Traditional Foods of Liechtenstein

National Dish: Käsknöpfle

Small cheese-and-flour dumplings boiled until they float, then mixed with fried onions and bacon.

Other Typical Dishes

• Riebel: Cornmeal mush fried with butter, onions, bacon.
• Maluns: Grated potatoes, flour, egg, fried in butter.
• Torkelfestessen: Harvest feast with pork products, sauerkraut, potatoes.
• Schnitzel: Breaded fried veal or pork.
• Rösti: Potato pancake, often with cheese or applesauce.
• Birnenbrot: Pear, nut, and spice bread.
• Zwetschgenkuchen: Plum tart.

Desserts

• Apfelmus (applesauce), Rüblikuchen (carrot cake), Schoggikuchen (chocolate cake), Vanilleglace (vanilla ice cream), Nusstorte (nut tart), Engadiner Nusstorte (nut-honey-cream tart).