BLUEBERRY DUMPLINGS

These blueberry dumplings are totally inspired from Paula's home cooking.Dumplings are "pieces of dough, sometimes filled, that are cooked in liquid " or "sweetened dough wrapped around fruit, such as an apple, baked and served as a dessert.(source - wiki).

Here small balls of sweet dough are slowly cooked in blueberry sauce.Its usually served warm or chilled with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or fresh cream.I love to have these just like that too.Its so mouth watering delicious.YUM!!!

I had to make some changes from the original recipe because of the amount of butter.Original recipe can be found here.

INGREDIENTS

All-purpose flour - 1 cup

sugar - 1/2 -3/4 cup + 2 tbsp

baking powder - 1 tsp

Pinch salt

butter- 3-4 tbsp,softened

milk - 1/4 cup

fresh or frozen blueberries - 2 cups

Vanilla essence - 1 1/2 tsp

Lemon juice - 1 tsp

water - 1 water

METHOD

Stir flour, 2 tbsp sugar, baking powder, and salt together into a medium bowl. Cut butter into dry ingredients, using a pastry cutter or fork. Add milk to form dough. Set dumpling dough aside.
In a large saucepan, combine berries, 1/2 -3/4 cups sugar(according to ur sweetness), vanilla essence and water and bring to a boil. Drop dumplings into hot boiling berries by the tablespoonful. Cover pot, reduce heat to low, and cook slowly for 20 to 30 minutes. Do not remove the lid before 20 minutes has passed, and do not stir dumplings.Add the lemon juice. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.