Your New Favorite Party Snack: Käsespätzle
If you go skiing every winter, you’re probably familiar with this deliciously cheesy dish: Käsespätzle! You’ll find it in pretty much every (mountain) restaurant in Austria, but it’s just as easy to make yourself.
Spätzle
Maybe you already knew spätzle: small pieces of dough, basically a type of pasta. Combine it with cheese and you have the ultimate comfort food. Basically Austrian mac and cheese. For the dough, all you need is flour, eggs and water. You create the shape by pressing the dough through a colander with a wooden spoon. Or, if you’re really serious about it, get yourself a spätzle grater. Press the dough from the grater or colander into a pan of boiling water. When the spätzle floats to the surface, it’s ready, and you can remove it from the pan with a slotted spoon.
Mountain cheese
Next, you can start building your Käsespätzle: place a layer of spätzle on a plate or in a dish and sprinkle a layer of mountain cheese (such as Emmentaler or Gruyère) over it. Keep repeating this until you’ve used up all the spätzle—easy, right? Want some extra crunch in your dish? Add crispy bacon or fried onions. Got a taste for it? Try this recipe and serve it as the ultimate cheesy snack at your next party, or spoon it up while watching a series on the sofa.
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