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Grandma's Bavarian bread dumplings recipe

Bavarian bread dumplings recipe

Grandma's Bavarian bread dumplings this lovely “Bread Dumpling Recipe” is perfect if you have some hardened, left over bread buns or stale bread! Here in Germany, we love to eat the bread dumplings as a side dish to classic, hearty dishes such as traditional “Bavarian Roast Pork with Crispy Crackling” and Sauerkraut
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Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes
Course: Dinner, eat a side dish, Lunch
Cuisine: German
Keyword: Bavarian bread dumplings recipe, Grandma's Bavarian bread dumplings
Servings: 4 Portionen 30
Calories: 560kcal

Equipment

  • 1 large pot
  • 1 knife
  • 1 cutting board
  • 1 paring knife
  • 1 Slotted spoon
  • 1 Hand Mixer

Ingredients

  • 10 stale bread buns, preferably Kaiser buns (or 450-500 g dumpling bread)
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 Onion Finely grated
  • 1 Parsley Bunch of flat leaf parsley, finely chopped
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 500 ml milk hot
  • 1 tsp baking powder sprinkled
  • 50 g butter

Instructions

  • It is best to prepare all needed ingredients right at the beginning. You can do yourself a big favor by weighing and measuring your ingredients right from the start, too. Cut the dry stale buns or bread into small cubes. Peel the onion and wash the parsley.
    bread cubes
  • Finely grate the onion and sauté it in 20 g of butter until golden brown. Add the parsley and let cool.
    parsely and onion in butter fry
  • Boil the milk with 30 g of butter. Pour the hot milk over the diced bread and let cool. Add baking powder, eggs and cooled parsley onion mixture and salt to the soaked bread cubes.
    bread cubes, eggs, milk, parsely
  • Leave the dumpling dough to sit for about 20-30 minutes. Stir the dough with a hand mixer until everything is well combined.
  • In a large pot, bring water to a boil and add a little salt.
    bread dumplings
  • Set up a bowl of cold water. Now wet your hands and form the dumplings and put them into the boiling water. Keep wetting your hands between forming each dumpling to make sure your dumplings receive a smooth surface. Let them simmer on low heat for about 15-20 minutes. Don't cook the dumplings in boiling water. Once your dumplings rise to the water surface, they're ready. The dumplings are lifted out of the water one by one with a slotted spoon and are then ready to serve.
    Grandma's Bavarian bread dumplings recipe

Nutrition

Calories: 560kcal | Carbohydrates: 85g | Protein: 23g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 137mg | Sodium: 1578mg | Potassium: 423mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 423IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 375mg | Iron: 5mg
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