Subcribe
Recipe
See Ingredients

Potato Dumplings with Sheep Cheese

  1. Peel the potatoes and finely grate them.
  2. Mix the flour and salt into the potatoes. In the event the potatoes are too dry, add a little water.
  3. Mix the dough well, it should be fairly thick, but so as it can be pushed through a sieve.
  4. Then push the halušky through the sieve with bigger holes into boiling salted water.
  5. Stir the halušky occasionally throughout the cooking. When they float to the surface of the water, let them boil for another 2-3 minutes. In the meantime, fry the finely chopped bacon.
  6. Take out the halušky with a sieve and allow them to drain and then hot, without washing them, put them into a bowl, where you have previously mixed the sheep cheese with the oil left after frying the bacon.
  7. Mix well, if it is too thick, add 2-3 tablespoons of water, in which the halušky were boiled. Sprinkle with bacon and pour over a little of the bacon oil left after frying.
Recipe

Tirol Dumplings

Culinary history has always been notable for successfully overcoming political boundaries. For instance, the history of the origins of the Tirol dumpling is in no way restricted to today’s Tirol. Although first recorded in a Tirol cookery book in the 16th century, spicy dumplings had been known fully 400 years earlier in areas of what is now Italy. This is demonstrated by a “fresco with dumplings” in the castle chapel in Hocheppan (Castel d’Appiano). What else but a delicious Tirol dumpling could have inspired the artist in question?

Recipe

Apple Strudel

Strudel, štrudl, štrudla and štrukli – these are the names given by our neighbors in Italy, Slovenia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to this sweet dream of light pastry and its juicy filling. But in English, the only word which has made it into common use is the German “Strudel”. That is a powerful signal of just how famous the Viennese Apfelstrudel has now become internationally. But it’s all too easily forgotten that this fine pastry once traveled an extensive route from Arabia via the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, before becoming resident in Vienna. However, the long journey was worth it!

Ingredients

  • 700g potatoes
  • 500g plain flour
  • 50g smoked bacon
  • 120g sheep cheese (bryndza)
  • salt

Want to know more about Europe?

Sign up to our newsletter here: