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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.

Recipe from the farmer's kitchen

Jessica Moser

Farmer from farm Oberpartegger

Oberpartegger, Villanders ©

Ingredients

4 persons

45 MIN.

• 250 ml
  milk
• 60 g
  leeks (finely chopped)
• 300 g
  dumpling bread (in cubes)
• 2 dspn
  oil
• 1
  onion
• salt
• 50 g
  butter

Other ingredients:

350 g

hard cheese (mountain cheese, ‘graukäse’)

40 g

parmesan cheese (grated)

60 g

butter (brown)

4

free-range eggs

4 dspn

chives

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Instructions - Cheese dumplings

• 1.

  Step
  Pour warmed milk over stale bread.
• 2.

  Step
  Peel onions, chop finely and sweat in butter.
• 3.

  Step
  Den 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.
• 4.

  Step
  Form dumplings with wet hands and boil in plenty of simmering salted water for 8-10 minutes.
• 5.

  Step
  Take out dumplings, strain, and sprinkle with parmesan.
• 6.

  Step
  Finally, pour over brown butter, scatter with chives and serve.
•  
  Happy cooking

Jessica Moser

Farmer from 'Roter Hahn Buschenschank'

Oberpartegger in Villanders

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