Spätzli

Ingredients Wheat flour, but also buckwheat flour, water, eggs, and sometimes milk.

How Made It is made with a specific utensil, which looks like a flat grater on which a little carriage with holes is mounted. A soft dough of flour, water, eggs, and sometimes milk is put into the carriage and passes through the holes into boiling broth or salted water.

Also Known As In the Valtellina, menedici; a smaller variety in the Val Camonica is called spezzali.

How Served As pastasciutta or in broth, according to local customs.