray ready for cooking
• Bake layers one by one, each for 8-9 minutes. You want the layers to stay light in color. Once baked, put them on a flat surface and let them cool
• Melt the chocolate with butter and oil over simmering water. When it's well combined, it's ready
• Now it's time to assemble the layers of the cake. First, place one layer of the cooked dough onto a baking tray and then spread part of the filling on the cake
• Cover with the second layer of cooked dough and repeat
• You need to end with the dough layer on top; you then finish with the glaze. Simply pour the glaze over the cake and then refrigerate overnight
• The next day cut into small rectangles and serve

CROATIAN PLUM DUMPLINGS (KNEDLI OD SLJIVA)

Steps:

• Cook potato in skin until soft (like for potato salad). When ready peal the skin and mash potato on flat surface. Be careful it is very hot.
• Add butter (crush it a bit to speed melting), flour, semolina, nutmeg and salt. Make it into a dough, and when cools it a bit add two eggs. You will think now that you make a big mistake because it will turn very wet, but you have to be firm and continue to make dough. It is OK to add more flour.
• The right amount of flour will be clear to you after you make this several times, this is amount I usually put. It also depends on quality of potato; some are softer than others. When the dough is firm, but soft enough, make the dumplings.
• Cut a piece of dough and roll around cleaned and washed plum. The dough shouldn't be more than 1 cm thick. If you make it without plum stone, break the plum into half, remove the stone and put a sugar cube instead. After that, do as previously mention.
• At this point you can freeze the whole amount of dumplings, but do it on flat surface making sure they don't touch. After they freeze, you can put them in a bag.
• If you want to cook them right away, use large pot, fill with water up to 2/3 and add some oil. When water boils, put the dumplings into the water and cook until they start to float on the surface. You may use a toothpick to check if they are soft.
• In the meantime melt butter in a frying pan and fry some breadcrumbs. When removing dumplings from the pot put them into hot butter with breadcrumbs and fry them just a bit to reduce surplus of water.
• You may serve them as a desert, but also as a lunch, of course amount of dumplings will differ in both cases.
• When you open the dumplings, you may put some sugar over it and also some grounded cinnamon. Some people add sour cream over dumplings, but I don't like it that way.