Plum Dumplings

That's a very delicious, quick, easy and light dinner :) Soft, sweet, might be served with butter, sugar or shredded coconut. Children love it! It is definitely worth trying! :)

Recipe comes from my Grandmum :)

Ingredients:

• 10 boiled potatoes
• 2-3 pinches of salt
• around 300 g of flour
• 500 g of plums
• 1 egg

Extra ingredients:

• butter
• sugar
• shredded coconut

Preparation:

1. Take a middle-size clean pot, fill with water, add some salt (2-3 pinches).
2. Add potatoes and boil them till soft (10-15 minutes).
3. In the meantime, wash the plums, throw away the kernels, cut the plums into halves.
4. Take a pot, pour water inside, start boiling.
5. Take a big bowl, put boiled potatoes inside, smash till you get a smooth 'dough', cool down.
6. Add flour, and egg, knead till you get a dough, which is not extremely sticky and you can form a ball (which is why I put 'around' 300g of flour - depending on your potatoes - some of them come out more sticky after boiling, some of them less = in some cases you might need more/less flour). Make the ball flat. Put one half of the plum in the middle of the dough, add 1/2 teaspoon of sugar, close(it needs to be done very precisely), forming a ball again.*
7. When the water in the second pot is boling, put your dumplings inside, boil for around 5-7 minutes.**
8. Take them out of the water (they cannot remain in the water).
9. Here you can distribute extra ingredients over boiled dumplings - some butter to melt or sprinkle them with sugar/shredded coconut.
10. Bon Appetit! :)

* It is not necessary to add sugar, you can make them without any sugar (but they might come out sour, especially if the plums are sour, so I do recommed adding it).

** If the dumplings 'swim' on the top of the water, they're ready.

Barley Soup (Krupnik)

Well-known Polish soup, boiled on vegetable/chicken stock with barley :) So easy, standard, tasty and filling, great for children :) 

Recipe from my Mum :)

Ingredients:

• 3 litres of water
• 500g of chicken breasts
• 3-4 big carrots
• 5 potatoes
• 1-2 parsleys
• 1/2 or 1/4 of a celery
• 1/2 onion or 1 green part of a leek
• 3-4 bay leaves
• 3-4 allspice pieces
• 150-200g of barley
• 4 tablespoons of ghee
• 1-3 teaspoons of black, ground pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• vegeta
• chopped parsley(green part, leaves) or dill (optional, though worth adding)

Preparation:

1. Take a big pot. Put water inside.
2. Wash chicken breasts, cut into cubes, add to the pot, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Start boiling (around 10-15 minutes on an average heat).
3. Using a spoon take out the 'foam' from the top of the soup and throw it away.
4. Wash all the vegetables. Peel and throw away the skins.
5. Cut carrots, parsley and onion/leek into slices, potatoes and celery into cubes.
6. When the water in the pot boils, add onion/leek to the pot, chopped celery and parsley. Boil for 15 minutes on an average or low heat.
7. Add carrots and potatoes and continue boiling.
8. Add 3-4 tablespoons of ghee, bay leaves, allspice and barley. Stir and keep boiling. Stir all the time for 5 minutes so that the barley doesn't burn.
9. Boil for 30 minutes and - if needed - season with vegeta and pepper.
10. Add chopped parsley or dill. It is also possible to sprinkle a particular plate with parsley or dill, it's not necessary to add it to the entire pot with the soup.
11. Bon Appetit! :)

Wholemeal rolls

Very easy, very tasty, very quick and healthy! :) And, what is a big advantage, it is possible to heat them up in a microwave before eating or freeze :) And they're absolutely mouthwatering after a short meeting with microwave... Recipe from: http://www.kwestiasmaku.com/domowa_piekarnia/buleczki_razowe/przepis.html

Ingredients:

• 2 boiled and smashed potatoes
• 420 g of wholemeal flour
• 1,5 teaspoon of salt
• 2 and 1/4 teaspoon of instant yeast (or 14 g of fresh yeast)
• 3 tablespoons of sugar
• 1/2 glass of milk
• 40 g of butter
• 3/4 glass of milk
• 1 egg - separately egg yolk and white

Additional ingredients:

• 4-6 tablespoons of favourite grains
• poppy - to sprinkle the tops

Preparation:

1. Peel and boil potatoes. Smash, take 3/4 glass of them, put aside.
2. Take a big bowl, put flour, salt, yeast, sugar and 1/2 of milk inside. Stir.
3. Take a pot, put 3/4 of milk and butter inside. Boil on a low heat till the butter melts (it needs to be warm, not hot, not 100C). 
4. Prepare a clean surface - sprinkle it with flour.
5. Make some empty space in the middle of the bowl, put milk with butter inside and add potatoes. Stir. Add egg yolk and grains. Knead the dough (it will be sticky).
6. Put the dough on a spinkled surface and knead for another 10 minutes (it is highly probable that some more flour will be needed) till the dough is smooth, flexible and not sticky. 
7. Put it in a bowl, cover with clean cloth and put aside for 1,5 hours.
8. Take a baking tray, grease it and put a baking paper all over it. 
9. Start preheating the oven to 175C.
10. Take the dough, start forming rolls in a desired size* and put on a baking tray.
11. Beat the egg white and put some of it on every roll. Sprinkle every roll (for example) with poppy.
12. Put the baking tray with rolls in the middle height of the oven, bake for 30 minutes.
13. Take out from the oven, wait for 5 minutes and separate the rolls. Cool down.
14. Bon appetit! :)

* They shouldn't grow much which is why I advice making 6-10 bigger rolls