Dumplings

🇨🇭Switzerland

Capuns

Spätzli dough mixed with cured meat and herbs, wrapped in chard leaves and simmered in milk and stock, then baked under cheese.

🇨🇱Los Lagos, Chile

Chapalele

Chiloé potato dumpling made with cooked potato, flour, and lard, cooked in curanto or oven, soft and hearty.

🇦🇹Tyrol, Austria

Cheese Dumplings

Käseknödel

Cheese dumplings from Tyrol, made with stale bread and local mountain cheese, good cheese flavor with light texture, a hearty Alpine specialty.

🇺🇸United States

Chicken and Dumplings

A Southern comfort dish of chicken simmered in broth with soft, drop-style dumplings.

🇫🇲Yap State (Western FSM), Federated States of Micronesia

Cholgoy

Cholgoy is cooked yam pounded into soft balls for young children, sometimes lightly sweetened for an easy-to-chew Pohnpeian preparation.

🇦🇼Aruba

Christmas Tamale

Ayaca

Ayaca; a Christmas staple in Aruba with as many recipes as families; cornmeal dough spread on banana or plantain leaves; filled with chicken, pork, prunes, raisins, olives, cashew nuts, ham, and piccalilli; folded in leaves, tied with string, and boiled for an hour; families come together to prepare it listening to Christmas music

🇹🇲Turkmenistan

Chuchvara

Чучвара

Chuchvara is an Uzbek boiled dumpling filled with minced meat and spices, served in clear broth or with sour cream.

🇼🇸Samoa

Coconut Dumpling Soup

Kopai

Samoan sweet dumpling soup; dense, doughy dumplings called puka drenched in a gooey, soup-like sauce of coconut cream and brown sugar; a sweet version of dumpling soup; comforting and rich; served warm; the dessert that turns dumplings into a treat; a Samoan comfort food.

🇦🇸American Samoa

Coconut Dumplings

Faikakai

Samoan coconut dumpling dessert; dough dumplings boiled or steamed and drenched in coconut caramel sauce; sweet, sticky, and coconut-rich; similar to kopai but with a different texture; a traditional celebration dessert; served warm; the dumpling dessert of Samoa.

🇩🇲Dominica

Codfish Sancoche

A traditional Dominican dish of salted codfish cooked with coconut milk, breadfruit, dumplings, and ground provisions; a hearty, one-pot Creole stew; reflects the African and French influences on the island; the codfish sancoche of Dominica; a rich, coconutty fish stew; a rural Dominican specialty.

🇲🇩Moldova

Colțunași

Half-moon dumplings boiled and dressed with sour cream, filled with sheep's cheese and dill in summer or sour cherries in July.

🇲🇽Michoacán, Mexico

Corunda

A triangular Michoacán tamal of corn masa, often with a small filling of pork or beans.

🇺🇸United States

Crab Rangoon

A fried wonton stuffed with cream cheese and crab, served with sweet-and-sour sauce — a Chinese-American staple.

🇲🇶Martinique

Crayfish Dombrés

Dombrés aux Ouassous

Small dough balls simmered with freshwater crayfish (ouassous) and a spicy sauce; a typical specialty of Martinique; the dombrés aux ouassous that are a Martinican river specialty.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Curd Dumplings

Virtinukai

Boiled dumplings filled with sweet curd cheese, served with sour cream or jam.

🇳🇪Niger

Dan Wake

Small bean-flour dumplings served with pepper, oil and onion in northern Niger.

🇳🇪Kano, Niger

Dan Wake

Northern dumplings of bean and cassava flour boiled and tossed with oil, chilli, onion and kuli kuli crumbs.

🇯🇵Japan

Dango

団子

Skewered rice-flour dumplings, often grilled and glazed with a sweet soy-miso sauce (mitarashi).

🇳🇵Madhesh and Terai, Nepal

Dhikri

ढिक्री

Tharu and Terai cooks steam rice-flour dough into smooth dumplings, served with savoury curries or vegetables.

🇵🇬Papua New Guinea

Dia

Sweet sago and ripe banana dumpling steamed in banana-leaf wrapping, served with clotted coconut cream — a PNG dessert where the banana provides all the sweetness.

🇦🇺Melbourne, Australia

Dim Sim

Dimmy

Australian Chinese fusion: large cylindrical dumpling with meat and cabbage filling, steamed or deep-fried, invented in Melbourne in 1945, bigger than traditional dim sum.

🇿🇦South Africa

Dombolo (Dumplings)

Dombolo

South African steamed bread dumplings, served with stews and soups to soak up the sauce. A national and home staple, soft and golden, a comfort and rustic dish, a traditional and hearty companion

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Dumpling Stuffed with Smoked Meat

Knedlík plněný uzeným

Bread dumpling with a smoked-meat core, sliced and served with sauerkraut.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

Dushbara

Düşbərə

Minute dumplings of lamb mince folded so small that a hundred fit in a bowl, boiled and served in their own broth with vinegar and dried mint.

🇸🇰Eastern Slovakia, Slovakia

Dzatky

Džatky

Small Spiš potato dumplings, often served with bacon.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Eiernockerl

Eiernockerl are soft flour-and-egg dumplings tossed in butter and scrambled egg, usually finished with chives.

🇨🇲Cameroon

Ekwang

Grated cocoyam wrapped in small parcels of cocoyam leaf, packed into a pot and simmered for hours with palm oil, crayfish and smoked meat.

🇫🇲Kosrae State (Eastern FSM), Federated States of Micronesia

Fahfah

Fahfah is made from pounded taro or banana formed into balls and served with caramelized coconut syrup; the dumplings are dense, smooth, and lightly sweet.

🇹🇴Tonga

Faikakai Tōpai

Soft flour dumplings boiled until tender and covered with lolo, a dark caramelised sauce made from sugar and coconut cream.

🇳🇴Western Norway, Norway

Fiskeball (Fish Dumpling)

Fiskeball

A Norwegian variant of raspeball with minced fish added to the potato dough, a coastal and Western Norway specialty. A national and rustic dish, hearty and savory, a coastal and Thursday tradition, a unique and regional variant, a fish dumpling.

🇲🇲Myanmar

Floating Rice Balls

မုန့်လုံးရေပေါ်

Glutinous rice balls with a lump of palm sugar hidden inside, boiled until they float and rolled in grated coconut.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Flour Dumplings

Dombrés

Small flour dumplings; often served with meat in sauce or with red beans; a traditional Guadeloupean dish; the dombrés that are a Guadeloupean comfort food.

🇮🇩Bandung, Indonesia

Fried Fish Dumpling

Batagor

Bandung specialty of fried fish dumplings served with spicy peanut sauce and lime.

🇰🇼Kuwait

Gabout

قبوط

Flour dumplings stuffed with spiced minced meat and dropped into a thick meat and vegetable stew until they swell.

🇮🇹Italy

Gnocchi

Gnocchi is a named Italian dumpling from Italy, pairing its characteristic shape or filling with a defining sauce, broth, or seasoning; the form distinguishes it from a generic version.

🇮🇹Italy

Gnocchi al Castelmagno

Gnocchi al Castelmagno is a named Italian dumpling from Province of Cuneo, pairing its characteristic shape or filling with a defining sauce, broth, or seasoning; the form distinguishes it from a generic version.