Today on The Stay At Home Chef
I'm showing you how to make
Granny's German Spaetzle
American's call this (spah- tzel) or (Spay-tzel)
but in German they call it (shpet-zlee)
And probably butchered that pronunciation
too
My Granny is German and this is her recipe
that she got from her grandmother
who got it from her grandmother
all the way back for who knows how long
for this traditional German recipe.
To start you'll need 2 cups of all-purpose
flour
Get that into a large mixing bowl
along with 1/2 teaspoon of ground nutmeg
and 1 tablespoon of freshly chopped parsley
Then whisk it together
You just need a quick mix on this
If you've never made spaetzle before
it's a little miniature tiny dumpling
and it is so good
Today I'm going to show you how to make it
without a spaetzle maker
instead we're going to use a little colander.
Now, next you'll need 6 large eggs
You want to just beat those lightly in a bowl
so that you break up all of the little yolks
and get it lightly beaten
Then we're going to take the eggs
and alternate adding them into the flour mixture
with milk
So we'll pour a little egg mixture in
and whisk that
and then we'll take a little bit of milk
and pour that in
We're going to use 1/2 cup of milk total
So just keep alternating adding in egg and
milk
and you should end up with a nice smooth dough
You can check out the texture here on this
This is exactly what you're looking for
Now Granny says to let this rest for 30 minutes
In the meantime, you'll want to bring a pot
of water
to a boil and you'll want to make sure it's
salted water
because that adds a lot of flavor to our spaetzle.
I'm using this nice shiny colander because
it has
holes in the bottom and the side
The side holes are just slightly bigger
so I think I'm going to use those because
it's also
a little bit easier to show you if I tilt
this on its side.
You can use anything with little holes like
this
whether it's a colander or a flat grater.
Both of them will work
or you can use a spaetzle maker.
I'm going to scoop the dough and gently press
it
through the little holes
I just use the back of the ladle to spread
it out
against the holes and it slips right through
You can see it cooks really quickly
Once it floats to the top
you can remove it because it's done.
Then I just spoon the spaetzle into some melted
butter
in a saucepan and give it a quick fry
Now you can get as creative as you want with
your spaetzle
but I like to serve mine up just fried in
butter
just like Granny used to make.
Top it off with a little bit of freshly chopped
parsley
and you are ready to eat.
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