Bavarian side dish on your table: potato dumplings

"Kneudl (kless) - translated from German means Bavarian garnish, most often cooked from bread, soaked in milk, and potatoes (boiled or raw), they also add starch and egg, cooked or steamed, served with potato dumplings hot , As a side dish to meat dishes.It is poured with butter and sprinkled with grated cheese before serving .That's all right, just a heavenly dish!

Each keeper of the hearth tries to surprise people close to her every day. A new hairstyle, a make-up, a new dress. However, the best way to show yourself as an ordinary, loving, unique woman in the world than culinary skills is not (men's instincts, you know ... sleep, eat).

For the demonstration of culinary skills, the preparation of such an appetizing dish as potato dumplings "Men's Joy" is perfect.

First, prepare the necessary ingredients and items. For three people:

• Potatoes peeled (8-10 pcs of medium size);
• The egg is raw;
• bulb;
• Flour (3-4 tablespoons);
• salt;
• Bay leaf;
• Sweet pepper with peas;
• 250 grams of sour cream (located in the refrigerator);
• Gauze (30 cm by 90 cm).

Begin cooking by rubbing on the smallest grater onion (this then will not allow you to change the color of the potato), then rub potatoes, the use of a blender is not recommended.

Mix the potatoes with the onions and squeeze the potato juice through the gauze. A bowl of juice is set aside. In the resulting thick potato mass, add the egg and salt to taste. Potato juice is poured from a bowl, and the pale pink mass, frozen on the bottom, is returned to the potatoes. This starch, it gives the dish a kind of tenderness.

All the resulting mass begins to mix thoroughly. During the production of potato dough, flour is added in small portions, the amount of which depends on how well the potato was squeezed (and also the quality of the flour itself). When adding flour, you should not get involved. It is necessary to get a soft dough, in order to be able to roll balls out of it. If there is no certainty, they try to roll a ball with a diameter of 3-4 centimeters, such dumplings are more delicious. It turned out a ball - flour is enough, otherwise add more. Ideally, smooth dumplings from potatoes do not need, they will in any case lose their shape.

Before the formation of glue-balls, put a wide, four-five-liter, a pan of water on the fire. The pan is filled halfway.
The resulting balls are placed on a tray, sprinkled with flour.
Boiling water is salted (necessarily), add a laurel leaf and sweet pepper with peas. Very gently, one by one, put the dumplings in boiling water. Use an ordinary tablespoon for this. When all the balls are in the water, gently stir them. Dumplings should not stick together and stick to the bottom. When preparing a large number of dumplings, they can not be dropped into the water all together. Cook only in parts, the party - 25-30 pieces.

A boiling boil should not be, so the fire is reduced to an average level.
Pop up dumplings cook for two minutes and do not throw in a colander, and gently and accurately get out of the pan with the help of noise. It is important!

Potato dumplings are ready. But! In order to after them would like not only to lick their fingers, but also to eat, balls must be fried.

Fry dumplings in butter. You can use a mixture of olive oil and butter. It's to your liking.

For excellent results, dumplings again need to be laid out one by one. Fry them from all sides, turning over several times. If you want to cook potato dumplings with meat, add ground meat to the mass.

Serve hot dumplings on the table with sour cream. Bon Appetit!

Historical fact
After serving the potato dumplings "Men's Joy" many mistress's friends began to envy her skill and skill. Be careful!

PS The recipe is passed from the middle of the 17th century, from generation to generation, through the male line.