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Eaten all over Liechtenstein
Small dumplings with sharp mountain cheese and crisp onion, the national dish.
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What to eat in Liechtenstein
Alpine cheese and dumplings between Austria and Switzerland.

Eaten all over Liechtenstein
Small dumplings with sharp mountain cheese and crisp onion, the national dish.
Eaten all over Liechtenstein
Cornmeal fried into crumbs, with apple sauce or coffee.
3Eaten all over Liechtenstein
Grated potato fried golden in butter.
Eaten all over Liechtenstein
Flour dumplings with bacon simmered with smoked meat.
Eaten all over Liechtenstein
A cold sausage of pork head and skin set firm, sliced thin with vinegar, onion and dark bread.
Eaten all over Liechtenstein
Apple rings fried in batter with cinnamon sugar.
Eaten all over Liechtenstein
Cornmeal toasted slowly in butter until it crumbles, eaten for breakfast with apple sauce or coffee.
Best: Everywhere in winter
Mountain cheese melted with white wine for dipping bread.
9Eaten all over Liechtenstein
Calf's liver cut in strips and quickly fried with onion, finished with a splash of wine and cream.
Best: Everywhere in autumn
A flat yeast sheet cake covered edge to edge with halved plums, baked when the plums come in.
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