Liechtenstein

🇦🇹Austria

Apple Strudel

Apfelstrudel

Thin pastry rolled with spiced apple filling, raisins, and breadcrumbs, traditionally stretched by hand until paper-thin, a legendary Austrian icon.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Carnival Fritters

Fasnachtschüechli

A paper-thin round of dough stretched over a knee or a cloth, deep-fried until it blisters, and dusted with icing sugar.

🇨🇭St. Gallen, Switzerland

Corn Bread

Türggenbrot

A Rhine Valley bread made from corn and wheat flour, with a compact crumb and toasted grain flavour.

🇨🇭Graubünden, Switzerland

Grisons Barley Soup

Bündner Gerstensuppe

Pearl barley simmered with root vegetables, dried beef and bacon until thick, finished with cream.

🇱🇮Liechtenstein

Hafalääb

Hafalaab

Hand-sized Liechtenstein corn-semolina and flour dumpling patties made with milk and egg, poached and then fried in butter for sweet or savoury serving.

🇦🇹Austria

Kaiserschmarrn

Kaiserschmarrn is a thick airy pancake torn into caramelised pieces, served with plum or fruit compote in Austria and neighbouring traditions.

🇱🇮Liechtenstein

Kratzate

A torn, thick pancake in the wider Alpine tradition, known in Liechtenstein as Kratzate and served sweet or savoury.

🇱🇮Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein Cheese Spaetzle

Käsknöpfle

Small egg-flour spaetzle layered with Alpine cheese and fried onions, commonly accompanied by applesauce in Liechtenstein.

🇱🇮Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein Elderberry Jam

Holdrsaft

Ripe elderberries cooked down with sugar into a dark Liechtenstein preserve, tart and richly coloured.

🇦🇹Austria

Plum Dumplings

Zwetschgenknödel

Whole plums wrapped in tender Austrian dough, boiled and rolled in buttered breadcrumbs; the same dumpling tradition is known in Hungary, Serbia, and Liechtenstein.

🇨🇭Valais, Switzerland

Raclette

Raclette de Savoie

A half-wheel of cheese heated at the cut face and scraped onto a plate as it bubbles, eaten with potatoes, pickled onions and gherkins.

🇨🇭St. Gallen, Switzerland

Rheintaler Ribel

Ribel

Cornmeal cooked with milk or water and butter-roasted into loose golden crumbs, eaten with compote, coffee, or cheese.

🇱🇮St. Gallen, Liechtenstein

Rheintaler Ribelmais AOP

Rheintaler Ribelmais

Rheintaler Ribelmais AOP is protected Rhine Valley cornmeal from a cross-border Swiss-Liechtenstein production area, used for Ribel and other dishes.

🇩🇪Vaduz, Germany

Riesling

A crisp, aromatic white wine made from the Riesling grape, ranging from dry and mineral to lightly sweet. Liechtenstein growers produce local Riesling and Riesling-Silvaner bottlings in the Rhine Valley.

🇨🇭Bern, Switzerland

Rösti

Coarsely grated potato pressed into a pan and fried in butter or lard until both faces form a deep golden crust.

🇱🇮St. Gallen, Liechtenstein

Surchäs / Bloder-Sauerkäse

Surakäs

Surchäs / Bloder-Sauerkäse is a protected sour-milk cheese from the Swiss and Liechtenstein Rhine Valley, known locally as Surchäs, Bloderchäs, or Surakäs.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Wiener Schnitzel

Veal Schnitzel

Austria's national dish: thin, breaded, pan-fried veal cutlet with golden crispy crust, served with lemon, lingonberry jam, and potato salad.