suemunzlinger's Recipe

Spaetzle And Cheese

Category: Main Dish

(serves 6)

Ingredients

Noodles
•2 cups flour
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup of milk
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 pinch nutmeg
• 1 white onion

Sauce
•1 cup whole milk
• 1 1/2 tablespoons flour
• 2 cups shredded Monterey jack cheese
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 garlic salt

Directions
1.Boil about a gallon of water in a large pot on high heat.
2. Combine flour, eggs, salt, milk, butter, and nutmeg in a large freezer bag. Knead together ingredients while they are in the bag until dough forms.
3. Cut a corner off of the bottom of your freezer bag so that there is a very tiny hole the thickness of your noodles.
4. When your water begins to boil, squeeze strands of dough through the hole in your bag so that they are about 1 1/2-inches long.
5. Repeat step 4 until all of your dough is in the boiling water. Boil noodles for two minutes.
6. Prepare cheese sauce by heating up 1 cup of whole milk in a saucepan on medium heat.
7. Whisk in 1 1/2 tablespoons of flour when milk begins to steam. Continue whisking for 3 minutes.
8. Add in cheese, salt, and garlic salt to your saucepan. Stir together and remove from heat.
9. Strain your boiled spaetzle in a colander.
10. Transfer spaetzle to a medium pan and saute your in butter on medium heat until the noodles begin to brown.
11. Chop your onion and sear in a separate pan in olive oil on medium heat until onion becomes crispy.
12. Add cheese sauce into your pan of spaetzle. Cook on low heat for 1 minute.
13. Top with crispy onions.






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