Sweet Apricot Dumplings

This typical Slovenian dessert is often served with fruit compote and eaten as a main dish. You can also eat it as a dessert but you have to make them smaller and only use ¼ of an apricot. They are very filling and a serving size is 1 to 2 dumpling, depending of the size of the dumpling or the guest’s appetite:).

 

Ingredients

2.2 lbs potatoes (8-10 medium potatoes)

2 ½ cups flour (You can switch 1 cup flour with semolina flour)

1 tablespoon butter

1 tablespoon salt

2 eggs

8 apricots

8 sugar cubes (or teaspoons of sugar)

½ cup butter

½ cup breadcrumbs

 

Instructions

Wash potatoes but don’t peel them. Put potatoes in a medium pot, pour water to cover them and add a little salt. Bring the water to boil and let potatoes cook until soft, approximately 30 minutes.

When done, peel them and put in a mixing bowl. Mash the potatoes.

Add flour, 1 tablespoon butter, eggs, salt, and mix quickly. Don’t let the dough cool too much or it will get sticky.

Half apricots and remove pits.

Flour your hands and place a scoop of dough in one hand and flatten it using the other. Place 1 apricot half in the middle and add a cube of sugar. Form a ball so the apricot with sugar is completely covered with dough. You can also use a teaspoon of sugar instead of cube. Just be careful not to sprinkle it too much on the outside of the ball. Repeat until you run out of dough.

This recipe yields about 15 dumplings.

Fill a bigger pot with water, add salt, and bring to boil. Place dumplings in the boiling water and cook for 20 minutes.

Melt butter in a saucepan, add breadcrumbs, and cook until golden brown.

When dumplings are done, place them on a plate and pour a tablespoon of breadcrumbs with butter. You can also sprinkle some cinnamon and sugar on top if you wish.

You can cook some and put the rest in the freezer (just formed into balls but not yet cooked).

It’s a delicious meal either as a dessert or as a main dish.