German Dinner Pt. 2...Spaetzle

(See my segment on this, Rotkohl and Schnitzel on WLUK Fox 11's "Good Day Wisconsin" by following this link:  http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/good_day_wi/Cooking-With-You-Mike-Kohn)

Mmmm....Spaetzle.  That yummy German noodle-dumpling thing that tastes great just by itself, with a little salt, pepper and butter, or with the gravy of whatever main dish you might be making.

In this case, we'll be making Schnitzel, and I'll make with a lemon-caper white sauce that will go great with this Spaetzle recipe!

Spaetzle is easy to make and doesn't take long.  You don't have to have any special tools, but a Spaetzle Maker, which looks sort of like a cheese grater with a sliding hopper on top of it, makes the job a lot easier.

Ingredients for about 4 servings:

1 cups flour

3 eggs

1/4 cup water

1/2 tsp salt

Mix all together to form a thick batter, it should be a little thicker than pancake batter.  Bring a pot of salted water to boil...you should have enough salt in the water to taste that it's there, but it shouldn't be overtly salty.  Place the Spaetzle Maker over the pot and load the hopper of the Spaetzle Maker with the batter, gently slide back and forth.  Or, just drizzle batter into the boiling water thru a slotted spoon or just from the end of a spoon.  Spaetzle floats to the top when done, and you can remove it to a dish as it's done while you continue to add more batter.  If you're using the Spaetzle Maker, you can probably just leave it all in there until it's done, as the process goes so much more quickly.

Put in a serving bowl with some butter, salt and pepper.  Serve it up as is, or with a ladle of gravy over the top.  Mmmmmm!