kluski ze śliwkami - plum dumplings

kluski ze śliwkami - plum dumplings (24 dumplings)

Ingredients:

6 med. Russet potatoes (do not substitute potato type) approx 2 lbs.

1 egg

2 cups flour

1/2 tsp. salt

Ground cinnamon

Sugar

śliwki (Stanley/Italian plums cut in half, pits removed)

Directions:

1. Potatoes - Boil with ½ tsp. Salt until tender, drain & rice them while hot.
2. Cool them completely.
3. Combine potatoes, ½ tsp. Salt, egg, & enough flour (too little flour = mushy, too much = heavy dumplings).
4. Take about a 2 Tbs. size of dough and spread out in your hand to form a disk (not to thick). Into the disk place ½ of Stanley plum, top with ¼ tsp. of cinnamon-sugar mixture. Next seal the ends and gently roll into egg shape dough balls, set aside under a towel so they don't dry.
5. Boil them until dumplings rise to the surface = 10 min
6. I cover dumplings with melted butter (my butter is a little brown).

If we are making them in advance, then I put dumplings in a "boilable cooking bags" - this way later whenever I need them I just put the bag in boiling water, or microwave the bag with my dumplings.

*** You will need a potato ricer.