Homemade Beef Spaetzle Soup

Submitted by Michael Matta

"This is a family favorite of ours, which will warm you up on a cold fall or winter day. It makes a big 10 quart pot, but it?s undoubtedly the best soup you will ever eat."

 

• Ready In: 3hrs 45mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 20

ingredients

• Soup ingredients

• 2 lbs round steaks, cut up 1 inch cubes
• 8 potatoes, cut in 1-2 inch squares
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 3 cups celery, chopped
• 7 teaspoons salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
• 1 soup bone (optional)
• 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can beef broth
• water

• Spatzel ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 5 eggs, beaten
• 1 pinch nutmeg
• 1 cup milk

directions

1. Place the first seven soup ingredients in a 10qt.
2. Pot.
3. Fill the pot with water leaving about four inches from the top.
4. Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer for 3 hours.
5. When through, mix the spaetzle ingredients until you get a gluey consistency (add more milk if necessary).
6. Boil a pot of water and with a hand spaghetti-press, press the spaetzle into the water.
7. When the spaetzle hits the water it will form soft noodles.
8. Then transfer and stir the spaetzle (noodles) into the pot of soup.

Reviews

[Michael Matta]

The wife: The spaetzle is done when it rises to the top of the boiling water. This recipe has been in my famly 4 generations.