Step by step

Bring plenty of salted water to the boil, make the spätzle with the appropriate utensil, cook and drain

Tips
You can indulge yourself by mixing into the basic recipe various vegetables or spices
Trivia
The dough for spätzle is "squeezed" into the water by an instrument that resembles a potato masher: in this way you get a thread-like, slightly elongated dumpling.