Sweet Potato Dumplings

Fall Treat Anytime of Year

By annavo

2009-09-22 16:40:36

Here is the recipe for the sweet potato dumplings, adapted to be gluten free from my favorite cookbook of 2008, Screen Doors and Sweet Tea. Buy this cookbook, people. It is food genius in every way.

Prep time	20 minutes
Cooking time	20 minutes
Servings	4-6

Ingredients

3 large sweet potatoes
2 to 3 cups GF flour mix
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
2 sticks of butter
2 tablespoons fresh sage, chopped
2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese for dusting

Instructions

Bake sweet potatoes in oven at 375 for about 40 minutes. Let the potatoes cool until you can peel them easily. Put the flesh of the potatoes into a large bowl to mash or put through a ricer. Bring a large pot of water to boil while prepping the dumplings.

Combine 2 cups of the GF flour, salt, and nutmeg with the potatoes, mixing well. Keep adding GF flour as needed until your potato dough can be separated into dumpling balls. The dough will be sticky as GF flour tends to gum things up. This is just fine, as the dumplings will solidify when you boil them. Separate the dough into dumpling balls, about one and a half inches in diameter.

Line a baking sheet with a dish towel. Drop half the dumplings into the boiling water (not overcrowding the pot), then reduce the heat and simmer for 4-5 minutes. Once the dumplings rise to the surface, remove them with a slotted spoon and place on dish towel on the baking sheet. Allow water to return to a full boil and repeat process with the remaining dumplings.

In a large skillet, brown the butter, then stir in the pepper and sage. Add in the dumplings, gingerly turning them to coat the dumplings with the butter and sage. Slightly brown the dumplings, about 3-5 minutes. Put dumplings and butter sage sauce in serving bowl and dust with the parmesan cheese. Serve immediately.

Category	Side Dish
Cuisine	North American
Diet Choices
Tags	butter dumplings sage Sweet potatoes thanksgiving

valeriefender
Sept. 21, 2009

These sound so good! I will have to look for this book too. Sweet potatoes are one of my favorite "fall" type foods! Thanks for a new dish to try using them. YUMMY!
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grammylar
Sept. 22, 2009

Valerie you could bring these Wednesday??

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valeriefender
Sept. 22, 2009

:-) I would if we came to eat, we have just been coming for youth group.
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valeriefender
Sept. 22, 2009

Annavo, can you clarify the ingredients for these? There is some confusion in the amount of flour. I REALLY want to make these, but want to make sure I have it right first. :-) Thanks a bunch!
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annavo
Sept. 22, 2009

So sorry about that! The recipe format doesn't allow for dashes.

The correct amount of GF flour/baking mix is 2 to 3 cups, depending on how sticky your sweet potatoes are.

These are yummy, hope you enjoy them!!

xoxo
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valeriefender
Sept. 22, 2009

Not a big deal at all, I just wanted to make sure I understood the ingredients. They look really good. I can't wait to try them! :-)
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