Traditional German Potato Dumplings from Cooked Potatoes
I am sharing my favorite German potato dumpling recipe, which is made from cooked potatoes. This recipe is a breeze, even for those new to the kitchen. You'll be whipping up perfect potato dumplings in no time, feeling confident and capable in your cooking skills.
Servings 12 dumplings
Equipment
- 1 Large pot to cook dumplings
- 1 medium pot to cook potatoes
Ingredients
- 1 kg starchy potatoes 9 medium potatoes
- 150 g potato starch
- 2 eggs
- 20 g butter melted
- 1 tbsp salt for cooking potatoes
- 2 tbsp salt for cooking dumplings
- nutmeg
Instructions
- Peel and cook the potatoes in salty water until tender.
- Melt the butter.
- Drain the potatoes and let the steam evaporate completely.
- Take a large bowl and mash the potatoes with a potato ricer.
- Add potato starch, salt, nutmeg, butter and eggs.
- Knead the potato dumpling mixture well together with your hand.
- Form dumplings with your hands, tennis ball size (100g of mixture per dumpling). From 1kg potatoes, you should have around 12 dumplings.
- Take a large pot, fill it with 4 liters of water and bring it to boil. Boil the water for at least 3 minutes, add salt and turn the heat down. Whan the water is simmering add the potato dumplings.
- Place carefully potato dumpling into simmering water. Using a spoon make sure that they dont stick to the bottom of the pot.
- Simmer the dumplings on very low heat (I am using 2 out of 10) for 20-25 minutes in a pot without a lid! The potato dumplings are done when they swim on the water's surface.
- Take out the potato dumplings with a skimmer or keep them warm in a water for not longer then 20 minutes.
