27 May 2021

Fashion.at recipe tip with fruits of the season: Sweet dumplings filled with low calorie, rich on vitamins, minerals, and antioxidant acting power fruits strawberries; served with blueberry X strawberry yoghurt

It's a cold, very cold May this year. According to weather experts of the Austrian research institute (weather, climate, environment,...) ZAMG, the Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, everything looks currently like the temperatures of May 2021 are below the mean value of the last 30 years (ZAMG news). The last days of this month will very probably change not too much on the foresight. The effects of the low temperatures are countable such as fewer guests in the outdoor areas of gastronomy or public swimming pools. A changed calculation applies also to agriculture: Dates of the seasonal calendar are postponed by around three weeks such as for the strawberry harvest which had to be rescheduled to the end of May, early June. The popular DIY harvesting offered by several farmers on their fields is consequently also postponed (fast checked today at bluehendesoesterreich.at, where self-harvesting locations through all federal states of Austria are listed). Strawberries from regional farms available in supermarkets are currently rather from greenhouses than from open fields. But let's see it positive! The delay can be used for preparing nutrition plans - eventually inclusively self-harvesting tour - with the low calorie, antioxidant (against free radicals) acting fruit (details) which is one of the best for consuming vitamins and minerals in sweet dishes such as marmalade, compote, or strawberry dumplings.

Tips for sweet dumpling meals have appeared already several times on Fashion.at. The basic recipe is derived from a traditional dish prepared over generations in Vienna with roots in bohemian cuisine.

The dough (for around 40 strawberry dumplings):

• 500 gr low-fat quark
• 300 gr flour
• 2 eggs
• 120 gr butter
• a pinch of salt

The crumb covering:

• 1 teaspoon butter
• 80 gr breadcrumbs
• 80 gr chopped walnuts

Preparation:

• Mix the ingredients of the dough and partition it for around 40 strawberries (depends on the size of the fruits).
• Put flour on the table; roll each dough partition out and wrap the strawberry into it without leaving a hole or an air cushion.
• Heat water (with a small amount of salt) in a vessel; put the dumplings into the boiling water and let it simmer for around 10 minutes.
• In the meanwhile, roast the breadcrumbs and chopped walnuts in the butter.
• Roll the dumplings in the crumbs until they are covered.

Tip: Accompany the dumplings with a self-made blueberry X strawberry fruit yoghurt.