Tyrolean recipes - farm recipes
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Cheese Dumplings
ingredients
250 ml milk
60 g leeks (finely chopped)
300 g stale bread, diced
2 tbsp oil
1 onion
salt
50 g butter
Other ingredients:
350 g hard cheese (mountain cheese, ‘graukäse’)
40 g parmesan (grated)
60 g butter (brown)
4 eggs
4 tbsp chives
preparation
Pour warmed milk over stale bread. Peel onions, chop finely and sweat in butter. Cut cheese into small cubes and add to bread along with onions. Then mix well with eggs, leek, oil and salt and knead into a firm dough. Form dumplings with wet hands and boil in plenty of simmering salted water for 8-10 minutes. Take out dumplings, strain, and sprinkle with parmesan. Finally, pour over brown butter, scatter with chives and serve.
Have fun cooking
Rosmarie Kainzwaldner
Farmer at ’Oberpartegger‘ near Villanders, a ’Red Rooster‘ farm and inn
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