knedle.
Boiled ball- or oval-shaped dumplings with a filling, with the dough either being potato-based or made of choux pastry, or sometimes curd-based, and filled with fruits (whole strawberries, prune plums, apricots, pieces of apples), mushrooms, curd cheese, meat, and other ingredients, popular in Central and Eastern European countries, the fruit-filled variant being eaten as dessert, a main dish, or a side dish.
Meaning & usage
Boiled ball- or oval-shaped dumplings with a filling, with the dough either being potato-based or made of choux pastry, or sometimes curd-based, and filled with fruits (whole strawberries, prune plums, apricots, pieces of apples), mushrooms, curd cheese, meat, and other ingredients, popular in Central and Eastern European countries, the fruit-filled variant being eaten as dessert, a main dish, or a side dish.
Where this word comes from
From Czech, Polish, and Slovak knedle, etc. Doublet of knaidel, knoedel, and quenelle.
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