Typical South Tyrolean dishes & products
For a better understanding of the menus in South Tyrol, we give you a translation of the most typical dishes and products that you can find on the menus of local restaurants, huts and farm taverns.
The barley soup or Gerstesuppe, as it is called in South Tyrol is a dish that never fails in the menu in the fall and winter.
Comugnero Silvana - Fotolia.com- Äpflkaichlan: apple slices covered with a pastry made of milk and eggs, fried in boiling oil
- Bockans: goat roast
- Buchteln: raised pastry filled with jam, baked in the oven and served with vanilla sauce
- Gerschtnsuppe: barley soup with smoked meat, potatoes and vegetables
- Grantn: cowberries
- Graukas: low-fat cheese, e.g. “Ahrntaler Graukäse” cheese, which is particularly aromatic
- Gselchtis: salted and smoked meat, mainly pork
- Kaminwurzn: a kind of smoked sausages
- Keschtn: chestnuts
- Krapflan: sweets fried in hot oil filled with different types of jam
Strauben are a typical dessert from South Tyrol that is prepared of a dough made of eggs and milk. It is fried in oil and served with cranberry jam.
IDM Alto Adige/Frieder Blickle- Marillnknedl: sweet dumplings with apricots, served as a dessert
- Muas/muis: a sort of porridge made of milk, flour and butter, stirred in a pan
- Niggilan: small sweet dumplings with no filling
- Nuier: new wine
- Ribisl: currants
- Rohne: beetroot
- Schüttelbrot: crispy, hard and thin flatbread
- Schworzplentinaknedl: dumplings with buckwheat flour
- Selchkaree: cured pork
- South Tyroelan speck: mild smoked and air-dried raw ham with herb crust
- Strauben: spirally fried batter served with icing sugar and served with cranberry jam
- Topfen: quark, curd
Enjoy traditional dishes such as doughnuts with cranberry jam on South Tyrolean farms.
SBB/Roter Hahn - Frieder BlickleRed Rooster: South Tyrolean dishes with tradition
South Tyrolean cuisine combines Alpine down-to-earthness with Mediterranean sophistication – and it is precisely this culinary heritage that is cultivated with love on the Red Rooster farms (German: Roter Hahn). Here, traditional dishes are created from fresh, farm-grown ingredients: from savoury dumplings and homemade pasta to sweet delicacies such as apple strudel or grapes.
Many of these recipes have been passed down for generations and reflect the diversity of South Tyrolean culinary culture. Anyone who wants to try authentic South Tyrolean dishes or cook them themselves will find original recipe ideas and genuine flavour experiences at Red Rooster – true to the motto: regional, natural, unadulterated.
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South Tyrolean specialities: spinach ravioli with melted butter and dumplings!
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At the inns, restaurants and mountain huts in Partschins and environs, you can enjoy typical South Tyrolean dishes and traditional desserts.
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The best sweety dumplings are with apricots.
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