Steps to Make Award-winning Apricot Dumplings

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, apricot dumplings. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Wrap the dough around to the apricot to form a perfect dumpling. To a medium saucepan, add apricots, water and lemon zest. Cover and bring to a boil. Lay the bread crumbs out on a sheet pan or plate and roll the apricot dumplings in the browned crumbs to coat evenly.

Apricot Dumplings is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Apricot Dumplings is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook apricot dumplings using 16 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Apricot Dumplings:

1. Prepare Dough
2. Make ready 500 g quark (soft cooking cheese)
3. Get 500 g flour (coarse grained)
4. Prepare 2 eggs
5. Make ready 2 tbsp sugar
6. Take Dash salt
7. Prepare Filling
8. Get 20 apricots
9. Make ready Garnish
10. Get 450 hard cooking cheese (Tvarog/Tvaroh, see pictures)
11. Get 600 ml whipping cream
12. Prepare 7 tsp Cocoa powder
13. Make ready 7 tsp Icing sugar
14. Prepare 175 g butter (unsalted)
15. Get To prevent dumplings from sticking
16. Get 100 g flour

Try your hand at these traditional apricot dumplings, as made in the Lower Austrian Wachau Valley. The mild climate and fertile soil of the Wachau Valley not only produce outstanding white wines; they are also perfect for fruit-growing. For this unique recipe, apricots are cooked up with water, sugar, lemon juice and butter until they are plump and juicy. Apricot Dumplings (Marillenknödel) are a famous dessert, probably created in Vienna, Austria, then spread all over Austro-Hungarian empire, to countries like Hungary, Check Republic, Croatia etc.

Instructions to make Apricot Dumplings:

1. Wash, split in half and deseed all the apricots
2. Mix all the dough ingredients (quark, flour, sugar, eggs, salt) with your hands until doesn't stick to the bowl walls. Add more flour to make it stick less.
3. Dust a flat surface with flour so that dumplings don't stick to it.
4. Put some extra flour (about half a cup) in a small bowl.
5. Dust the whole doug piece with more flour and take a piece. Then with your fingers, make it roughly round, flat and thin. Put the dough in the small bowl to get more floury if it starts to stick to your fingers. You may need to wash you hands after a couple of dumplings anyway.
6. Put half an apricot in the middle and wrap it.
7. When you have about half of the apricots wrapped, put 2-3l of water to boil. Once boiling, reduce to medium heat.
8. Put a few dumpling in the water so they don't touch.
9. Gently move them right after you put them in the water so they don't stick to the bottom. Then you can leave them.
10. Once they float to the surface, they are done. You can move them to a large bowl and put more in the pot.
11. To garnish the dumpling, prepare the hard cooking cheese. You can find one in International shops as Tvarog/Tvaroh, in soft plastic. Go for the red ones (whole fat) - tłuty/plnotučný. You should be able to take it apart by hand into large grains like on the picture. It can also be so hard, that you'll be able to grate it. Unfortunately the soft cheese (quark) has the same name but it usually sold in hard platic containers.
12. Melt butter, 25g per portion.
13. Cut the dumpling in quaters with a knife or a tablespoon.
14. First, garnish with 62g of the hard cooking cheese.
15. Then dust with 1 tsp of cocoa powder, 1 tsp of icing sugar, 25g of butter and 86g of whipping cream.
16. You can freeze these dumplings and reheat at any time. They last for ages.

For this unique recipe, apricots are cooked up with water, sugar, lemon juice and butter until they are plump and juicy. Apricot Dumplings (Marillenknödel) are a famous dessert, probably created in Vienna, Austria, then spread all over Austro-Hungarian empire, to countries like Hungary, Check Republic, Croatia etc. I remember they were often on our table in late spring and early summer, as well as even more popular Plum Dumplings in autumn. Place an apricot into each of the flattened pieces of dough, shape the dough around apricot and seal well. Apply some flour to your hands, form dumplings and place on a floured board.

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