One of my dear friends is leaving Tuesday to move make to Germany. It truly makes me sad since I feel like she just moved here. In order to keep from being too sad, a group of us got together last night to enjoy delicacies from the German region of SWABIA (PLUS SOME FLAMMKUCHEN).
Recipe to come soon
We made schnitzel and spätzle and a mushroom sauce to go with them both. Schnitzel is a breaded boneless pork chop. Spätzle is an egg noodle that is often served with a sauce or gravy, but I have had them with caramelized onions and cheese also.
I have previously learned to make the sauce and schnitzel but I have wanted to learn about the spätzlel. In fact, my friend’s mom sent my own spätzle shaker. I will say that it was quite fun to make and resulted in lots of laughs as we worked to get the “dough” or “batter” in the right consistency.
While there were two Germans present to help us with making the batter, I think it was a first time for the whole group to make our own noodle. Since my shaker only holds the portion for two, we made the batter in a bowl and just used the shaker to shape the batter into strings over a pot of boiling water.
After a few tweaks, we nailed the consistency of the batter and quickly cooked all of our noodles.
While I did not manage to take a picture of the finished product, I was lucky that my friend took a picture of her plate with her iphone. Sadly, the schnitzel is missing since she does not eat meat.
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