Cheese Dumplings

Name: Cheese Dumplings
Yield: Serves Four
Cuisine: Ukrainian
Ingredients: 60 ml/4 tbsp cold water; parsley sprigs, to garnish; 115 g/4 oz/1 cup self-raising (self-rising) flour; salt and ground black pepper; 40 g/1½ oz/3 tbsp butter; 25 g/1 oz/2 tbsp butter; 25 g/1 oz/⅓ cup crumbled feta, dry brinza (sheep’s milk cheese), or a mixture of Caerphilly and Parmesan; 50 g/2 oz/1 cup slightly dry white breadcrumbs; 30 ml/2 tbsp chopped fresh herbs

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Complete Guide to Traditional Jewish Cooking

By Marlena Spieler

Published 2016

About

How many kinds of dumplings are there in Eastern Europe? these are enriched with Tangy white cheese and hail from Ukraine. Serve as a side dish to a dairy supper, perhaps alongside a big vegetable casserole.

Ingredients

115 g/4 oz/1 cup self-raising (self-rising) flour
25

Europe
Ukraine
Supper
Side dish
Vegetarian
Eastern Europe

Method

Sift the flour into a bowl. Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
Stir the cheese and herbs into the mixture. Season with salt and pepper. Add the cold water and mix to a firm dough. Rinse your hands to prevent the mixture sticking to them, then shape the dough into 12 balls.