Kroppkaka

Name: Kroppkaka
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Swedish
Ingredients: 1 kg Floury potatoes; 250 g Plain flour; 1 Egg yolk; 250 g Salt pork or thick smoked bacon, finely diced; 1 Onion, finely chopped; 1 tsp Ground allspice; 2 tsp Salt; 1/2 tsp White pepper; 80 g Butter to serve; 4 tbsp Lingonberry jam to serve

A boiled dumpling of mashed potato and flour with salt pork and onion buried in the middle, eaten with melted butter and lingonberry — Öland and Småland food, dense and quiet.

Quelle

Rezept von Swedish home kitchens · 🏺 Traditionell · Husmanskost — plain household cooking. Potatoes, cream, pickled things and dill, in portions built for a long dark winter and a short bright summer.

Swedish · Öland and Småland — An ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms the boiled potato dumpling form, the onion and pork filling, the regional split between raw and boiled potato doughs and the butter and lingonberry served with it. Quantities and method are this book's own.

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Scandinavian Today Alice Wallberg Frankie Celenza

⏱ 90 Min.🍽 4 Portionen🔥 520 kcal🇸🇪 Schweden

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Zubereitung

Boil the potatoes in their skins until soft, then peel them while still hot and press them through a ricer.
💡 Rice them hot and let them cool afterwards. Mashing cold potato with a fork gives lumps that tear the dumpling open in the water.
Fry the pork until the fat runs, add the onion and allspice, and cook until golden. Cool completely.
Mix the cooled riced potato with the flour, egg yolk and salt into a firm dough. Do not knead it much.
Take a handful, flatten it in your palm, put a spoon of filling in and close the dough completely round it. Roll smooth.
Lower them into a wide pot of gently simmering salted water. They sink, then rise — give them 20 minutes from the moment they float.
💡 Gently simmering, never boiling. A rolling boil knocks them together and they split, and then you are cooking soup.
Lift out with a slotted spoon, split each one open, and pour in melted butter. Lingonberry on the side.

💡 Tipps

Test one dumpling first. If it opens in the water, work another 30 g of flour into the dough before shaping the rest.
Öland does them with raw grated potato, Småland with boiled. Both are called kroppkaka and both regions are certain the other is wrong.
Leftovers are sliced and fried in butter the next day, which is arguably better than the first serving.