Gluten-Free Dumplings

These dumplings are delicious. We eat them with berry sauce, apple sauce, or chicken soup. Leftover berry sauce can be used on pancakes the next morning. Yum!

Notes:

When making dumplings, first start the sauce, and while it is heating, make and roll out the dumpling dough. If making apple dumplings, add ¼ a teaspoon cinnamon to the dough for extra flavor.

 

2 cups rice flour or oat flour

 

½ cup sugar or ¼ cup if you are making chicken dumplings instead of dessert ones.

1 cup potato starch

1 cup tapioca starch or cornstarch

1 teaspoon xanthan gum

1 tablespoon baking powder

½ a cup butter, grated or sliced very small

1 1/3 cups milk

 

Mix together all the ingredients except for butter and milk. Add the butter, and stir until blended. Add the milk, stir well, and roll into one inch balls. Drop dumpling balls into boiling sauce. Allow sauce to return to boil, then turn heat to low, cover, and let simmer for ten to fifteen minutes, until dumplings are fork tender.

 

 

Dumpling Apple Sauce:

1 tablespoon cinnamon

1 tablespoon cornstarch

two large apples, sliced

four cups water

dash of nutmeg

pinch of salt

Stir ingredients togethor in saucepan, bring to a gentle boil, stirring constantly. Add dumplings, turn heat to low, cover, and simmer for about fifteen minutes, until dumplings are fork-tender. Serve immediately with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, or plain with warm apple sauce poured over them.

 

Dumpling Fruit Sauce:

This sauce can be made with blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, or strawberries. It is generally a sweet sauce, and tastes good with vanilla ice-cream or whipped cream.

Three cups berries, if strawberries, halved

six cups water

1 tablespoon cornstarch

A pinch of salt

1 ½ cups sugar, more or less, depending upon your preference

½ teaspoon lemon juice

Stir sauce, and bring to a slow boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Do not boil for over three minutes. Add dumplings, turn heat to low, simmer, remove from heat when dumplings are fork tender. Serve warm.