How to Make Spaetlze Noodles- Easy German Spaetzle Recipe

When I was young, I’d watch my mother make Spaetzle Noodles. She’d fill the Spätzle maker with dough, and down the noodles would fall into the cookpot of boiling water. Spaetzle are as German as, well, potatoes. This noodle side dish is versatile and delicious, no matter how you serve it. However, like most foods, spätzle taste best when they are handmade, and they are most delicious when cooked by your mom using your Oma’s Spaetzle Maker. You can make them yourself with this easy German Spaetzle Recipe.

How to Make Spätlze Noodles- Easy German Spaetzle Recipe

How to Make Spaetzle

My mom uses the Spaetzle Maker, and I recently received a Spätzle press from my cousin (it’s a beauty!), but there are many other ways to make them. Whatever way you choose, be prepared for a steamy kitchen and some cleanup. It’s all worthwhile when you are eating these delicious little noodles.

German Spaetzle Recipe

 

My cousin brought me a new Spätzle Press from Germany, and I LOVE IT! The Spaetzle noodles come out a little longer. The heavy-duty press also makes Spaghetti Eis.

It’s well-made and works like a dream! This is the kind of kitchen tool that will get passed on to the next generation and beyond.

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Easy German Spätzle Recipe

 

German Spaetzle Recipe

How to Make Spaetlze Noodles- Easy Spaetzle Recipe

Spaetzle, a home made German Noodle, are a wonderful side dish to many meat courses... but also make a delicious main course when baked with cheese.
Course German Recipes, Main Course
Cuisine German

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup Flour all purpose
  • 6 Tbl. Milk
  • 2 Eggs
  • ½ tsp Salt
  • ¼ tsp Nutmeg
  • Also… A pot of boiling salted water on the stove.

Instructions
 

  • -Mix the flour, salt and nutmeg in a medium bowl
  • -Whisk the Milk and and Egg together
  • -Slowly, add the Wet ingredients to the dry ingredients to the dry ingredients. Continuously stirring hard with a wooden spoon!
  • -Keep stirring until you have a smooth, elastic dough

Shape the Spätzle in one of these ways… :

  • -Use a Spätzle maker… put the dough in the box, and slide it back and forth over the holes, letting the dough fall into the water.
  • -Use a Spaetzle press and by push the dough through the press into the boiling water(you can also use the press for Spaghetti Eis).
  • -Use the knife on a board method (see the video below)
  • Cook the Spätzle for around 8 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  • Drain and serve
Keyword Spaetlze Noodles

 

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How to Serve Spaetzle

-As a side dish to a roast, covered in gravy –German Goulash

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-baked with cheese – Oma’s German Cheese Spaetzele

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Where to get Spaetzle Makers

You can get any style of Spaetzle Maker you (or your Oma) prefer. My mom liked the one that looks like a cheese grater… but I know a lot of people prefer the press. (And the press can be used for other things like SPAGHETTI EIS!)

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Want to see HOW to make Spaetzle?

This is how my mom does it with a Spaetzle Maker.

Using a Spaetzle Press- (in German, but you can see how it works)

 

Using a Knife and Board (I love this … clearly she has done it a thousand times)

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7 thoughts on “How to Make Spaetlze Noodles- Easy German Spaetzle Recipe

  1. I remember back when I was 16 and visiting my relatives in Germany. My Oma was still alive and she made these. She didn’t use a press or spaetzle maker. She did it the same as in the last video you show and boy was she quick.

    1. Totally amazing… I’d never seen it done like that.. I just had to include the video.

  2. OMG you cook them for 8 minutes? I would not want to eat this anymore!!!!
    They are better when made with water then with milk and then, as soon as they come to the surface of the water, they are done!!!!!!! The best way to make them and the original way, is to scrape them from the board. The difference in thickness, length and time in the water is what makes the special taste of the spätzle. Everybody that had the opportunity to compare, is in agreement!!!

    1. agree, water and my grandmother used one egg to a good cup of flour and no nutmeg. She also used a heavy porcelain plate, not a board.

  3. Thanks For Sharing this amazing recipe. My family loved it. I will be sharing this recipe with my friends. Hope the will like it.

  4. I remember Spaezl’e being made like in the last video. Was never much of a fan, but I ate them. When you’re hungry you will eat them. I was often hungry. Lived in a small village for a couple years. My school friend sister made them like that. They had a butchered hog and made amazing meals. I was so glad to have a friend from school, who invited me for supper at times. I tried seeing her when I flew home, but she no longer lived there. The farmhouse had a new owner. Made me sad that I could not find out where they moved to.

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