~1062 cal · 44g protein · 69g carbs · 67g fat (estimated, per serving)
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Cheesy dumplings topped with golden fried onions
🇱🇮 Vaduz
Käsknöpfle is the national comfort dish of Liechtenstein, a close cousin of Alpine käsespätzle. Rustic egg-dough dumplings are boiled, then layered with plenty of aromatic mountain cheese until it turns stringy and rich, and finished with a heap of golden fried onions — the Alps in a single bowl.
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Ingredients
Serves 4 —
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2.5 cups flour
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3 eggs
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2 cups mountain cheese (Alpkäse or Gruyère), grated
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2 large onions, sliced and fried
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1/2 cup + 2 tbsp + 1 tsp + a scrape milk, butter, salt, and nutmeg
Instructions
1
Whisk the flour, eggs (or chickpea slurry), milk, salt, and nutmeg into a thick, sticky batter and rest 15 minutes.
2
Press the batter through a spätzle grater or colander into boiling salted water; the dumplings are done when they float.
3
Fry the onions slowly in butter until deeply golden and sweet.
4
Toss the hot drained dumplings with the grated cheese in layers until stringy and melted.
5
Pile into bowls and crown with the fried onions.
Vaduz tradition.
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🌏 While it simmers — know your destination
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Vaduz. A castle-topped capital that lives for käsknöpfle.
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Liechtenstein. An Alpine principality that lives for cheesy spätzle.
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Europe. Village recipes guarded for generations.
The story behind this dish is up top — worth a read while the pot works.
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Richard Moore & Kelsey Tucker
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