Plum, apricot, nectar, peach season is here, so it’s time for some fruit dumplings, right? 😉
My husband’s late grandmother taught me how to make szilvasgomboc, which is Hungarian fruit dumpling, filled with plum. This is soooo good. Then I learned other people would have other fillings like apricot, peach and even strawberries. Intriguing, but since my husband grew up with the plum filled, I never got really curious enough to make the dumplings with other fruits.
The other day we got a bag of plum and a bag of apricots, and the apricots weren’t sweet to just served as is. So I decided to use a couple as gomboc fillings.
DOUGH
- 6 small – medium size potatoes, skinned, boiled, drained, mashed
- 6 tbsp aquafaba (bean water equals to 2 eggs)
- 2 c flour
- salt to taste
FILLING
- apricots and plums
- brown sugar/coconut palm sugar, as needed
COATING
- 3 c bread crumbs
- 2-3 tbsp vegetable oil/olive oil
OTHERS
- enough water for boiling
- enough icing sugar for serving
HOW TO
- Mix mashed potatoes with flour, salt and aquafaba
- Roll flat of floured surface and slice into portions
- Wash fruits, pat to dry then halved. Discard stones.
- Mix fruits with coconut palm sugar and place on dough
- Grab sides together and pinch to seal, shaping dough into a ball
- Bring water to boil
- Meanwhile, heat oil and fry breadcrumbs to browning, set aside
- Drop fruit dumplings into boiling water. Once they are floating, take them out with slotted spoon and roll dumplings in breadcrumbs
- Sprinkle dumplings with icing sugar just before serving
Yummo!
You can store it in the fridge and heat it in microwave to soften it again.
Next is to try with strawberries 😉
NOTE: I think white sugar would be perfect for apricot rather than brown/coconut palm sugar. But for plums, stick with brown/coconut palm sugar.
Szilvasgomboc
Ingredients
Dough
- 6 small – medium size potatoes skinned, boiled, drained, mashed
- 6 tbsp aquafaba bean water equals to 2 eggs
- 2 c flour
- salt to taste
Filling
- apricots and plums
- brown sugar/coconut palm sugar as needed
Coating
- 3 c bread crumbs
- 2-3 tbsp vegetable oil/olive oil
Others
- enough water for boiling
- enough icing sugar for serving
Instructions
Dough
- Mix mashed potatoes with flour, salt and aquafaba
- Roll flat of floured surface and slice into portions
Filling
- Wash fruits, pat to dry then halved. Discard stones.
- Mix fruits with coconut palm sugar and place on dough
- Grab sides together and pinch to seal, shaping dough into a ball
- Bring water to boil
Coating
- Meanwhile, heat oil and fry breadcrumbs to browning, set aside
- Drop fruit dumplings into boiling water. Once they are floating, take them out with slotted spoon and roll dumplings in breadcrumbs
Others
- Sprinkle dumplings with icing sugar just before serving
