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Schweinsbraten with potato dumplings
Schweinsbraten with potato dumplings is a centerpiece of Viennese cuisine and a feast for the senses. Tender, juicy meat with a crispy crust, seasoned with caraway and garlic, paired with fluffy dumplings made from starchy potatoes.
Cooking time: 120 minutes
| Ingredients (8 servings) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2 1/2 | kg | Pork (neck or blade) |
| 4-5 | garlic cloves, crushed | |
| 2 | yellow carrots | |
| 2 | orange carrots | |
| 1 | onion | |
| 1 | kg | pork bones (from the loin) |
| Salt | ||
| Pepper | ||
| Marjoram | ||
| Caraway seeds | ||
- Season the pork generously with salt, pepper, marjoram, caraway seeds and crushed garlic.
- Cut the yellow and orange carrots into 1-inch (3-cm) pieces, quarter the onion with the skin still on.
- Distribute the bones, carrots and onion in a roasting tray and place the seasoned pork atop of the bones. Pour water (or beef stock) into the roasting tray about 1 inch (2 cm) high and then place in a preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C). Roast for approx. one half-hour per pound of pork (one hour per kilo).
- When the roast is done, lift it out of the roasting tray, cut open, strain the juices from the tray into a pot and season to taste.
Ingredients for the potato dumplimgs
| Ingredients (8 servings) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 500 | g | starchy potatoes, peeled |
| 3 | egg yolks | |
| 1 1/3 | cup(s) | course flour |
| 4 | tablespoon(s) | semolina |
| 100 | g | butter |
| Salt | ||
| Nutmeg | ||
Potato dumplings
- Boil the potatoes in salted water for approx. 35 minutes, drain the water but leave the potatoes to let off steam for 2 to 3 minutes. Then mash the potatoes and leave to cool.
- Mix the egg yolks into the cooled-off mashed potatoes, then add the remaining ingredients and work the dough immediately, shaping the dumplings with your hands.
- Cook the dumplings in gently boiling water for 25 minutes.
Wine tip
Medium straw yellow, silver reflections. An attractive bouquet with a subtle herbal savouriness, fresh orange zest and a hint of greengage. Juicy, yellow pear, hints of apricot...
Leithaberg, Austria
Falstaff "Viennese Cuisine"
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Falstaff Verlags GmbH, 2024
39,90 Euro
