Duck and turkey liver dumplings

We're starting with something crazy! Since, in most of cases the leftovers are bad for pupps, and we can't stand the idea of not giving something tasty to our dog after dinner, we should think about it before starting cooking. The ingredients of many dishes I prepare for Nuka are based on a meal I cook for us - I need to do some adjustments first though, so the food was suitable for a dog. Just like in case of these Polish-style dumplings. Before adding salt, spices and herbs part of the stuffing i put into another bowl. The same thing i did with the dough.

Stuffing:
- 60 dag duck meat (any part of duck - boiled or oven-baked)
- 40 dag turkey liver (fried for 4-5 minutes)
- 10 dag millet
- 50 g flat leaf parsley
- 4  carrots
- 1 root parsley
- 1 leek
- 1 celeriac
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1 egg


First, I boiled water and cooked carrots, leek, celeriac and root parsley until soft. In the meantime I fried livers quickly over a high heat. They don't need much time. You can take them out of the pan as soon as they gain brown colour (usually it takes about 3 minutes) and leave them to rest and cool off.


After that, I cooked the millet. I started mincing from the duck legs roasted in oven for our dinner a couple days before (As usually - I had some of them backed with no use of spices or whatsover).

Then I minced fried livers and cooked millet and veggies. At the end I added finely chopped flat leaf parsley, olive oil and whisked egg and mixed all the ingredients until smooth. It's good to put the filling to fridge for at least 15 minutes before start making dumplings.



You can make the filling also for yourself. All you need to do is spice them up a little. I used salt, ground pepper, a pinch of cayenne pepper, herbs de Provence and a little bit more majoram. For us I also added diced onion, which I fried on butter.


Dough:
- 6 cups wheat flour
- 1 tbs butter
- 1 egg
- approx. 3 cups water

Warm up the water until it's lukewarm. Pour it into a bowl. Slowly add the flour, than butter and egg and knead until all the ingredients are well combined and the dough smooth and pliable. Roll out, cut out circles using a baking cutter or a glass. Put batter mounds onto the circles and close it forming semicircles.

Boil the dumplings for about 7-8 minutes or until they float.

Preparing the dough for dumplings for yourself you should add 3 tsp of salt.


For Nuka we sprinkled the dumplings with olive oil.

For us we chose grated parmesan cheese and diced prosciutto ;) Dumplings should be moist and light. We managed to eat 8 pieces each and didn't feel full at all. Nuka ate 4 - we don't want to spoil her ;)

Enjoy!