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Cheese Dumpling Soup- Käsenodelsuppe

BEST soup EVER.... It's like eating a grilled french onion cheese sandwich all in a bowl of soup.. Nuf said..
Course Main Course, Soup
Cuisine Austrian
Keyword Cheese soup, Dumpling Soup, Kasenodelsuppe
Servings 4 People

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
  • 2 teaspoons minced garlic
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • pinch of nutmeg
  • 2 tablespoons minced chives or scallions
  • 7 oz finely diced white bread I used large sandwich rolls from the deli
  • 10 oz grated Swiss or Gruyere cheese
  • 8 cups of preferably homemade chick stock
  • butter and oil for frying dumplings

Instructions

  • Melt butter and oil in a saute pan and cook onions and garlic until soft. Three minutes or so. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.
  • In a large bowl whisk together eggs, milk, salt, pepper, nutmeg and 2 tablespoons of minced chives or scallions. Add bread, cheese and onions and mix until incorporated.
  • Cover and refrigerate for at least 1/2 hour.
  • When ready to cook dumplings, melt two tablespoons of butter and 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a saute pan until bubbling.
  • Take about 1/3 cup of dumpling mixture and make a ball and flatten out with your hands to form a disk (think crab cake).
  • Fry dumplings in butter until golden brown on both sides (about 2-3 minutes per side). I did mine in batches of two per batch and made eight dumplings.
  • Heat up broth until hot.
  • Place two dumplings per bowl and pour hot broth over them. (The hot broth will melt the cheese even more).
  • Top with chopped chives or scallions and serve.

Notes

If you don't have homemade stock, buy the packaged "box" chicken or beef stock. Heat up with one bay leaf, 1/4 tsp salt and pepper, one clove of garlic minced, and maybe a pinch of a red pepper flake. This will "doctor" it up a bit and make it a little more flavorful.
I adapted this recipe from Traditional Tyrol recipes (www.hubertkrenn.at) if you want to check out other Tyrolean recipes.
Looking for a great chicken stock recipe? Here you go!http://www.rockymountaincooking.com/2018/10/homemade-chicken-stock-3/