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Liechtenstein Essentials
A considered first route through Liechtenstein: the foods that carry its everyday habits, celebrations, ingredients, and memory.
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3 foods to know.
Each selection includes the reason it belongs here—so this is a guide, not just a pile of names.
Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein Cheese Spaetzle
Käsknöpfle
Liechtenstein's cheese spaetzle: small egg-flour noodles layered with Alpine cheese and fried onions, often served with applesauce.
Liechtenstein
Hafalääb
Hafalaab
Balzers corn-semolina and flour dumpling patties, first poached and then fried in butter for sweet or savoury serving.
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.