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Kroppkakor

Name: Kroppkakor
Total time: 80 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Sweden
Ingredients: 800g Potato; 100g All-purpose flour; 150g Bacon; 1 Onion; 1/2 tsp Allspice; 1 tsp Salt; 40g Butter; To taste Lingonberry Jam

Main Dish

⏱ 80 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Large potato dumplings filled with pork and onion and boiled, from Öland and Småland.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kroppkakor are a regional dish of Öland, Småland, and Blekinge in southeast Sweden. A dough of raw and boiled potato wraps a filling of salt pork, onion, and allspice, and the dumplings are boiled. They're served with melted butter and lingonberries, and each region competes over its recipe.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At an eatery in a windmill village on Öland, melted butter and jam are poured over big steaming dumplings as locals proudly explain the regional differences.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Potato 800g
All-purpose flour 100g
Bacon 150g
Onion 1
Allspice 1/2 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Butter 40g
Lingonberry Jam To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil and mash half the potatoes; grate the rest raw and squeeze out the liquid.
Mix both potatoes with the flour and salt to make a dough.
Finely chop and fry the bacon and onion, then mix in the allspice to make the filling.
Divide the dough into 8, flatten, wrap around the filling, and roll into balls.
Simmer in salted boiling water on low for 20 minutes.
Serve with melted butter and lingonberry jam.

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