Mom’s Schupfnudeln – original Swabian potato Noodles

Fried Schupfnudel served on a plate

 During my holidays at home I was able to assist in cooking up some original Swabian stuff together with the master of the kitchen – my mom. Besides Spätzle (maybe the best know Swabian Noodles worldwide) I also had the opportunity to watch, assist and help her to make Schupfnudels. Schupfen is a Swabian word for rolling so Schupfnudels can be translated with rolled noodles. In other parts of Germany this very thick potato noodle can be found with varying recipes and varying names and they are of similar consistency then the Italian gnocchi. Be it as it may, let me guide you through the making of this delicious German noodle.


Ingredients:

• 5 full table spoons g flour (about 100 - 150 g)
• 800g - 1 kg of cooked potatoes
• Pinch of nutmeg
• Pinch of salt

Ingredients for the Schupfnudel dough

1 egg (I read some recipes that some take 2 eggs but I am staying with one egg like my mom)
Use a potato press to press the potato so that it can be formed together with the dough to give smooth dough.

Pressing the potatoes on the flour

Then add the spices and the egg to the flour potato mix and mix everything well together to a dough ball. Let the dough rest for 30 minutes – 1 hour in the fridge.
After that take out the dough and put some flour on the table as well as keep some flour ready for your hands. Now take a small portion of dough and roll it in your hand in order to form the schupfnudel.

Rolling the Schupfnudels between the hands

Place it on the table but pay attention that you don’t put too much flour on it or else later during cooking the schupfnudel will not be of good consistency.
Now have a big pot of boiling saltwater ready. Then place a few Nudels in the boiling water. They won’t take long, maybe about 3 – 5 minutes. When they are ready, they will come up and swim to the surface of the water.

Schupfnudels cooking in the boiling water

Now you can fish them out of the water and put them on a plate. After this you can eat they cooked as they are or you can alternatively fry them of in a well buttered pan. 

Fried Schupfnudels on a plate

They go perfectly together with Sauerkraut and maybe some smoked pork ribs or a smoked pork shoulder as in the attached picture.

Sauerkraut and smoked pork a perfect match for the Schupfnudels

How about a sweet dessert after such a great meal? I suggest one of these pralines that I saw in a German bakery. Could you resist this little nougat treat?

chocohedgehog made of chocolate and nougat