Sächsische Quarkkeulchen mit Apfelmus - Saxonian quark (curd) fritters with homemade applesauce

This is the recipe of the contribution of the team from Schkeuditz to the international cooking: Although this dish is typically served as a main course, we offered it as a dessert in the international cooking. Anyway we puplish the recipe with the incredients for 4 persons as a main dish:

You will need:

- for the fritters:

500 g potatoes
500 g quark (curd)
150 g flour
150 g sugar
1 egg
lemon zest of 1 lemon
 oil for frying
sugar to serve with

Boil the pealed potatoes until they are soft and mash them. Mix the mashed potatoes with quark, flour, sugar and lemon zest. Add the egg at last so it doesn't clot.
Now form with flour on your hands small dumplings and fry them in a pan or better in a deep fryer if available. When they are golden brown roll them in sugar and serve them warm together with the applesauce.

 - for the applesauce:

500 g apples
100 g sugar
 the juice of 1 lemon
1 cinnamon stick
6 tablespoons of water

Peal the apples and cut them into pieces. Boil them together with all the other incredients for at least 10 minutes.
Take out the cinnamon stick then mix the rest until you have the desired consistency (with or without pieces)

Guten Appetit!

 PS: We have to mention that it wasn't easy to find the quark (curd) in Spain. The only available was something similar called "requeson". It has more ore less the same consistency but it is less sour in the taste. Anyway we can say that the whole group has liked our Quarkkeulchen ;-)