Transcript Bryndza dumplings • Probably every Slovak would mention this meal as the first choice when asked to name a Slovak national meal. • Bryndza.

Bryndza dumplings
• Probably every Slovak would mention this
meal as the first choice when asked to
name a Slovak national meal.
• Bryndza is a special cheese made out from
sheep‘s milk. It can be replaced by a
cottage cheese made from cow‘s milk but
then it cannot be called Bryndzove halusky
in Slovakia any more – it is Halusky s
tvarohom (dumplings with cottage cheese)
Ingredients
• 2-3 of larger uncooked potatos
• fine whole wheat flour
• salt
• smoked bacon
• bryndza
Instructions
• Peel and finely grate potatoes.
• Add flour in roder to make a dough or
mixture which is not too taugh but not to
watery . Some people add milk to the
mixture but it is not necessary to do so.
• Add salt to taste.
• Boil enough water with 2 tbsp of salt.
• Then from the dumplings with a knife or
teaspoon on with cold water washed
wooden plate and thrown them into the
bubbling salted water. (There is now
special equipment with which you can
form halusky more easily and which can
be bought in shops.)
• Boil the dumplings a little.
• When the dumplings are done they will
float on the surface of the water. Pick
them out with a strainer, rinse with cold
water and mix with bryndza.
• Cut up little piece of smoked bacon and
fry them. Then put the fried bacon pieces
on top of the meal.
• People usually serve Bryndzove halusky
with a cup of ordinary milk.
Patrik Szekács
7.A.