Homemade Pumpkin Paprika Spätzle

Ingredients:

for the spätzle:
ii eggs
1 loving cup pumpkin puree*
1/2 tablespoon butter
three cups flour
1/2 teaspoon hot paprika
pinch salt


to serve:
1 medium onion, cutting into one-half moons
8 oz push mushroom, sliced
butter


Directions:

Bring a large pot of salted H2O to boil.

In the bowl of a stand upward mixer or inward a medium bowl using a mitt mixer, mix together the eggs, pumpkin together with butter until smooth. Add the flour together with spices together with mix until a thick, if slightly mucilaginous batter forms.

Meanwhile, saute the onions together with mushroom inward butter until softened.

Place a handful of dough inward a spätzle maker or a ricer amongst inchangable plates, using the medium plate. I used a ricer virtually identical to this one that I purchased from Aldi.

Squeeze the dough over the boiling H2O together with cutting off the noodles past times running a knife along the bottom of maker when the spätzle is betwixt 1/4-1/2 inch long. Cook until they float to the top. Use a slotted spoon or spider to scoop them out together with add together the mushrooms together with onions. Repeat for remaining dough. Saute the spätzle until they are lightly browned. Salt together with pepper together with serve.

*I made this past times roasting 1 pocket-size saccharide pumpkin for close forty minutes at 350.

My thoughts:

I'm on a mission to operate upward all of the pumpkins from the 4 volunteer pumpkins I ended upward growing this year. I've been trying to mean value of savory pumpkin recipes all week. One proposition that came upward was gnocchi which I bask exactly for roughly reason, I tin never shape it right. Then I thought, why non make spätzle?

I had never made spätzle earlier exactly I had bought this ricer a long fourth dimension agone amongst the sentiment that I could in all probability operate it every bit a spätzle maker. It's been languishing inward the cabinet always since. As it turns out, it does brand a good spätzle maker! It took a lot of arm forcefulness exactly it was worth it when I was rewarded amongst super tasty fresh pumpkin spätzle! I amazed myself. It was actually quick too--I served amongst roughly pickled ruby-red cabbage amongst apples (from Aldi) together with some bauernwurst I bought at a local High German sausage maker-- together with the whole dinner exclusively took close twenty minutes. The paprika added a dainty hint of spice together with finishing them inward the pan amongst the mushrooms together with onions made for a neat vegetarian side dish.