Go Back
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