Kreplach are delicious soup dumplings filled with meat, cheese, or other fillings. Part of traditional Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine, kreplach are often served on holidays.
Ground beef or cooked brisket is the most typical filling for kreplach, but the dumplings are also commonly made by wrapping small pieces of dough around mashed potatoes. While these tasty little pockets of dough are sometimes fried, most cooks boil kreplach and serve them in hot chicken soup. Kreplach is from the Yiddish kreplekh and a Middle High German root that means "a piece of pastry."