Not only schnitzel 9 Austrian dishes that everyone should try

Main dishes

1. Tafelspitz

A traditional dish of the Viennese cuisine and Austrian monarchs. Especially loved his emperor of Austria-Hungary Franz Joseph, who ruled 68 years.

Tafelspitz - a beef with vegetables. It is cooked in the broth, then tantalized on fire for 3-4 hours. It turns tender meat slices which melt in your mouth. The dish is served with broth, apple sauce and horseradish, and as a garnish offer vegetables: carrots, potatoes, celery.

Tafelspitz - a real find for gourmets. Which can be served in the Viennese restaurant (menu - Tafelspitz), including in the oldest restaurant in Vienna Griechenbeisl. A place of worship and atmospheric, on the walls - the autographs of Mozart, Beethoven, Strauss, Schubert, Brahms, Chaliapin, Wagner and many others.

2. vanillerostbraten

This is a traditional Austrian dishes, which can not boast of admirers among the kings and monarchs, but nevertheless has a wonderful taste. The dish was popular among the poor and jokingly called vanilla because it contained garlic - "vanilla for the poor." A real vanilla in the recipe is not present, the spice was too expensive for farmers because it was delivered from Central America and cost too much.

Vanillerostbraten - a juicy piece of beef with a delicious crust. It quickly fried in butter with spices, then baked, and then re-fried in a spicy cream sauce. The meat is served with fried potatoes.

Try the dish can be in Vienna and other Austrian cities, such as Salzburg. Here is the oldest restaurant in Europe Stiftskulinarium St. Peter, who 1200 years.

3. Kezeshpetsle

Kezeshpetsle - Austrian variation American mac and cheese, but instead of pasta is homemade noodles. The dish is quite cheap and easy to prepare, before they ate the Austrian peasants.

Kezeshpetsle dough is prepared as in the dumplings, rubbed through a sieve, boil, and then baked with cheese. It turns casserole with cheese flavor and melting cheese strings. A paradise for those who love cheese and have it ready kilograms.

Meals are served straight from the oven, with fried onions. The Viennese café you will not find such, kezeshpetsle prepared in the alpine huts in the mountains. Therefore, you can try it first and foremost in the SalzburgerLand during hiking in the Alps. And at the same time order the cheese and meat fondues - delicious appetizers before the main course.

4. Trout with wild mushrooms

Trout with wild mushrooms - regional dishes widespread in Carinthia. This is the sunniest and southernmost province in Austria, which attracts travelers clear lakes with drinking water. It is home to pike, carp, perch and other fish species. But a special treat - Ozyornaya trout. This fish is very appreciated in local cuisine, and is considered a delicacy. In 2013, she was even awarded the title of "Fish of the year in Austria."

Trout fillet, first fried and then baked in an aromatic oil with herbs and anchovy paste. Garnish are wild mushrooms that are fried in butter. It turns out incredibly tasty and tender dish that is rarely seen in other parts of Austria.

Pastries and sweets

5. Nokerln Salzburg (Salzburg dumplings)

Dessert comes from Salzburg, "sweet as love and as tender as a kiss." That's how it spoke of Austrian composer Fred Raymond in his operetta "The season in Salzburg."

This baked sweet souffle with vanilla. No gnocchi-making machines, and let the name does not scare you. Dessert is served in the form of three hills, sprinkled with powdered sugar. They represent the three vertices of Salzburg: Kapuzinerberg, Mönchsberg and Rheinberg. Sometimes nokerln served with berry or chocolate sauce, whipped cream and ice cream.

Desserts are prepared in almost all Salzburg cafes, including in a candy Ratzka, which is considered one of the best in the country.

6. Kayzershmarren

Viennese dessert and a favorite treat of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I. Preparing it this way: the dough is poured into the pan, fry on one side, and then divided into small pieces and fry until crisp. Dessert is served with vanilla sauce or plum jam, sprinkled with powdered sugar. Sometimes add raisins, nuts, and almonds petals.

According to legend, Kaiserschmarren turned by chance, when the court chef preparing palachinke (Austrian pancakes with apricot jam and whipped cream). If the dough is torn, he butchered pancakes apart, roasted until crisp and gave the emperor with a sweet sauce.

7. punschkrapfen

This miniature cake cube-shaped with sides of 4 cm. Dessert attracts attention and stands out on the counter of the Viennese coffee houses: an elegant, minimalistic and covered in pink icing.

Inside - a layer of sponge cake and apricot jam, or chocolate, mixed with rum or punch. In the original recipe, the alcohol is present, but many offer the option of confectionery and without it.

delicatessen

8. speck

Austria - a mountainous country, and winter in the alpine village is quite cold: the temperature can drop to -15 degrees. Therefore, historically so that the inhabitants of the Alpine regions have tried to eat high-calorie nourishing food. The central place in the diet took the meat and cook it can be a variety of ways: salt, jerk, smoke and dry. And there were numerous varieties of sausages, bacon and ham varieties. And in each region its own special recipe of Austria (and not one).

For example, Tyrol fat distinguishes small amount of salt and cold smoke, but it matures weeks outdoors. Here produce Henkel - a special delicacy of beef, lamb, venison and wild boar.

IN Carinthia preparing gayltalsky fat, which upon treatment with spices ripens without smoking outdoors in the Alps. Try the delicacy can be in the same place, in the small resort town at the lake or in the butcher shop in Klagenfurt (the capital of Carinthia).

9. Austrian cheese

In Austria, an incredible amount of cheese, and each land boasts its proprietary varieties. They are prepared according to old traditions with all the subtleties. Alpine meadows, manicured Burenka, clear sky - without this Austrian cheese would not be so delicious.

For example, the land Vorarlberg is famous for the legendary cheese kezknopfle, which is made from mountain cheese and Emmentaler cheese. In Styria prepare blue cheese and chocolate chips in Carinthia - gayltalsky meadow cheese.

In the Salzburger Land and all have "gourmet cheese route for the fans", where you can see how to prepare a delicacy, and taste more than a dozen branded cheeses.

Sample local delicacies and buy a home sanctions and products can be in Vienna, and in Vienna airport. All the food that you purchase after passing customs control, you can take it on board.

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