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Cheese dumplings
Cheese dumplings
Kasnocken made from white bread and mountain or grey cheese served with melted butter are a mainstay of South Tyrolean cuisine.
Jessica Moser
Farmer from farm Oberpartegger
Oberpartegger, Villanders
Ingredients
4 persons
45 MIN.
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250 mlmilk
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60 gleeks (finely chopped)
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300 gdumpling bread (in cubes)
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2 dspnoil
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1onion
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salt
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50 gbutter
350
g
hard cheese (mountain cheese, ‘graukäse’)
40
g
parmesan cheese (grated)
60
g
butter (brown)
4
free-range eggs
4
dspn
chives
Instructions - Cheese dumplings
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1.
StepPour warmed milk over stale bread. -
2.
StepPeel onions, chop finely and sweat in butter.
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3.
StepDen Käse in kleine Würfel schneiden und mit den gedünsteten Zwiebeln zum Knödelbrot geben. Anschließend die Masse mit Eier, Lauch, Öl und Salz gut vermischen und zu einem festen Teig kneten.
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4.
StepForm dumplings with wet hands and boil in plenty of simmering salted water for 8-10 minutes.
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5.
StepTake out dumplings, strain, and sprinkle with parmesan.
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6.
StepFinally, pour over brown butter, scatter with chives and serve.
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Happy cooking
