German Potato Dumplings

photo by Jana Steinhagen

- Ready In:
- 4hrs 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 4 large potatoes
- 150 g plain flour
- 50 g potato starch
- 2 eggs
- 2 pinches salt
- nutmeg, 1 grating
directions
- Cook the potatos in their skins for 30 minutes and leave to cool in the refrigerator for several hours.
- then peel the potatos and mash them.
- mix the eggs into the flours and add the mashed potatos, season with salt and nutmeg.
- kneed into a dough.
- the dough should be quite dry otherwise the dumplings will fall apart when cooked.
- shape the dough on a floured surface with floured hands into a roll and cut into 8.
- make them into balls.
- drop the dumplings into boiling salted water and simmer the dumplings for 20 odd minutes.
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