Delicate hat-shaped potato dumplings filled with marjoram-scented mash, served with a slow-cooked lamb ragù called bakalca—buttery, herby, deeply comforting. 🍖✨
Hook: Make once, freeze extras—fresh or from frozen, they cook in minutes and carry sauce like little champs. ⚡
Ingredients
Servings: 4
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🥟 Dumpling Dough
🌾 All-purpose flour: 300 g (2½ cups / 10.6 oz)
🥚 Egg: 1 large (50 g / 1.8 oz)
💧 Warm water: 90–110 ml (⅓–½ cup / 3.4–3.7 fl oz)
🧂 Salt: to taste (≈3 g / ½ tsp)
🧈 Melted butter or neutral oil (for kneading): 15 ml (1 tbsp / 0.5 fl oz)
🥔 Potato Filling
🥔 Floury potatoes, peeled: 600 g (4 cups / 21 oz)
🧈 Butter or lard: 30 g (2 tbsp / 1.1 oz)
🧅 Onion, very fine dice: 80 g (⅔ cup / 2.8 oz)
🌿 Dried marjoram (classic): 1 g (1 tsp / 0.04 oz)
🧂 Salt: to taste (≈6 g / 1 tsp)
⚫ Black pepper: 0.5 g (⅛ tsp / 0.02 oz)
🥚 Egg yolk (to bind, optional): 1 (18 g / 0.6 oz)
🍖 Bakalca (Lamb Ragù)
🫒 Olive oil or lard: 30 ml (2 tbsp / 1 fl oz)
🧅 Onion, fine dice: 250 g (1⅔ cups / 8.8 oz)
🥕 Carrot, fine dice: 100 g (¾ cup / 3.5 oz)
🌿 Celery stalk, fine dice: 80 g (⅔ cup / 2.8 oz)
🧄 Garlic, minced: 6 g (2 cloves / 0.2 oz)
🐑 Lamb/mutton shoulder, small cubes: 600 g (1.3 lb)
🍷 Dry white wine: 200 ml (¾ cup + 1 tbsp / 6.8 fl oz)
🍅 Tomato paste: 20 g (1 tbsp / 0.7 oz)
💧 Beef/veg stock or water: 500 ml (2 cups / 17 fl oz)
🌿 Bay leaf: 1
🌿 Marjoram or thyme: 1 g (1 tsp / 0.04 oz)
🧂 Salt: to taste (≈10 g / 1¾ tsp)
⚫ Black pepper: 1 g (½ tsp / 0.04 oz)
(Optional thickener) 🌾 Flour: 8 g (1 tbsp / 0.28 oz) whisked into 30 ml (2 tbsp) cold water
To Serve
🧈 Melted butter, for tossing: 20 g (1½ tbsp / 0.7 oz)
🌿 Parsley, finely chopped: 1 tbsp (4 g / 0.14 oz)
Preparation
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Total Time
🕒 Prep: 40 min
🔥 Cook: 1 h 10 min
⏳ Total: ~1 h 50 min
Nutritional Value
🔋 Energy: ~560 kcal
💪 Protein: ~28 g
🧈 Fat: ~22 g
🍞 Carbohydrates: ~60 g
🧂 Sodium: ~820 mg
🔥 560 kcal💪 28 g protein🍞 60 g carbs🧈 22 g fat
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Advice
Cool the potato filling completely before shaping—warm mash softens the dough and the “hats” lose their edges.
Why it works
A firmer, well-rested dough holds clean folds; marjoram lifts the mild potato filling; a slow, low simmer gelatinizes the lamb’s collagen so the sauce clings to every dumpling.
Twist
Make it veg: swap lamb for 400 g (3 cups / 14 oz) mixed mushrooms; add 1 tbsp soy sauce to deepen the ragù. Or go butter-sage—skip bakalca and toss žlikrofi with 40 g browned butter and crispy sage.
Status
Slovenian “little hats” under a cozy lamb sauce—Idrija žlikrofi worthy of a festival plate. #grannyzen #slovenianfood #zlikrofi 🥟🇸🇮
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