Dumplings

🇮🇹Piedmont, Italy

Gnocchi alla bava

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

🇮🇹Italy

Gnocchi alla Sorrentina

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

🇮🇹Veneto, Italy

Gnocchi con la fioretta

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

🇮🇹Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

Gnocchi di prugne

Gnocchi di prugne is a named Italian dumpling from Friuli-Venezia Giulia, pairing its characteristic shape or filling with a defining sauce, broth, or seasoning; the form distinguishes it from a generic version.

🇮🇹Tuscany, Italy

Gnocchi di ricotta

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

🇭🇺Hungary

Golden Dumplings

Arany galuska

Golden dumplings are yeast dough balls dipped in butter and a sugar-walnut mixture, baked, and served with custard.

🇦🇺Australia

Golden Syrup Dumplings

Soft flour-and-butter dumplings simmered covered in golden syrup and water until they swell and a glossy butterscotch sauce forms around them, served hot with cream — a colonial-era winter dessert still standard in Australian homes.

🇷🇴Romania

Gomboti

Gomboți

Potato-dough plum dumplings boiled until tender and rolled in toasted breadcrumbs, with the fruit melting into a tart center.

🇨🇳China

Goubuli

狗不理包子

Tianjin's soup-filled pork buns, established in 1858 and hand-pleated ever since — a protected time-honoured brand eaten at its own restaurants.

🇸🇮Slovenia

Grušavi žlinkrofi

Grušavi žlinkrofi are Upper Savinja dumplings filled with pear and cottage cheese, boiled and served warm.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Guanime

A Puerto Rican corn dumpling of fresh masa wrapped in corn husks and boiled, often served with milk or stew.

🇰🇵Pyongan, North Korea

Gulmandu

굴만두

Small dumplings without a thick covering, listed as a Pyongan province representative dish; the wrapper is thin and the filling is mostly meat and vegetables; steamed and served in quantity; a Pyongan specialty that emphasizes the filling over the dough; eaten with soy sauce and vinegar.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

Gurza

Gürzə

Pinched dumplings sealed with a crimped ridge along the top, filled with lamb and onion and boiled in broth.

🇯🇵Japan

Gyoza

餃子

Japanese pan-fried dumplings filled with pork, cabbage, and garlic, with a crisp bottom and soft top.

🇱🇮Liechtenstein

Hafalääb

Hafalaab

Hand-sized Liechtenstein corn-semolina and flour dumpling patties made with milk and egg, poached and then fried in butter for sweet or savoury serving.

🇨🇴Colombia

Hallaca

Maize dough stained with annatto, spread on plantain leaves and filled with a stew of beef, pork, chicken, olives, capers and raisins, tied and boiled — made only at Christmas.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Halushky

Галушки

Halushky are small pieces of boiled wheat dough served with sour cream, gravy, or pork cracklings.

🇧🇹Haa, Bhutan

Hoentay

ཧོན་ཏེ།

Buckwheat dough folded around turnip greens, cheese, spinach and chilli and steamed, made in the Haa valley for the Lomba new year.

🇩🇪Saarland, Germany

Hoorische

Hoorische are Saarland potato dumplings made from a mixture of cooked and raw potato, often served with bacon sauce.

🇵🇪Peru

Humitas Peruanas

Humitas

Peruvian fresh corn tamales, sweet or savory, wrapped in corn husks and steamed. Common in the sierra for breakfast.

🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

Hüdel

Hüdel are Lower Saxony flour-and-potato dumplings boiled and served with bacon, gravy or fruit depending on the table.

🇸🇮Slovenian Littoral, Slovenia

Idrija Žlikrofi

Idrijski žlikrofi

Small hand-shaped dumplings of thin dough around a potato, bacon and marjoram filling, pinched into a hat shape — protected, and made only in Idrija.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Jatrove Knedlicky

Játrové knedlíčky

Small liver dumplings served in beef broth.

🇵🇪Peru

Juane de Yuca

A Peruvian Amazonian cassava dumpling filled with chicken and olives, wrapped in bijao leaves and boiled. A jungle variation of juane.

🇵🇪Peru

Kam Lu Wantan

Chifa dish: wontons in sweet-sour tamarind sauce with meat and vegetables

🇨🇿Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic

Karlovy Vary Dumpling

Karlovarský knedlík

Large, sliced bread dumpling from the spa town of Karlovy Vary, served with roast meats.

🇵🇱Podlasie, Poland

Kartacze

A northeastern Polish (Podlasie) potato dumpling stuffed with meat, similar to pyzy but smaller and oval. A regional specialty, hearty and savory, served with bacon.

🇦🇹Austria

Kaspressknödel

Pressed Alpine cheese dumplings made from bread, cheese, onion, and herbs; broth is one common serving.

🇹🇭Thailand

Khanom Tom

ขนมต้ม

Glutinous rice balls filled with palm sugar, boiled, and rolled in fresh grated coconut.

🇬🇪Georgia

Khinkali

Хинкали

Large pleated dumplings of spiced minced meat and broth, twisted into a thick doughy knot, boiled and eaten by hand with black pepper.

🇲🇳Mongolia

Khuushuur

Хуушуур

Flat half-moon pastry filled with minced mutton and onion, sealed and fried in mutton fat until blistered and golden.

🇰🇷South Korea

King Dumplings

왕만두

Large, round steamed buns with a thick wrapper and generous filling of pork, beef, sprouts, tofu, and kimchi.

🇧🇦Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Klepe

Small square dumplings of thin dough around minced beef, boiled and served under garlic yogurt and melted butter with paprika.

🇳🇴Norway

Klimpor fra Ryfylke (Ryfylke Dumplings)

Klimpor fra Ryfylke

Klimpor fra Ryfylke (Ryfylke Dumplings) is a dumpling from Rogaland County, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇳🇴Northern Norway, Norway

Klubb og fett

Klubb og fett is a dumpling from Northern Norway, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇵🇱Silesia, Poland

Kluski Czarne

'Black' Silesian dumplings: potato dumplings made with mashed and grated raw potatoes, giving them a dark, grayish color. Served with rolada and red cabbage, a Silesian specialty.