Butternut stew with dumplings

This is a journey that took a strange twist. I remembered having ‘fake kubbe’ at a friend’s house – spicy, light-textured dumplings served in soup; dumplings which looked like kubbe but had no meat filling. We experimented a lot, trying to recreate them and failing time and again, then we decided to revert to making Ashkenazi kneidl. They worked a treat. Try cooking these dumplings with the beetroot broth for a variation on traditional bee