Our capuns recipe to cook at home
Capuns are a Grisons culinary classic and one of the region's best-known recipes.Here's how to make the flavor crescendo of chard, Bündnerfleisch and herbs.
Ingredients
- 300 g flour
- 3 eggs
- 50 ml milk water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 150 g bacon, lean
- 100 g white bread
- 1 onion
- 2 tbsp fat or clarified butter
- parsley, chives, rosemary, basil
- Swiss chard leaves (The number of Swiss chard leaves required depends on the quality and size of the leaves)
- 50 g Parmesan, grated
50 g butter
Preparation
- Prepare the Spätzli dough from flour, eggs, milk water (50% milk, 50% water) and salt.
- Cut the bacon, bread and onions into small cubes and sauté in fat or frying butter.
- Finely chop the herbs and mix some of them with the spaetzli dough.
- Briefly blanch the chard leaves.
- Fill the chard leaves with a spoonful of batter per leaf, roll up and secure with a skewer.
- Leave the wraps to stand in boiling salted water for 20 minutes.
- Place the capuns in layers in a bowl with the cheese and chopped herbs and then toss in hot butter.