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.
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- 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
Grapes and donuts
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- 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
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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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Grapes and donuts
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