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Potato Dumplings – Kroppkakor Recipe

Yields1 ServingPrep Time20 minsCook Time35 minsTotal Time55 mins

?Potato dumplings, or kroppkakor, are a traditional Swedish dish made from potatoes, flour, and salt. They are boiled in water and served with butter, sour cream, or gravy.

 1 kg cooked potatoes
 2 egg yolks
 1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
 1 onion
 100 g smoked ham
 100 g bacon
 pepper
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Proceed as follows:

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Mash the potatoes. Put it on a breadboard and make a small pit in the middle.

3

Put eggs, flour and salt in the pit and work the potato-dough fast together. Too much kneading makes the potato tough.

4

Chop finely the onion, cut the bacon and ham into small pieces and fry it until it gets coloured. Flavour it with white pepper.

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Form the potato-dough to a thick roll. Cut it in thick slices and put a pile of bacon mix in a pit in a slice, then put another slice on top of it, press the edges together and roll it to a ball.

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Lower the balls in boiling salted water and boil them approx. 10-12 minutes or until they float to the surface. Pick them up with a perforated ladle and put them on a hot serving plate. Don’t boil too many at a time, they will then have some difficulty to float to the surface.

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Serve hot with melted butter and red whortleberry (lingonberry) jam or cranberry jam.