Cooking Späzli

I've got to know the food "späzli" in here Switzerland. It's something taste like between pasta and gnocchi which often served with meats. Ursula suggested me to cook Späzli for dinner together! I was very curious how to cook it.



Flour, egg, milk and water,, basically you just mix them up all.



Ursula hardly use measure to cook. She often use a word "etwas" which means "some". I'm a kind of person who measure exaclty which written on a cook book, so when she says "some -- ", I'm always questioning in my heart "how much actually???". But Ursula never has problem without using measure. She see the texture and decide. You can check the right "thickness" of Späzli as below.



Rest the bowl of the Späzli on the table for a while. In the meantime, we prepared a sauce.



Hmmmmm, porcini sauce!! Porcini, bouyon, red wine, cream and some spices.



Now comes the most fun part of cooking Späzli. Put one scoop of the Späzli from bowl on the board.



and slice them into bolied water, one by one!!



There is a special "späzli knife" if you need but we used normal knife.

After a while, boiled späzli start floating in the water.



and scoop them up! with special Späzli spoon:)



I enjoyed it a lot!



so here, how we served.



Hmmmm, Späzli with Porcini sauce!



nornally, it will be served with meat like this. Again, grilled meat from fire place:)



we also prepared special salad. Celery salad and Carrot salad. We grated 10 carrots and one whole celery. That was tough work.



It was again huge dinner. 5 star restaurant is here at home!