Potato Klubb (Norwegian Potato Dumplings)

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 4 cups potatoes, peeled and grated

• 2 tablespoons grated onion
• 8 ounces cooked ham, cut into 1 inch cubes
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 cup melted butter 

Instructions

• Mix the flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, leavening, and pepper along in an exceedingly bowl. Place the potatoes and onion in an exceedingly giant bowl, and stir within the flour mixture till completely blended . Use floured hands to knead the potato mixture within the bowl till it takes on the standard of stiff dough. Add further flour if the dough is simply too sticky.

• Pinch off a lawn tennis ball-sized piece of dough and form it around a cube of ham, utterly covering the ham, to create a ball. Repeat with remaining dough and ham cubes. put aside any additional ham.

• Fill an oversized pot with water, add a pair of teaspoons salt and any additional ham, and convey to a overboil medium-high heat. fastidiously slide the balls into the boiling water, many at a time. Loosen any projecting to the lowest of the pot. Simmer for forty five minutes to one hour. take away with a slotted spoon, and drain on a plate. Serve hot with dissolved butter.