Plum Dumplings with Poppy Seed Sauce

Ingredients

• 750 g potatoes (starchy)
• 100 g flour
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 Eggs
• 1 kg plums
• cube sugar (for the plums)
• 80 g Butter
• 100 g ground poppy seeds
• 0.5 tsp cinnamon
• 2 tbsp sugar
• powdered sugar (for dusting)

Instructions

1. 1.

   Cook the potatoes as whole boiled potatoes, peel them quickly while hot, press through a sieve, spread out to steam off and let cool.

2. 2.

   Meanwhile wash the plums, core them and fill each with a cube of sugar.

3. 3.

   Bring lightly salted water to a boil in a wide pot.

4. 4.

   Sift about two-thirds of the flour and salt together. Whisk the eggs, mix in with a fork, then quickly combine everything into a dough. If needed, fold in the remaining flour. Shape the dough into a log, cut slices so each can wrap a plum thinly.

5. 5.

   Wrap the plums in the thin dough layer, shape them, and let them simmer gently in boiling salted water for about 5 minutes.

6. 6.

   While the dumplings cook, melt butter in a pan. Add poppy seeds, cinnamon and sugar, warm briefly over medium heat.

7. 7.

   Lift the dumplings with a slotted spoon, serve dusted with powdered sugar and topped with the poppy seed mixture.