Spätzle and More

Ingredients for the Spätzle

• 400 gram flour (Weizenmehl Typ 405) you can mix in Hartweizengrieß (Durum wheat semolina flour)
• 3 large eggs (53 grams per piece)
• 1 chopped onion
• 20 CL full fat milk or replace 10CL milk with cold beer for a nice flavor variation
• salt, pepper and muskat to taste

For Cheese Spätzle

• 350 grams of cheese for example: Emmenthaler, Gruyere or Greyerzer. Use older cheese to add additonal flavor and mix diffent types for your favorite blend.
• 50 or more grams butter lard (butterschmalz)

Thin Onion Rings

• 4 large onions slices in very thin rings
• 300 ml butter milk
• 1 tspn salt
• grinded black pepper, sweet paprika to taste
• 250 gram mehl (finely filtered) to coat the thin onion rings

Preparation

1Bring one pan with water and salt to the boil. 8 - 10 grams of salt per liter of water. Mix the eggs, flour, milk and spices together untill you have a mass with light bubbles. Get a spätzle sieb. You can find additional information on www.spaetzle.de. Dunk the spätzle sieb in the boiling water for a few seconds to avoid the dough sticking to it. Use the sieb to make the  spätzle and once they start floating they are ready.

2mix the cheeses and some of the butter lard (to taste) in a pan and heat to 80 degrees to ensure this is nicely covered in the cheese mixture.

3For the onion rings. Dunk the rings in the butter milk. Important the butter milk should touch the onion rings. Then dunk then into the flour, salt, paprika mixture. Get a fryingpan with  1 - 2 cm of oil and heat the oil to 175 degrees celcius. With thongs grap the onions rings from the flour spice mixture. shake and fry. This goes quick and take them out once golden brown. Place the onions rings on a try with fat absorbant paper. and set in the oven heated to 100 degrees celcius and serve with your käse spätzle once ready.

4Once the onions are ready add the butter schmalz to the finished spätzle and mix with the cheese mixture. Do not heat too much. And serve with a potion of the onion rings. Delicious