Spaetzli

Spaetzli are dumplings made from wheat flour. They are commonly served with game stews in Alsace and Switzerland. A similar recipe is used in Hungary to produce almost identical dumplings called galuska which are the usual accompaniment to gulyas and paprika chicken.

The word spaetzli apparently translates as ‘little sparrows’ for reasons that escape me. They are made from a thick pancake batter which is pushed through a colander into boiling salted water, and the resulting strands