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Ovocné Knedlíky

Name: Ovocné Knedlíky
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Czech Republic
Ingredients: 250g Cottage Cheese; 200g All-purpose flour; 1 Egg; 60g Butter; A pinch Salt; 12 Strawberries; To taste Powdered sugar

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Strawberries or plums wrapped in dough, boiled, and topped with cottage cheese, powdered sugar, and melted butter — sweet Czech dumplings.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Ovocné knedlíky are fruit dumplings, and although sweet, Czechs sometimes eat them as a main course for lunch. Strawberries, apricots, or plums are wrapped in dough, boiled, and topped generously with grated tvaroh (fresh cheese), powdered sugar, and melted butter. They're a taste of home in summer fruit season.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At lunch on a summer day in a country house, steaming white dumplings are showered with powdered sugar and cheese, and hot strawberries spill out when they're broken open.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Cottage Cheese 250g
All-purpose flour 200g
Egg 1
Butter 60g
Salt A pinch
Strawberries 12
Powdered sugar To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix 150g cottage cheese, the flour, egg, 20g room-temperature butter, and salt into a dough and rest 30 minutes.
Divide into 12, flatten, and wrap each around a strawberry, rolling into a ball.
Bring plenty of water to a boil, add the dumplings, and boil 8 minutes after they float.
Melt the remaining butter.
Plate the dumplings and sprinkle with the remaining cottage cheese and powdered sugar.
Pour over the melted butter.

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