Austrian Beef Recipes

Austrian cuisine — Wiener schnitzel, Tafelspitz, Kaiserschmarrn — refined Central European cooking — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Austrian cooks work with beef, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, braising, caramelising and frying.

A rich, deeply savoury red meat that rewards both fast, hot searing and long, slow braising depending on the cut. In this collection it's most often cooked with onion, bay leaves, sweet hungarian paprika, tomato paste, caraway seeds and garlic cloves. The dishes here span austrian classics ready in as little as 40 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.