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🇦🇹 Traditional dishes from Austria

3 dishes people actually cook in Austria: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.

What can you cook from Austria? 3 traditional Austria dishes, from Käsespätzle (55 min, the quickest) to Sachertorte (1000 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.

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Käsespätzle

55 minutes · medium · 10 ingredients

Käsespätzle, a traditional dish from Austria

Alpine egg noodles layered hot with Vorarlberg mountain cheese and sharp Räßkäse until the cheese pulls into strands.

  • 200 g Vorarlberg mountain cheese (Bergkäse)
  • 100 g sharp alpine cheese (Räßkäse)
  • 500 g plain flour
  • 5 eggs
  • 125 ml water
  • 2 onions
  • 150 g butter
  • 1 pinch nutmeg
  • 1 bunch chives
  • 1 tsp salt

Sachertorte

16 hours and 40 minutes · hard · 9 ingredients

Sachertorte, a traditional dish from Austria

A Viennese chocolate cake sealed in sieved apricot jam and coated with a poured sugar-and-chocolate icing that sets to a firm fudge shell.

  • 280 g dark chocolate
  • 200 g apricot jam
  • 140 g unsalted butter
  • 110 g powdered sugar
  • 6 eggs
  • 310 g granulated sugar
  • 140 g all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 200 ml heavy cream

Tafelspitz

3 hours and 20 minutes · medium · 12 ingredients

Tafelspitz, a traditional dish from Austria

A rump of beef held just below a simmer for hours, served in its own clear broth with apple horseradish.

  • 1500 g beef top rump (tafelspitz cut)
  • 500 g beef marrow bones
  • 1 onion
  • 2 carrots
  • 200 g celery root
  • 1 leek
  • 100 g fresh horseradish
  • 2 apples
  • 800 g potatoes
  • 1 bunch chives
  • 1 tsp black peppercorns
  • 2 tsp salt

What do people eat in Austria?

Copper documents three dishes from Austria: Käsespätzle, Sachertorte and Tafelspitz. Chives and eggs each appear in more than one recipe. All three are boiled. One of the three needs an oven. Between them they use 28 different ingredients.

What ingredients do you need for cooking from Austria?

The three recipes need 28 ingredients between them, of which 2 are shared by more than one dish. Chives the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 4 use chives. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.

How long do recipes from Austria take?

Käsespätzle is the quickest at 55 minutes. Sachertorte is the longest at 1000 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 200 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.

Which dish from Austria is easiest to make at home?

None of the dishes from Austria here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. Käsespätzle is the shortest way in.

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