Potato Soup With Butter Dumplings

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 1/2 cup chopped celery
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 6 cups cubed peeled potatoes
• 4 cups water
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 beaten eggs
• 3/4 cup sour cream
• 2 tablespoons snipped parsley

Recipe

• 1 in a large saucepan or dutch oven cook the onion and celery in the 1 tablespoon butter until tender.
• 2 add potatoes, water, salt, and pepper.
• 3 bring to boiling,
• 4 reduce heat; simmer, covered, 20 minutes until potatoes are nearly tender.
• 5 meanwhile, combine flour, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and nutmeg. cut in the 2 tablespoons butter until crumbly. beat in eggs, one at a time.
• 6 using a scant teaspoon for each, drop dumplings into bubbling soup.
• 7 cover, simmer 10 minutes.
• 8 gradually stir 1 cup of the hot soup into the sour cream, then return mixture to pot.
• 9 heat through, but do not boil.
• 10 serve in bowls; sprinkle with parsley.