Potato Dumplings with Cheese | Lithuanian Cepelinai (Zeppelin)

Welcome to my channel! Hello everyone! I'm so excited because today I'll show you how to make cepelinai with cottage cheese filling. Now you might think this sounds crazy but it's so popular in Lithuania and in Eastern Europe in general and I used to have them a lot as a kid. And this is basically a potato thing like stuffed with cottage cheese inside and then it's boiled and topped with crispy bacon and onions and sour cream and that is just a dream come true. In Russian it's called цепелина с творогом. I hope you enjoyed this video. Don't forget to give me a big thumbs up and leave your comments down below. And don't forget to subscribe as well. It really makes me happy. And now let's get started. The first thing we're going to do is peel our potatoes. Add about 4-5 potatoes into a pan and we're going to boil them. Add the rest of the potatoes into a deeper dish with cold water and onions. Add cottage cheese into your bowl, add some salt, mix it through. Put your raw potatoes in a food processor and blend until nice and smooth. You should have a large pot of potatoes like that. We're gonna squeeze all the water out of it. You need to make sure you squeeze all the juice out of your potato. It needs to be completely dry and keep the juice for later. Once Once your potatoes are cooked you need to mash them up. Add salt and pepper. You should have two big balls of raw and cooked potato and we're going to mix them together. Take a big handful of your potato, flatten it out and place one side and then fold it in and gently wrap around and form a nice big cepelinai. In a small bowl add your potato juice and then at the very bottom you can see there is our starch so we're gonna add about one tablespoon. Into your hot pot of water add salt and potato starch with juice. Cook them for about five to eight minutes on a very low heat. I've had few and they're so filling and so delicious and I'm going to be making them with other fillings so don't forget to check my channel out in the next few weeks. Give me a big thumbs up, don't forget to leave your comments down below. If you want me to make anything else Leave your requests and I'll see you in the next episode. Bye