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Czech/Slovak dumplings are very popular at home and even abroad. Dumplings or “Knedliky” can be served with sauerkraut and pork, or on the other extreme, with fruit and sugar. They can be prepared from bread, flour, potatoes or other products. They can have different shapes as well: balls, slices, crumbles and can be filled or used separately as sides, which depends on a way they are prepared: boiling, steaming, frying, baking etc. Fruit-filled dumplings are very popular at home at eating contests, as you may see with hot dogs at other places around the world. One such contest just took place in Miroslav, a town in the Znojmo District, where contestants competed in eating apricot-filled dumplings. The winner did not break the record, but was able to beat the winner of last year’s competition. Would you like to make your own dumpling or even compete in the same competition? There are as many variations of fruit dumplings since their fans, or dumpling experts, learn to make them from ingredients available abroad and we have a couple of them for you to try.

As you already found out, dumplings can be prepared in many ways. Fruit dumplings incorporate many of your taste buds since they can be very subtle, sour or very sweet. Melted butter and sugar make every child’s mouth water since this is a type of food that needs this extra sweetness. Fruit dumpling prepared for eating contests, however, are more plain since they are consumed in larger amounts. This year’s winner from Miroslav, Jaromír Rafaj, consumed a total of 105 apricot dumplings, which was 20 dumplings less than last year. Still, he was able to eat more than the winner from last year, Karel Hamersky, who this time ended in a second place. This was the 20th anniversary of this competition that takes place around the apricot harvest. A total of 1200 dumplings were prepared for this occasion. How are the consumed dumplings counted? Simply based on how many pits are left on the plate.

The fruit dumpling, however, can be prepared seedless. You can fill them with apricots, plums, strawberries, or any fruit you like. Below are some recipes posted by people, dumpling experts, living abroad. Which one you like the most is just up to your own tastes. Enjoy and let us know which one you like the best.

Fruit Dumplings (Svestkove Knedliky)
2 cups flour
1 egg, slightly beaten
2 tablespoons melted butter
1/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon salt
Mix egg with butter and milk. Add salt. Sift flour on a board and add first mixture, kneading until smooth. Cut dough into small pieces and wrap evenly around the fruit (make sure to pre-pit your fruit!). Seal well all around. Drop dumplings in a large pan of boiling salted water and cook for about 8 minutes. Do not overcook. Remove from water immediately, sprinkle with melted butter and keep in a colander over hot water until ready to serve. Arrange on a platter, sprinkle with some more melted butter and sugar. Crumbled pot cheese, ground poppy seed or bread crumbs fried in butter can be used for topping.

Fruit-Filled Slovak Dumplings
20 to 25 plums, apricots or peaches
1 pound cottage cheese or cream cheese
1/2 cup (1 stick) salted butter
4 whole eggs, slightly beaten
2 tablespoons farina
Flour to make a soft dough (I used 21/4 cups)
20 to 25 plums, apricots or peaches
Melted butter to taste (I used 1 stick)
Wash fruit well and set aside. Beat the cheese and butter until blended. Mix in the eggs, farina and flour.
Cut or pinch off even-sized pieces of dough, about the size of a Ping-Pong ball (larger if using peaches). Pat or roll to a thickness of about 1/4 inch. Place fruit in the center, seal edges to keep in filling during cooking.
Bring several quarts of water to a rapid boil in a large pot. Add a little salt. Slide dumplings into the water one by one, cover pot and cook 10 to 15 minutes, until dumplings rise to the top.
Drain well. Serve with melted butter spooned on top. May also add bread crumbs or chopped nuts. Makes 20 to 25 servings.
Per serving (based on 20): 151 calories (63 percent from fat), 10.8 g fat (6.4 g saturated, 2.9 g monounsaturated), 68.4 mg cholesterol, 5 g protein, 9.3 g carbohydrates, 0.9 g fiber, 171.2 mg sodium.

Kynute Knedliky
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cups skim milk (lukewarm)
4 tablespoons sugar
1 self-rising yeast packet
1 egg
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
16 pieces of halved fruit of your choice

In a small bowl, pour yeast packet into lukewarm milk and mix well. Add in sugar and 2 tablespoons of the flour and mix. Cover bowl and place in a 150-degree heated oven for about 10 minutes. Mixture should begin to bubble.
In a Kitchen Aid, mix remaining flour, egg, salt, and oil. Now add the bubbly mixture and mix until dough forms. Cover dough and place back into the heated oven for 1 hour, until dough rises and doubles in size.
Once dough has risen, cut off tablespoon-sized portions of dough. Spread each dough ball out, place fruit filling of choice, wrap fruit with dough, and pinch all sides to seal completely. Steam prepared dumplings for about 15 to 20 minutes.
Top with melted butter and sweetened cocoa powder, cottage cheese mixture (mix cottage cheese with rum, raisins, and lemon rind) or a sweetened fruit sauce of your choice. Enjoy!

