Krupice is great the ultimate comfort food. Are you depressed? Did you just break up with your boyfriend? Did your favorite show on TV just get canceled? Make some Krupice!
Krupice brings a lot of childhood memories to me. They used to serve it to us in the kindergarten/pre-school cafeterias (I think they finally stopped serving it to us at the university). What was also cool about this product that the box you would buy it in had a little “puzzle” on it. It had a picture of an unswaddled baby on it and if you cut it out with scissors and fold it according to the directions you had a swaddled baby! To a child it was a pure magic. This Americanized recipe was created by my good old blogging buddy Sue. She came out with a brilliant idea to substitute – here the non existing – Czech krupice with the Indian semolina.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of milk
- 1/2 cup of sugar
- 1/3 cup of semolina
- butter
- unsweetened cocoa powder
- confectionery sugar
(Makes 2 servings)
Method:
2. Put the milk and the sugar in a pan on medium-low heat and start stirring. Once the milk/sugar becomes a little warm then add the semolina and stir until it dissolves. Don’t stir too fast.. try to keep a pace. Always stir.. never ever stop doing that, if you do..the milk will stick to the bottom
1. After 3 or 4 minutes.. you’ll notice the krupice starting to thicken up. It’s done once it begins to boil a little and you begin feeling the mix stick to the bottom of the pan no matter how much you stir.
3. Pour it directly on your plates; use a stick of butter to just stir it around the krupice (You’ll only use about a tablespoon of butter.. but just add as much as you want)
4. Then get a strainer and put the cocoa powder in and sift it over the plates. Do the same with the confectionary sugar.
Then you’re done!
Dobrou Chut!!
PS: I (Tanja) personally like to drip a little bit of melted butter on top of the whole finished “masterpiece”.
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Oh yea! My MIL fixes it with the melted butter on top, and Hubby likes it either way. As long as he gets it, he’s happy. His friends, I think, are embarrassed to ask me to cook it for them.. maybe thinking that they’re like my little kids. But I wouldn’t mind. 🙂
I can’t believe they served this to you in school! That’s fantastic!
NO, it’s true, every Friday there would be “Sweet meal” day. The cafeteria would serve us stuff like Sweet dumpling, Krupice….I guess just to make sure that we are nice and fat in case the evil capitalists attack…
What is Indian Semolina? Is that basically a pasta of some kind? Where would be the best place to get it?
I would love to try this recipe out, but am confused on this one point.
Hi Damzish,
I looked it up and I guess there are 2 types of semolina: 1/ pasta-like semolina which is used to make couscous and pasta and 2/ Indian-type of semolina used for breakfast cereal. So you want to find/ask for INDIAN semolina in the store.
Any kind of store should have it but the best places are health food stores.
I find my semolina at the actual Indian store. It’s where all their other grains are. Or you can get it from a place like Whole Foods in their International section. Here’s the confusing part… do not get the semolina where you see flour. That grain is too powdery and will never make krupice.
The Indian one is the closest. Good luck!
You can buy detska krupice in the czech store in NY, they ship all over the states. http://www.slovczechvar.com
Dobrou chut!
Sorry to be a pest!
Are you talking about Native American Indian stores or Indian as in the country of India?
That is s very good question Damzish! I am pretty sure it is the semolina from the country of INDIA (correct me anyone, if I am wrong) but if you ask in the store for Indian semolina they will give you what you need; you don’t need to know the “details”. I bet if you ask the store workers the same question they won’t even know the answer 🙂
Wee! Conquering America with kitchen. 🙂 Nice to see another great recipe of us here. This was my favourite supper here and then. Mhm. Have to make it for my girlf-friend. 🙂
That’s right!! As my under-title says: “Small Bohemian Steps to World domination”….slowly, but surely it is happening…starting with the Krupice…;)
I don’t like to put sugger inside, I’d rather grate dark chocolate on top and mix with powder sugar. Also translates as farina.
I don’t like to put sugar inside, I’d rather grate dark chocolate on top and mix with powder sugar. Also translates as farina.
hmmm…that sounds really good…
To zni vyborne!
I also make this for my kids quite often.
Since I live in Chicago suburbs, I can usually find Krupice in certain stores around here. But you can also buy regular (or already chocolate flavored) Cream of Wheat – they carry those in pretty much any grocery store around here in the breakfast/cereal isle. I don’t really follow the recipe on the box, just make it the old Czech way – I guesstimate. Melt some butter in milk, add sugar and the cream of wheat. Stir until it starts boiling. Then pour into plates and use topping of choice. If I feel lazy, I just mix in Hershey’s chocolate syrup, since I always used to mix in my “granko” anyway….
Krupica sa povie farina a normalne ju dostat v nasom obchode…