Hiking tour to the mountain hut "Latzfonser Kreuz"

Today I will share some pictures from South-Tyrol with you. I took these pictures last summer when I went on a hiking trip with my friend Greta. We started our tour in a village called "Reinswald", not far from Bolzano, and went to the so-called "Latzfonser Kreuz", a mountain hut. It took us about 3 hours to get to the mountain hut, so it wasn't too exhausting!

Goulash Soup

Goulash soup is a traditinal Hungarian dish, but it is also a traditional dish in South Tyrol.

Goulash Soup

200 g onion
0.5 kg beef
1-2 tsp paprika
salt and pepper
cumin
80 g tomato purèe
1 tsp vinegar
thyme
1 garlic clove
1-2 l water
200 g potatoes

1. Chop the beef into small cubes
2. Fry the onion in oil
3. Add the beef, the paprika, the cumin, the tomato purèe, season with salt and pepper and fry some minutes longer
4. Mix with a glass of water and the vinegar, add some thyme and one garlic clove and cook at low temperature for another 10-15 minutes
5. Add the water and boil the soup well
6. Peel the potatoes, chop them into small cubes and cook them in salted water
7. Add the potatoes to the soup

Spinach-Knödel

Knödel are bread dumplings, they are an important part of the cuisine in Central Europe, e.g. in countries like Austria, Czech or Germany. They are also a really important component of the cuisine in Southtyrol. Our traditional dumplings are made with dried white bread, milk and eggs. We have many different Knödel, the traditional ones are made with bacon, but today I am gonna show you a vegetarian alternative to the traditional ones ,made with spinach instead of bacon.

Spinach-Knödel (for 4 servings)

250 g dried white bread
200 ml milk
600 g spinach
30 g butter
½ onion
1 garlic clove
2 eggs
salt, pepper and nutmeg
1 tsp plain white flour
parmesan
butter

1. Chop the white bread into small cubes and pour the milk over it
2. Cook the spinach in salted water
3. Fry the onions in the melted butter
4. Add the spinach and steam it briefly
5. Add the spinach and the eggs to the bread, mix well and taste the mixture with salt, pepper and nutmeg
6. Add the flour and form the ball-shaped Knödel
7. Cook the Knödel in salted water or steam-cook them for 15 minutes
8. Serve with melted butter and grated parmesan

Affogato al caffè

Affogato al caffè is a traditional Italian dessert and it is so simple. "Affogato al caffè" means literally drowned in coffee in Italian. All you need is vanilla ice cream and espresso coffee. Make the espresso coffee, put the ice cream in a cup or a dessert glass and pour some coffee over the ice cream. Serve while warm and melting!