Ving ThorDec 8

Boar Stew with Spätzle and Rotkohl

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Show threadvrekDec 8

I made spaetzle for the first time at Thanksgiving. It was spaetzle and green beans with bacon in a garlic butter sauce.

It was delicious but almost killed me making it. I didn’t have a colander(I think it got thrown out last time I moved) so tried to use a strainer, the holes were too small and wouldn’t work. I ended up using a Manual lemon juicer. My girlfriend misread the recipe and made 20 servings of the batter.

By the time I dinner was ready I was barely able to lift my fork from trying to make all the spaetzle.

Show threadVing ThorDec 8

I have something similar to this thing.

With that I make spätzle quite often because it is fast enough to do it on a weeknight. I’ve seen people do it with a colander, but that seems a bit fiddly… And I don’t even want to imagine what you went through with the strainer.

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Show threadvrekDec 8
Yeah… That would of made things so much easier. I used basically something like this a.co/d/dBsDis5
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Show threadVing ThorDec 8
I imagine that must have taken ages to do.
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Took about 2 hours just to make the spaetzle… I will say I took 3 10 minute breaks because of how sore my arm got. Bowl of batter, scoop 1-2 spoon fulls, then squeeze till no more came out. Had to be careful though, because by time about 3 squeezes worth were in the oil the first squeezer worth was already cooked so we then had to alternate squeezing and picking them out with a slotted spatula.

The recipe I found on the internet was for 10 servings but there was only 3 of us so we I told my girlfriend to cut it in half. Somehow there was a miscommunication and instead of halving it, she doubled it.

We both loved the final result but agreed to never make it again due to the effort it took.

Dec 8 at 11:22amWeb
Show threadVing ThorDec 8
Well if you have too much, spätzle freeze really well. Just throw them into boiling water for a few seconds to heat them up again.