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Prep Time: 60 Minutes Cook Time: 30 Minutes |
Ready In: 90 Minutes Servings: 4 |
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Flour dumplings combined with chopped wilted beet tops. The dumplings are boiled chilled and then heated up with chopped bacon and onion that has been browned. This is a dish we had in the fall every year at the time beets are harvested. It's not an exact recipe as there never has been one and the dumpling texture will vary each time. This is a comfort food favorite of mine every fall. They can be as a side dish, or I like them as a meal. Ingredients:
3 cups flour |
1 -1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder |
3 eggs |
3/4-1 cup milk |
salt |
2 bunches beets, tops washed, chopped and stemmed |
1 1/2 lbs bacon |
1 large sweet onion |
Directions:
1. Clean, stem and chop beet tops. Wilt in a small amount of water in pan. Mix dry indgredients, adding eggs and milk, work in the cooled, chopped beet tops, this requires mixing with hands and it is quite messy.
2. You are looking for a medium to medium firm dumpling so if mixture is too wet and sticky add flour, if too dry add milk.
3. Once you mix, form into dumplings about 4x1 inch, drop into salted boiling water and boil until dumplings rise and are firm.
4. Drain and chill.
5. Chop bacon and onion into bite size pieces, brown, add dumplings to heat through and serve.
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