Blackberry Fruit Dumpling Recipes

BLACKBERRIES AND DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Combine blackberries, sugar, water and nutmeg in a saucepan on top of the stove. Bring to a boil, then turn down to medium boil and cover the pot. In a bowl whisk together the all-purpose flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Mix the milk into the flour mixture with a spoon. Your dough should be where you can flour your hands and pull off pieces and roll into balls about the size of a walnut. I just put some flour on a paper plate and flour my hands good to do this
• You can add a little more flour to the dumplings if you need to so you can handle the dough. Remove lid from pot and drop in the dumplings. Replace the top and cook 5 to 7 minutes until dumplings are cooked. You should get 11 to 12 dumplings from your dough. Makes about six servings.
• (I consider a serving 2 dumplings' with sauce ladled over them.) Serve with ice cream or whipped cream for dessert or a treat anytime.

BLACKBERRY FRUIT DUMPLING

Steps:

• In a 6-qt. kettle, combine the blackberries, sugar, water and butter; bring to a boil., For dumplings, combine the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. In a large bowl, beat egg and milk; stir in dry ingredients until a soft dough forms. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto boiling berry mixture. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until dumplings test done (do not lift the cover while simmering)., Serve warm with cream if desired.

JUANITA'S BLACKBERRY DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Place blackberries, sugar, water, butter, and cinnamon in a large saucepan. Cook and stir occasionally over medium heat until have started to break down and form a sauce, about 20 to 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, whisk together the flour and salt in a mixing bowl. Cut in the shortening with a knife or pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir the egg yolk into the crumbs. Add the milk a tablespoon at a time, tossing with a fork, until the flour mixture is moistened. Do not add more milk than you need: when you squeeze a handful of the moistened pastry mixture, it should form a ball. Divide the dough in half and shape into balls.
• Roll one ball into a 1/4-inch thick round, like a pie crust. Using a floured knife cut lengthwise 2 to 3 inch wide strips of dough. Repeat with the second ball of dough.
• Holding each strip of dough over the boiling blackberries pinch off 4-inch lengths and drop into the berries. Repeat until all the dough has been used. Cook the dumplings over medium heat for 15 minutes. You may push the dumplings down into the juice but do not stir until they are fully cooked or they will clump together.

BLACKBERRY DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, combine the blackberries, 1 cup sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt and lemon extract. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes., Meanwhile, in a bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, nutmeg and remaining sugar and salt. Add milk; stir just until mixed. (Dough will be very thick.), Drop by tablespoonfuls into 6 mounds onto hot blackberry mixture; cover tightly and simmer for 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in a dumpling comes out clean. , Spoon into serving dishes. Serve with cream or whipped cream if desired.

BLACKBERRY DUMPLING COBBLER

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease 13x9-inch (3-quart) glass baking dish with shortening or cooking spray.
• In 3-quart saucepan, heat blackberries, 1 1/3 cups of the sugar and the butter to boiling over medium heat, stirring gently until butter is melted and sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat; set aside.
• In large bowl, beat cream cheese and remaining 2/3 cup sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy. Beat in milk until smooth. Stir in Bisquick mix and oats. Spread two-thirds of the cream cheese mixture (about 3 cups) in baking dish; spoon blackberry mixture evenly over top. Dollop remaining cream cheese mixture over blackberry mixture.
• Bake 35 minutes or until filling is bubbly and topping is golden brown. Serve warm with ice cream.

BLACKBERRY DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Mix blackberries, 1/3 cup sugar, the water and lemon juice in 3 1/2- or 4-quart slow cooker.
• Cover and cook on low heat setting 3 to 4 hours (or high heat setting 1 1/2 to 2 hours) or until mixture is boiling.
• Mix baking mix and 2 tablespoons sugar in small bowl. Stir in milk just until dry ingredients are moistened. Drop dough by 6 spoonfuls onto hot berry mixture. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
• Cover and cook on high heat setting 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of dumplings comes out clean.
• To serve, spoon dumpling into dessert dish. Spoon berry mixture over dumpling. Top with whipping cream.

