# The best typical Austrian dishes

The classics of Austrian and Viennese cooking, from Wiener schnitzel to Kaiserschmarrn, according to travel guides, recipe sites and Austrians' favourite dishes.

- 1 vote · 14 items
- Sep 13, 2024 · verena_wien
- https://even.best/en/l/158/the-best-typical-austrian-dishes

## Top 12

1. **Sachertorte** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Chocolate cake with apricot jam, served at Hotel Sacher since 1832.
2. **Wiener schnitzel** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Thinly pounded veal escalope fried golden in clarified butter, with potato salad.
3. **Tafelspitz** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Boiled beef with apple horseradish, chive sauce and fried potatoes, Emperor Franz Joseph's favourite.
4. **Kaiserschmarrn** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Torn pancake with raisins and icing sugar, with plum compote.
5. **Apple strudel** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Paper-thin stretched dough with apples, cinnamon and raisins.
6. **Viennese goulash** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Beef goulash with lots of onion and paprika, with a bread roll.
7. **Backhendl** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Breaded fried chicken, a Viennese classic.
8. **Kasnocken / Kässpätzle** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Spätzle with mountain cheese and fried onions from Tyrol and Vorarlberg.
9. **Tiroler Gröstl** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pan-fried potatoes with bacon or beef and a fried egg.
10. **Marillenknödel** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Apricots in quark dough rolled in buttered breadcrumbs, a Wachau summer classic.
11. **Germknödel** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yeast dumpling filled with plum jam, with poppy seeds and vanilla sauce; a mountain hut classic.
12. **Brettljause** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Wooden board of bacon, sausage, cheese, spreads and bread at a Heuriger.
13. **Carinthian Kasnudeln** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pasta pockets filled with quark, potato and mint.
14. **Linzer cake** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Shortcrust cake with nuts and currant jam under a dough grid is considered one of the oldest cakes in the world.

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