Haluski Traditional Gluten Free Recipes

HALUSKI, TRADITIONAL & GLUTEN FREE

Steps:

• 1. In a large cast iron skillet, or a non stick skillet will work great too. Melt two tablespoons of butter over medium high heat, add optional bacon (or Kielbasi if using) and cook until crisp. Remove from skillet and place on paper towels to drain off excess fat.
• 2. Meanwhile, In a separate pan, prepare egg noodles or gluten free tangliatelle noodles as per package directions. Cook al-dente, do not over-cook. Drain and rinse with cold water. Set aside. ** For GF, I bring water to a boil, add noodles and boil 3-4 minutes. Then turn off heat and cover. Stir every minute or so. They cook fast and tend to over-cook quickly. When they reach al-dente, drain, and rinse with cold water quickly to stop the cooking process. This method works very well to prevent soggy GF noodles.
• 3. In the skillet you prepared the bacon in, drain all but 3-4 tablespoons of bacon grease. (If you didn't use bacon or kielbasi, just use the full amount of butter to begin this step.) Add remaining butter & Heat again over medium heat. Add the cabbage, onions, & carrots to the pan & season with fresh grated sea salt and pepper to taste. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently to cook down cabbage. When cabbage has softened and cooked down, increase heat to high and cook until cabbage, onions, and carrots are slightly browned or golden. Add garlic, & cooked egg noodles or GF noodles and continue to cook until noodles are heated through and slightly golden, stirring constantly. Add crisp bacon last and toss with cabbage/noodle mixture to mix thoroughly. Add additional fresh cracked sea salt and pepper to taste. Garnish with fresh parsley and serve. ** This photo is the traditional haluski with egg noodles. Recipe photo is that of the Gluten Free, vegetarian version.

TRADITIONAL SLOVAK HALUSKI

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a large skillet over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Drain the bacon slices on paper towels. When bacon is cool, crumble and set aside.
• Place potatoes into a food processor and process until pureed, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and stir in flour, eggs, baking powder, and salt to make a sticky dough. Set dough aside.
• Fill a large pot about half full of lightly salted water and bring to a boil. Ladle large spoonfuls of the sticky dough to a small cutting board and use a knife to chop the dough into tablespoon-size pieces; as you cut off a piece, drop it into the boiling water. Let the dumplings boil over medium heat until they float, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove dumplings with a slotted spoon to a large serving bowl.
• Sprinkle bacon crumbles and a handful of shredded brick cheese over each batch of dumplings; continue to make, boil, and transfer dumplings to the bowl, sprinkling each batch with bacon and brick cheese. When all dumplings are made, gently stir the haluski to mix all ingredients.

THE BEST HALUSKI RECIPE

Steps:

• Hit SAUTE on the instant pot, and when it reads Hot pour the oil, add the onion and sauté until soft, about 5 minutes.
• Add garlic, oregano, thyme salt and pepper, stir and cook for 30 seconds.
• Hit CANCEL, and use some of the water to deglaze pot, if necessary
• Add the cabbage and the pasta and then, the water. The water won't cover the noodles, but this is fine. Add butter over the pasta
• Place the lid on the pressure cooker, make sure vent is on Sealing position, then hit PRESSURE COOK for 5 minutes. If using EGG noodles, the cook time changes to 2 minutes.
• When done, do a quick release. When pin drops, remove lid.
• Add the green peas and give it a quick stir.
• Serve warm garnished with chopped parsley and oregano and serve with sour cream or cottage cheese, if desired

EASY AND QUICK HALUSHKI

Steps:

• Snip bacon into small pieces with a scissors and cook in a large skillet over medium heat until crisp, stirring often, about 10 minutes. Cook and stir onion with bacon until translucent, about 5 more minutes; set bacon and onion aside, leaving drippings in the skillet.
• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook egg noodles in the boiling water, stirring occasionally until cooked through but firm to the bite, about 5 minutes. Drain.
• Transfer bacon and onion mixture with drippings into the pot used to cook the noodles and cook and stir cabbage until coated with drippings. Cover pot and cook until cabbage is tender, 10 to 12 minutes, stirring occasionally. Gently stir in noodles and season to taste with salt and black pepper.

SLOVAK HALUSKI

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook egg noodles in the boiling water, stirring occasionally until cooked through but firm to the bite, about 5 minutes. Drain.
• Melt butter in a skillet over low heat; cook and stir onion until onion is softened and butter is golden brown, 5 to 10 minutes. Add cabbage and toss to coat. Place a lid on the skillet; cook cabbage mixture, stirring occasionally, until cabbage is tender, about 30 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Remove lid and continue to cook until cabbage begins to brown, 5 to 10 more minutes.
• Mix noodles and cabbage together in a serving bowl; season with salt and pepper.

HALUSKI

Steps:

• Cut up bacon in bite size pieces and fry with chopped onion (I like my bacon crisp, but it's up to you).
• Meanwhile, put on large pot of water to boil.
• Peel potatoes, cut and grind up in a blender (If the mixture is too dry to blend, add the egg).
• In a large bowl, gradually mix flour with potato mush until loose batter is formed.
• Put a large scoop of the batter on a flat surface (I use the bottom of a springform pan).
• Holding the flat surface in one hand, use a fork with the other, pushing finger-size dumplings in the boiling water (They will rise as they cook).
• Gently stir, so they don't stick.
• After the dumplings are all cooked, drain them in a large colander and put them in a large serving bowl.
• Drain sauerkraut in colander, under cold water, squeezing out excess.
• Add sauerkraut, cooked bacon and onion to dumplings.
• Mix gently.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• (An alternate version is with the dumplings mixed with drained cottage cheese and melted butter. Very yummy too!).

TRADITIONAL SLOVAK HALUSKI

Steps:

• For potato dumplings (Haluski):
• In a medium bowl, mix flour, eggs, potato puree, baking powder, and salt together throughly - mixing it into a sticky dough. Set aside.
• Take a large pot, fill it a little over half full with water and add a dash of salt to the water. Boil water on high heat.
• On medium heat in a skillet, fry up the bacon till crisp and then remove bacon from the pan and allow it to drain on paper towels. Cool bacon and then crumble it. Set aside.
• In the meantime, on a small cutting board ladle sized amount of Haluski dough(at a time) and with a knife, cut about 1 teaspoon sized pieces while holding the board over the boiling water and drop the dough into the water. You might want to do this in batches.
• Let each small batch boil till dumplings are throughly cooked and floating to the top of the boiling water. (They sink when first dropped in). Repeat with another batch of dough until you've used it all.
• Strain dumplings out of the water and add them to a large serving bowl. Sprinkle bacon crumbles, handful of brick cheese (or feta)at a time for each layer. Add next layer of dumplings and repeat the layering process as you finish cooking additional batches of dumplings.(approximately four times of layering).
• When complete, take a large spoon and throughly mix Haluski with all of the other layers to incorporate all the ingredients thoroughly.
• Serve as is or add Kielbasa on the side or slice up Kielbasa and mix it in with Haluski!
• Optional toppings: Sauerkraut.
• Serve with a warm crusty bread!