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Quark dumplings with sour cherries and breadcrumbs

Name: Quark dumplings with sour cherries and breadcrumbs
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 500 g Quark (farmer's cheese) (curdy); 1 Egg; 100 g Fine wheat semolina (farina) (extra-fine); 150 g Semi-coarse wheat flour; pinch Salt; 300 g Sour cherries (pitted); 80 g Breadcrumbs; 60 g Butter; 3 tbsp Superfine sugar (caster sugar)

Quark dough dumplings filled with sour cherries, boiled and coated in breadcrumbs toasted with butter and sugar. Makes 4 servings.

Slovak cuisine · Vegetarian · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 55 min
Servings: 4 servings
Difficulty: Medium
Cuisine: Slovak

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Quark dumplings with sour cherries are a sweet lunch made with a soft dough of quark (farmer's cheese), egg, semolina, and flour, wrapped around a few pitted sour cherries. The cooked dumplings are coated in breadcrumbs toasted in butter and sprinkled with sugar.

Ingredients

4 servings

Dough

Quark (farmer's cheese) (curdy) 500 g
Egg 1
Fine wheat semolina (farina) (extra-fine) 100 g
Semi-coarse wheat flour 150 g
Salt pinch

Filling

Sour cherries (pitted) 300 g

Topping

Breadcrumbs 80 g
Butter 60 g
Superfine sugar (caster sugar) 3 tbsp

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Instructions

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Make the dough
10 min
Mix the quark with the egg, salt, and semolina. Add the flour and work into a soft dough that is not sticky. Let rest for 10 minutes.
Shape the dumplings
20 min
Divide the dough into 12 pieces. Flatten each piece in your palm, place 3–4 sour cherries in the center, and enclose them in the dough to form a ball. Press the edges together firmly to seal.
Cook the dumplings
12 min
Lower the dumplings into gently boiling salted water and cook for 8–10 minutes after they float to the surface. Remove with a slotted spoon.
Coat the dumplings
5 min
Toast the breadcrumbs in the butter until golden, stir in the sugar, and coat the cooked dumplings in the mixture. Serve warm.

Tip: If the quark is wet, let it drain in a strainer beforehand; wet quark makes the dough sticky and causes the dumplings to fall apart during cooking.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 646 kcal
Protein: 29 g
Carbohydrates: 86 g
of which sugars: 22 g
Fat: 21 g
of which saturates: 12 g
Fiber: 3.6 g
Salt: 1.0 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Tvarohové knedle s višňami a opraženou strúhankou