3 recipes using cheese — Wiener schnitzel, Tafelspitz, Kaiserschmarrn — refined Central European cooking.
These 3 austrian cheese recipes are ready in about 37 minutes on average, with 320–490 kcal per serving, and 67% are rated easy enough for a weeknight. Every recipe includes exact ingredient quantities, step-by-step instructions and full nutrition per serving.
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 cheese, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are baking, simmering and boiling.
A concentrated hit of savoury, salty richness used to melt, gratinate, crumble or finish a dish. In this collection it's most often cooked with fine sea salt and butter. The dishes here span austrian classics ready in as little as 15 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.
Reader favourite: Austrian Festival Lemon Herb Flatbread is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.8★ from 12,525 ratings.
Austrian Festival Lemon Herb Flatbread brings austrian flavor to a practical flatbread built with flatbread dough, butter, poppy seeds, apples and breadcrumbs, and a fresh chives finish.
Half-moon dumplings filled with a tangy farmer's cheese, potato and mint mixture, boiled and served with browned butter.
Rye bread topped with a paprika-spiced cheese spread flecked with caraway and onion — a beloved Austrian tavern snack, liptauer.
Buy in blocks and grate fresh — pre-shredded cheese is coated with anti-caking starch that hampers melting. Match the cheese to the job: good melters (mozzarella, gruyère) versus crumblers (feta, parmesan).
Let cheese come to room temperature for the fullest flavour. Add delicate cheeses off the heat to stop them splitting; build a smooth sauce with a roux or a starch.
A calcium- and protein-rich food; it is also high in saturated fat and sodium, so a little sharp cheese goes a long way.
Most of these 3 Austrian cheese recipes are ready in around 37 minutes from start to finish. The quickest, Austrian Liptauer Cheese Sandwich, takes about 15 minutes, while the slower-cooked dishes run up to 60 minutes.
Across this collection they range from about 320 to 490 kcal per serving, averaging 390 kcal — Austrian Liptauer Cheese Sandwich is the lightest option at 320 kcal.
Austrian Festival Lemon Herb Flatbread is a great place to start — it's rated easy and comes together in about 37 minutes. 67% of the recipes here are beginner-friendly.
In these recipes, cheese is most often paired with fine sea salt and butter. Austrian kitchens also lean on its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends.
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