Kopytka, kapytki are a kind of potato

Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family . The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species...

 dumpling

Dumpling

Dumplings are cooked balls of dough. They are based on flour, potatoes or bread, and may include meat, fish, vegetables, or sweets. They may be cooked by boiling, steaming, simmering, frying, or baking. They may have a filling, or there may be other ingredients mixed into the dough. Dumplings may...

. They are very similar to gnocchi

Gnocchi

Gnocchi are various thick, soft dumplings. They may be made from semolina, ordinary wheat flour, flour and egg, flour, egg, and cheese, potato, bread crumbs, or similar ingredients. The smaller forms are called gnocchetti....

 although they are typically served baked with cheese, fried bacon or onion. The dish is a part of Belarusian, Lithuanian

Lithuanian cuisine

Lithuanian cuisine features the products suited to the cool and moist northern climate of Lithuania: barley, potatoes, rye, beets, greens, berries, and mushrooms are locally grown, and dairy products are one of its specialities...

 and Polish

Polish cuisine

Polish cuisine is a style of cooking and food preparation originating from Poland. It has evolved over the centuries due to historical circumstances. Polish national cuisine shares some similarities with other Central European and Eastern European traditions as well as French and Italian...

 cuisines.

Etymology

The word kopytka [kopyto, "hoof", kopytko "little hoof", neuter singular nouns] is Polish

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

 for "little hooves," such as those of a small hoofed animal (for example, a goat

Goat

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). Kapytki is the Belarusian

Belarusian language

The Belarusian language , sometimes referred to as White Russian or White Ruthenian, is the language of the Belarusian people...

 word for the same concept. Both refer to the structure of these dumplings, which are formed in the shape of hooves.

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• Salt
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• Seasoning
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The Polish dish is usually just cooked in salted water; while in Belarusian and Lithuanian cuisines karytki is baked first, then stewed or boiled in water.