Allgäu cheese spaetzle

Ingredients for 6 servings:

• 1 kg flour
• 4 eggs
• 125 ml milk
• 1 liter of cold water
• 500 g Emmental, Allgäu
• 2 packs of cheese (half Limburger and half Romadur)
• 5 m.-sized onion(s)
• salt and pepper
• Parsley
• butter

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour; Cooking/baking time approx. 30 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 30 minutes

everything handmade!

Combine flour, eggs, salt, and 1/4 liter of cold water in a large bowl. (If you prefer milk, add that too.) Don’t stir the dough; it needs to be beaten. I hold the bowl on my lap and beat it with a wooden spoon from the edge of the bowl toward my body. Add cold water until the dough starts to bubble. There should be hardly any lumps of flour left. Then let the dough rest, covered with a kitchen towel. In the meantime, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Grate the Emmental cheese and slice the Limburger or Romandur cheese. Peel the onions and dice them. Preheat the oven to about 100°C. Add a large pot (bowl, dish, or platter) with a little butter. As soon as the water boils, I pour a ladleful of spaetzle dough through a spaetzle grater into the water. You can also scrape the dough from a wooden board into the water using a spaetzle grater. As soon as the spaetzle float to the top, scoop them out with a slotted spoon and let them drain. In the preheated pot, alternate layers of spaetzle, Emmental, and Limburger or Romandur. I always tear up the sliced ​​cheese so that there aren’t too thick pieces in one spot and the cheese is better distributed. Alternate layers until all the pasta dough is used up or the pot is full. I always finish with a little Emmental. Put the spaetzle in the oven and let it sit for about 20 minutes so the cheese can melt nicely. In the meantime, heat some butter and roast the diced onions on gas mark 2. Don’t stir the onions constantly; let them stand for a while so they become nice and crispy. Remove the spaetzle from the oven. Garnish with onions, salt, pepper, and parsley. A delicious lettuce or tomato salad goes very well with this.