Quarkbällchen – Fried curd balls

An image of my finished curd balls

“Quark” is a type of fresh dairy product. It’s usually translated as curd cheese or cottage cheese.

Ingredients

  • 420ml quark (plain yoghurt can be used as a replacement)
  • 2 eggs
  • 6 or 7 tbsp of sugar
  • 2 packets of vanilla sugar
  • 400g flour (500g if using yoghurt)
  • 2 packets of baking powder
  • 1L sunflower oil for frying
  • (Optional) icing sugar
  • (Optional) Alcohol by eye so that they do not soak up so much oil

Directions

  1. Mix ingredients (quark, eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder) in one bowl.
  2. Pour the sunflower oil into a cooking pot and heat up the hotplate
  3. Form balls from the dough and put them into the cooking pot
  4. Once they are brown-ish, put them onto a plate
  5. (Optional) add icing sugar
  6. Enjoy!