staerzelen (buckwheat dumplings from luxembourg)

Recipe by
Marion Wilting

This is a traditional recipe for buckwheat dumplings from Luxembourg. I don't know a recipe for buckwheat dumplings in germany, but since there is no category "Benelux", I place the recipe under "German" recipes because it has some resemblance to the Westphalian buckwheat pancakes which also are made with bacon and eaten with applesauce.

yield 5 -6
prep time 10 Min
cook time 30 Min
method Stove Top

Ingredients For staerzelen (buckwheat dumplings from luxembourg)

  • 100 g
    bacon
  • 1 Tbsp
    butter
  • 500 g
    buckwheat flour
  • 1 l
    water
  • 1 Tbsp
    coarse salt, heaped
  • 100 ml
    milk
  • 150 ml
    cream
  • pepper, to taste

How To Make staerzelen (buckwheat dumplings from luxembourg)

  • 1
    Cut bacon into stripes and fry until crisp. Add butter, set aside
  • 2
    Bring water to a boil, add salt. Stirring, slowly add the buckwheat flour, continue stirring so that no lumps can form, until you get a homogenous batter. If the mixture gets to stiff, you can stir with the hand mixer for some seconds. Immediately pull the por from the heat.
  • 3
    Dip a spoon into the pan with the bacon, then cut off tablespoon-sized dumplings from the dough and place in a warmed bowl.
  • 4
    Heat milk and cream and pour over the dumplings, distribute the bacon ocer the dumplings and season with pepper to taste
  • 5
    Serve with applesauce
  • 6
    Leftover dunplings can be cut up into slices and then fried in a pan

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