North Croatian Farmers Cheese Dumplings

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 500 g farmer cheese (fresh)
• 60 g lard (must be lamb, but oil can do)
• 3 eggs
• 250 g semolina
• 5 g salt

Recipe

• 1 mix well whole eggs and lard. drain the cheese and add into eggs. add whole semolina, mix well and leave at least two hours in refrigerator. longer it stays in refrigerator, better dumplings.
• 2 heat large pot with water until it boils. keep boiling.
• 3 soak your hands in cold water and make balls; golf-ball size. put them one after another into boiling water and cook until they start to float on the surface and than 3-5 more minutes. it really depends how hard are your dumplings (that means you have to stick to the recipe).
• 4 to serve as a side dish to meat and sauce, fry some breadcrumbs on butter and put the dumplings into the pan, and fry with breadcrumbs just to stick it to the dumplings. serve warm.