2014年10月21日火曜日

Austrian cuisine and a recipe for Tafelspitz

1.    Popular Austrian cuisines
Wiener Schnitzel
              This is a beef fillet steak in Vienna style. Today you can see these types of fillet steak in many other countries as well.
Wiener Tafelspitz
              It’s a type of beef stew. The Emperor Franz Joseph loved this and many citizens used to try to eat it for lunch although it’s a pretty expensive cuisine.
Salami, Schinken (slices of ham)
              Austrians consume more pork meat than any other kind of meat. These foods are also inventions to preserve rare meat longer.
Wiener ausgebak-kener Karphen
              It’s a piece of carp fish (very popular in Austria today) with dices of vegetables.
lobster
              Lobsters had been imported from Czech or Hungary. But today they’re pretty rare in Austria.
potato salad
              Austria is a big consumer of potatoes.
Klare Rindsuppe
              It’s Austrian traditional soup (tasted with beef and consommé)
Schlagobers
              Whip cream is not only essential for Austrian sweets but also popular delight by itself.

2.Today’s recipe
Tafelspitz
Ingredients (for 6 people)
Beef・・・As much as you want
Chives・・・As much as you want
Consommé・・・One block
Spinach・・・One bunch
White sauce・・・As much as you want (not too much)
Apple・・・half a piece
Horseradish・・・Some (as much as you want)
Lemon juice・・・a little
Salt and pepper・・・a little
Carrots and potatoes・・・These vegetables are optional. If you like, you can use them as much as you want.

1.      Simmer blocks of beef meat with consommé soup for 5 hours on low heat. (If you are to use a pressure cooker, it’ll take only 2 hours.)
2.      Cool these blocks meet off in a fridge for 2 hours.
3.      Cut these cold blocks meet into a size of a steak
4.      Put salt and pepper on these blocks. Put prepared meat on a plate and heat them up with consommé soup.
5.      Put meet on your dish with cut chives and following 2 sauces. Don’t forget to put consommé soup, too.

Spinach sauce
Puree boiled spinach well. Mix it with white sauce. If you like, you can arrange the taste with salt and pepper.
   Apple sauce
              Grate an apple and mix it with lemon juice and a little salt and pepper. Simmer it and put a horseradish in the end.

              I recommend you to use a pressure cooker for this recipe. Also you should make 2 sauces while you’re simmering blocks of meat so that you can use your time more effectively.

3 What’s Austrian cuisine? Why Tafelspitz?
              Although many people may think Austria is extremely influenced by Germany, there was an era when the empire prospered and their own culture was widely popular. Also surrounded by many neighbor countries like Germany, Czech, Hungary, Balkan peninsula and so on, their cuisine has been improved in many ways. Especially, variations of soup and delights are notable.
              Sadly, today Austria no longer has the cultural impact on the entire world. Traditional beef dish has been replaced by cheap pork meat and they don’t import much fish and many lobsters any more like they used to. Of course, their traditional foods are still alive, however, we may not see them so many times in our daily lives.
              That’s why I choose Tafelspitz as an Austrian representative cuisine. Tafelspitz used to be an Emperor’s favorite and known as an expensive food. As you see in the recipe, it takes about 8 hours to make this cuisine if you don’t use a pressure cooker. And Tafelspitz includes an aspect of old good Austrian beef dish and tasty and nutritious soup culture.
              What’s more, Tafelspitz is known as a healthy dish. Originally, Tafelspitz means a part of meat of a cow’s back which contains little fat. This dish also has good chives and other vegetables. And having hot soup heats you up from an inside of your body. This shall keep you healthy especially from now, a cold winter.
              If you have it for lunch, you may feel being the old Austrian nobles.

References
Tikyu no arukikata.jp
cookpad
hankyu travel

And my Austrian friend

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