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Spaetzel and Cheese

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Creamy macaroni and cheese with your own homemade spaetzle noodles. This recipe for the noodle is so easy, you'll start making your own pasta all of the time!

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Ingredients

  • NOODLES
  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup of milk
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1 pinch nutmeg
  • 1 small 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

Details

Servings 4
Preparation time 20mins
Adapted from 12tomatoes.com

Preparation

Step 1

Boil about a gallon of water in a large pot on high heat.

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.

Cut a corner off of the bottom of your freezer bag so that there is a very tiny hole the thickness of your noodles. 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.

Repeat step 4 until all of your dough is in the boiling water. Boil noodles for two minutes.

Prepare cheese sauce by heating up 1 cup of whole milk in a saucepan on medium heat. Whisk in 1 1/2 tablespoons of flour when milk begins to steam. Continue whisking for 3 minutes.

Add in cheese, salt, and garlic salt to your saucepan. Stir together and remove from heat.

Strain your boiled spaetzle in a colander.

Transfer spaetzle to a medium pan and saute your in butter on medium heat until the noodles begin to brown.

Chop your onion and sear in a separate pan in olive oil on medium heat until onion becomes crispy.

Add cheese sauce into your pan of spaetzle. Cook on low heat for 1 minute.

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