Fruit Dumplings
1 and 1/2 cups milk
3/4 cups farina (cream of wheat)
1/4 tsp salt
1 egg
1 tablespoon sugar
1 to 1&1/2 cups instant flour or 00 extra
1-1&1/2 lbs fruit (peaches, apricots, blueberries, strawberries or plums)

Cook milk and farina for 5 minutes to make a porridge. Cool. Add salt, egg, sugar and enough flour to make a firm dough. Break off pieces of dough and make them about 1/8 inch thick and wrap around each piece of fruit sealing well so fruit juices cannot escape. Drop into boiling water and cook for 5-7 minutes. They will flat to the top. Even though Czechs serve theirs with grated tvaroh, I prefer to serve them with ricotta cheese sprinkled on top of them, a tsp of sugar and then warm melted butter. YUM!

Moravian Dumplings
250g cottage cheese (tvaroh)
250g flour (the red pack - as I wrote then)
1 egg
salt
About 20 strawberries

Boil a pot of water. Add dumplings and when they drift to the top, they are ready.
Melt butter.
Roast breadcrumbs in pan and mix with some icing sugar. Dumplings in plate, then butter, then icing sugar mix.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mNp4WCJkkI

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České/slovenské knedlíky jsou velmi populární jak doma, tak i v zahraničí. Mohou být připraveny se zelím a vepřovým masem, nebo dokonce s ovocem a cukrem. Mohou být připraveny z chleba, mouky, brambor a jiných produktů a různých tvarů: koule, plátky, hrudky, a mohou být plněné nebo použity samostatně jako příloha, což závisí na způsobu, jakým jsou připravené: vařením, pařením, smažením, pečením atd. Soutěže v pojídání ovocných knedlíků, jak můžete jinde ve světě vidět s hotdogy, jsou doma také velmi populární. Jedna taková soutěž se právě konala v Miroslavi, ve městě na Znojemsku, kde jedlíci soutěžili v konzumaci meruňkových knedlíků. Vítěz nepřekonal loňský rekord, ale dokázal porazit vítěze loňské soutěže. Chtěli byste si uvařit vlastní knedlík nebo dokonce podobně soutěžit? Existuje mnoho variant na přípravu ovocných knedlíků od mnoha knedlíkových fanoušků, neboli knedlíkových odborníků, kteří také vytvořili několik variant na základě přísad, které jsou dostupné v zahraničí, a pár z nich jsme jich vložili do anglické verze tohoto článku.

Jak jste již zjistili, knedlíky lze připravit mnoha způsoby. Ovocné knedlíky „zaměstnají“ mnoho vašich chuťových buněk, protože mohou být velmi plané, kyselé nebo velmi sladké. Roztavené máslo a cukr zaplní mnoho dětských úst, protože tento pokrm se bez nich neobejde. Nicméně ovocné knedlíky připravené pro soutěže jsou připraveny jednodušeji, protože jsou konzumovány ve větším množství. Letošní vítěz z Miroslavi, Jaromír Rafaj, snědl celkem 105 meruňkových knedlíků, což bylo o 20 knedlíků méně než loni. Přesto byl schopen sníst více než vítěz z loňského roku, Karel Hamerský, který tentokrát skončil na druhém místě. Tato soutěž byla již dvacátá v pořadí po meruňkobraní. Celkem 1200 knedlíků bylo připraveno pro tuto příležitost. Jak byly tyto snězené knedlíky počítány? Jednoduše – podle pecek, které zůstaly na talíři.

Ovocné knedlíky, však mohou být připravena na mnoho způsobů. Můžete je vyplnit meruňkami, švestkami, jahodami, nebo s jakýmkoliv ovocem, které máte rádi. V anglické verzi jsou uvedeny některé recepty, které knedlíkoví experti v zahraničí publikovali online. Nebudeme je však doslovně překládat, jelikož můžete nalézt mnohem více variant v českém jazyce, ale ZDE je jeden odkaz pro čerstvě nové kuchaře a milovníky knedlíků. Jak připravujete ty vaše ovocné knedlíky? Můžete nám poslat i váš recept do komentáře níže, nebo poslat odkaz na váš oblíbeny recept online. Děkujeme a dobrou chuť!

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