Preparation time: 120 minutes ❀ Difficulty of preparation: Moderately demanding
Ingredients:
| Dumplings |
| 700 g potatoes |
| 300 g sweet potatoes |
| 2 eggs |
| 300 g flour |
| 2 tbsp oil |
| 100 g cherries |
| Crumbs sprinkle |
| 70 g bread crumbs (or ground integral biscuits) |
| 70 g ground hazelnuts |
| 8 tbsp oil |
| 15 ml cherry flavoring (optional) (optional) |
Preparation:
- Peel the potatoes and place them in a pot of lightly salted water to boil. If desired, you can replace part of the potato with a sweet potato. Sweet potatoes need a slightly shorter cooking time, so you can put them in water 5 minutes after the potatoes. Keep in mind that sweet potatoes have a slightly thinner texture, so with more potatoes, the dough will be easier to shape. Cook for about 20 minutes, until the potatoes are soft.
- Drain and mash boiled potatoes and sweet potatoes, then leave to cool to room temperature.
- In the cooled mashed potatoes, add 2 eggs and 2 tablespoons of oil and stir.
- Then add the flour and mix everything together into a compact mixture.
- From the dough, form dumplings and add one to two cherries to each. If the mixture seems sticky, you can make shaping easier with a little bit of flour.
- Heat slightly salted water in a pot until it boils, then add the shaped dumplings. Cook for about 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, heat the oil in a pan over medium heat and add the bread crumbs. Alternatively, you can replace the bread crumbs with ground biscuits or ground oatmeal. Additionally, you can mix in some ground hazelnuts or other nuts.
- To make it sweeter, add one to two tablespoons of sugar. Instead of ordinary sugar, you can choose some healthier alternatives like coconut or birch. Fry everything together briefly for one to two minutes, then turn off the heat.
- For a more colorful dumpling look, you can color the crumb mixture with cherry aroma or cherry juice.
- Drain the cooked dumplings and roll them in the previously prepared crumb mixture.
Even when a healthy diet is important to us, we all have favorite desserts for which we sometimes make exceptions. For me, it's dumplings. :) However, with the addition of healthier ingredients, we can enrich each dessert with nutrients and make the whole meal healthier. When preparing dumplings, we can replace part of the potato with its relative, the sweet potato, which is known for its beneficial effects on health. Regular flour can be replaced by some wholegrain flour, such as wholegrain spelt flour. In addition, the dumplings can be rolled in wholemeal breadcrumbs, ground wholemeal biscuits, or ground oatmeal. For a sweeter taste, we can choose healthier versions of sugar, such as coconut or birch sugar, and ultimately enjoy a healthier version of our favorite dessert.
Have fun with your favorite dessert and allow yourself to enjoy the little things that make you happy. Practice self-care, because loving others starts with loving yourself. On this topic, I will share my favorite quote about kindness from the wonderful book "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" by Charlie Mackesy: „Being kind to yourself is one of the greatest kindnesses.” Enjoy sweet dumplings and be kind to yourself and others. :)
Bon appetit!
