🍲 Spaetzle

Name: Spaetzle
Ingredients: 500 g flour; 5 eggs; 150–200 ml water; Salt

Pasta & Noodles · 4 ingredients · 6 steps

Spaetzle (German: Spätzle) means literally translated "little sparrow" and is a Swabian specialty from Germany. It is made from flour, eggs, water, and salt. There are different techniques to make spaetzle, such as using a spaetzle-maker or spaetzle-press. The original technique is to use a kitchen board and a grater.

This recipe states no serving size, so the quantities are left exactly as written.

Ingredients

500 g flour
5 eggs
150–200 ml water
Salt

Method

Combine all ingredients using hands or an electrical mixer.
Add enough water to make a dough that is slightly sticky, but still elastic and stiff.
Beat long enough for bubbles to rise.
Boil a large pot with salted water.
If using only a board, sweep a spoon of dough over the kitchen board with the grater. Cut/grate small pieces of the dough with the grater into the hot water. If using a spaetzle-maker, put a spoon of dough into the maker and press through the holes into the water. The spaetzle are done when they rise and swim on the water surface.
Remove spaetzle from the water with a slotted spoon and put into a lightly oiled bowl.

Where this came from. Adapted from Spaetzle in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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