Exploring North Dakota Cuisine

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Fleischkuechle

Famous in North Dakota is this food called Fleischkuechle. It is served with mashed potatoes and gravy has beef and sauerkraut in it and some kind of cheese. Its pretty good

Fleischkuekle ("little meat pie") is a deep-fried turnover similar to the Crimean Tatar cheburek. The dish is a traditional Black Sea Germans / Crimea Germans recipe, and through immigration became an addition to the cuisine of North Dakota. This dish, which has typically ground or minced meat and onions as a filling, is popular among the many German-Russian immigrant families of North Dakota.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleischkuekle

Knoephla soup

Knoephla, also spelled knephla /ˈnɛflə/, is a type of dumpling, commonly used in soups in the United States. The word is related to the modern German dialect word Knöpfle, meaning little knob/button. Traditional knoephla soup is a thick chicken and potato soup, almost to the point of being a stew. It is particularly common in the U.S. states of Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Dakota, where there was significant settlement of German emigrants from the Russian Empire. There are different iterations known throughout, though the North Dakotan iteration typically contains just potatoes and dumplings.

Kuchen soft crust pie

Kuchen is the German word for cake, is used in other languages as the name for several different types of savory or sweet desserts, pastries, and gateaux. Most Kuchen have eggs, flour and sugar as common ingredients while also, but not always, including some fat.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuchen

Lefse flatbread

Lefse is a traditional soft Norwegian flatbread. It is made with riced potatoes, can include all purpose (wheat) flour, and includes butter, and milk, cream, or lard. It is cooked on a large, flat griddle.



https://chefani.com/norwegian-potato-lefse/