BLACKBERRY DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Mix berries,water, 1 cup sugar, 1/4 t salt and lemon in large, wide saucepan.
• Bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes.
• For dumplings: Combine flour,1 T sugar, baking powder, 1/4 t salt, nutmeg and milk.
• Stir until mixed.
• Drop by TBS into berry mixture.
• Cover tightly and simmer 15 minutes.
• Serve in bowls with a dollop of whipped cream.

BLACKBERRY DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Combine blackberries, sugar, butter, and lemon juice in a saucepan over medium heat; cook and stir until blackberries start to break down, 5 to 10 minutes. Stir flour and salt into blackberry mixture; add water until desired consistency is reached. Bring to a simmer.
• Place tortillas into the simmering blackberry mixture; simmer until tortilla "dumplings" are tender but not soggy, about 5 minutes.

MAMA LACHUTE'S BLACKBERRY DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• For the blackberry filling:
• In a medium saucepan, combine the blackberries with the sugar, 3 cups of the water and lemon juice. Cook until the berries are soft and a heavy syrup has formed, about 15 minutes.
• Remove from the heat and strain off the syrup from the berries. Set the berries aside with 1/2 cup of the syrup and return the remaining syrup to the saucepan.
• Add the remaining 1 cup water, the vanilla, and the butter to the syrup in the saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
• For the dumpling dough:
• In a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
• Using a pastry blender, 2 knives, or your fingertips, cut in the 6 tablespoons butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in the warm water. Add the yeast mixture and the buttermilk to the flour mixture, stirring only until just incorporated. Do not overwork the dough.
• Drop the biscuit dough, by the tablespoonful, in batches, into boiling syrup and cook until the dumplings float to the surface and they are cooked through, about 5 minutes.
• Remove the dumplings from the syrup and place in small bowls. Ladle some of the hot syrup and cooked berries over the top of the dumplings. Serve garnished with a dollop of whipped cream or a small scoop of ice cream.

WARM BERRIES 'N' DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• In a medium skillet, cook berries, lemon juice, 4 tablespoons sugar, and 1/4 cup water over medium until slightly thickened, 11 to 13 minutes.
• Meanwhile, in a bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and 2 tablespoons sugar; add melted butter and buttermilk, and stir until a moist dough forms. Dividing evenly, spoon 6 dollops of dough over fruit. Combine cinnamon and 1 teaspoon sugar, and sprinkle over dough.
• Cover pan tightly with foil, and cook over medium-low until dumplings are set and tops are dry to the touch, about 15 minutes. Serve warm.

BLACKBERRY DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Combine blackberries, water, tapioca and 2/3 cup sugar in large skillet. Let stand 5 min.
• Meanwhile, stir baking mix, sour cream, milk and remaining sugar just until baking mix is moistened.
• Bring blackberry mixture to full boil on medium heat, stirring constantly. Simmer on medium-low heat 5 min. or until blackberries begin to soften, stirring frequently.
• Spoon dough into 4 mounds over fruit mixture in skillet; cook on medium-high heat 2 min. Cover skillet; cook on low heat 15 min. or until toothpick inserted in dumplings comes out clean. Cool slightly.

GLUTEN-FREE BLUEBERRY DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Place berries, water, sugar and lemon juice in 4-quart saucepan on stove.
• Bring to gentle boil while preparing dough.
• In mixing bowl, cream sugar and butter.
• Beat in the egg.
• Stir in buttermilk alternately with sifted dry ingredients.
• Do not overbeat- this will be a fairly stiff dough.
• Drop dough by 8 small spoonfuls onto the boiling fruit sauce.
• Cover, turn down to simmer, and cook without removing lid for 20 minutes.
• Serve hot in small bowls with fruit sauce spooned over the dumplings.
• Top with cream, whipped cream, or ice cream.