German

Spaetzle (Swabian Egg-Free Soft Noodles)

Name: Spaetzle (Swabian Egg-Free Soft Noodles)
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: German
Ingredients: 2.5 cups all-purpose flour; 3/4 cup milk; 1/3 cup water; 1 tsp salt; 1 pinch ground nutmeg; 2 tbsp butter; 2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped

Birgit @birgit1978

Spaetzle (Swabian Egg-Free Soft Noodles) is German home cooking, eaten at dinner and lunch. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Medium Vegetarian Pescatarian Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2.5 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup milk
1/3 cup water
1 tsp salt
1 pinch ground nutmeg
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped

How to cook it

Whisk the flour, salt, and nutmeg together in a bowl.
Beat in the milk and water a little at a time until the batter is thick, smooth, and drops slowly off the spoon in a ribbon.
Let the batter rest for 10 minutes while a wide pot of salted water comes to a gentle boil.
Press the batter through a Spaetzle press or scrape it in thin strips off a damp board into the simmering water.
Cook in batches for 2 to 3 minutes, until the noodles float, then lift them out with a slotted spoon.
Toss the drained noodles with the butter and parsley and serve straight away beside a roast, a Schnitzel, or a saucy stew.

Watch how to cook Spaetzle (Swabian Egg-Free Soft Noodles)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Vegane Spätzle & Spätzleteig ohne Ei selber machen Play the video

Serve it with

A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Spaetzle (Swabian Egg-Free Soft Noodles), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Abendbrot-Teller mit Putenschinken (Cold Evening Bread Plate with Turkey Ham)
  
  10 min
The cooked vegetable
- Blumenkohl mit Butterbroeseln (Cauliflower with Browned Butter Crumbs)
  
  25 min
The sharp little thing
- Apfelmus (German Applesauce)
  
  20 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Spaetzle (Swabian Egg-Free Soft Noodles) carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Spaetzle (Swabian Egg-Free Soft Noodles)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Kartoffelsalat Norddeutsche Art (Cold North German Potato Salad)
Gluten	Yes	Bratkartoffeln (German Pan-Fried Potatoes)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 340 kcal
Protein: 9 g
Carbs: 60 g
Fat: 7 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 600 mg
Saturated fat: 5 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Spaetzle (Swabian Egg-Free Soft Noodles) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner and lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.