If you don’t know Saxon curds made from grandma’s recipe, we urgently need to change that! Quarkkeulchen are small pancakes made from boiled potatoes and quark that couldn’t be juicier, just like the quark pancakes and the quark pockets.
Ingredients for juicy quark drumsticks according to grandma’s recipe:
Quark balls consist of just a few simple ingredients, most of which you probably already have at home:
- potatoes
- Quark
- Flour
- Sugar
- egg
- Salt
- Lemon zest
- clarified butter
How can I make the best curds myself?
Preparing Saxon curds according to Grandma’s recipe is quite easy, even if shaping the curds is a bit of a mess.
First, grate the boiled and cooled jacket potatoes or press them through a press. Then you add flour, an egg, sugar, lemon zest and of course the quark and knead everything with a wooden spoon into a very wet and soft dough.
Small flat cakes are formed from the dough, which you immediately roll in flour and, ideally, fry in a pan with hot fat immediately after rolling.
What tastes good with curds?
The curds are served either sweet or savory. Sweet curds are traditionally eaten with applesauce and a little powdered sugar. Or you can serve cherry compote with sugar and cinnamon.
For the hearty version of the quark legs, I recommend fried onions and bacon. It is particularly delicious with fresh salad and tzatziki.
Which potatoes are best to use for curds?
For the Quarkkeulchen recipe, it is best to use floury potatoes, which you boil with the skin on in salted water and then peel. It is important that you let the potatoes cool completely before pressing or grating them for the dough.
Jacket potatoes from the day before are also very suitable. Saxon curds made from Grandma’s recipe are ideal for using up leftovers.
Can I prepare curds and how long do they last?
Quark drumsticks are easy to prepare. The potatoes are already cooked anyway if you use potatoes from the day before and the dough for the curds is quick to make.
You should only start shaping the small potato pancakes shortly before you fry them. Freshly formed, rolled in flour and baked, the curds simply taste the best.
You can find even more delicious potato recipes on our blog. And you shouldn’t miss Grandma’s lunch recipes either.
And anyone who likes a sweet lunch will love our grandma-style rice casserole and the Austrian Kaiserschmarrn. Potato pancakes are also often eaten sweetly with applesauce.
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Have fun preparing and enjoying.
- 500 G Potatoes (cooking until floury)
- 250 G Quark
- 50 G Flour (and something for rolling)
- 25 G Sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 TL Lemon zest
- prize Salt
- Butter or oil for baking
- some powdered sugar
- applesauce
Calories: 250kcal | Carbohydrates: 38G | Protein: 12G | Fat: 5G