Meat fondue, also known as Fondue Chinoise, or Chinese fondue, is Switzerland’s classic Christmas and New Year’s meal. This dish consists mainly of meats, vegetables, and delicious sauces cooked for 1-2 minutes by dipping in hot broth or oil. Making beef fondue at home is easy and fun!

Although the version made with oil was preferred in the past, nowadays fondue made with broth is preferred because it is both healthier and does not leave a heavy odor. Let’s take a look at this recipe made in broth.

Meat Fondue Recipe – Ingredients

1- For the broth;

• 1 lt broth (it can also be obtained from bouillon)
• 1 bay leaf
• A pinch of thyme
• Rosemary
• 1 tablespoon of cognac (optional)

2- To soak in broth;

• 200 g per person sliced meat as thin as bacon. (Best steak for fondue is tenderloin or beef fillet.)
• Sliced carrots
• Sliced mushroom
• Cauliflower
• Broccoli

3- For meat fondue sauces;

For the cocktail sauce;

• 150 gr yoghurt
• 40 gr mayonnaise
• 40 gr ketchup
• Very little lemon juice
• Salt, pepper, red pepper

For the curry sauce;

• 150 gr yoghurt
• 25 gr mayonnaise
• 1 banana
• 1 small apple
• 1 tablespoon of curry powder
• Some lemon juice
• Salt, pepper

For tartar sauce;

• 150 gr yoghurt
• 40 gr mayonnaise
• 1 boiled egg
• 3 pickled gherkins
• 1 tablespoon of lemon juice
• A pinch of sugar
• Salt, pepper

How to Make Meat Fondue

• Meat fondue is made in 2 stages.

How to Make Broth

1. Boil the broth on low heat for about 1 hour so that the broth can get the taste of herbs.
   
2. Before serving, you can add a spoonful of cognac.

How is Meat Fondue Served?

1. You can prepare your sauces by mixing all ingredients and blending them.

How is Meat Fondue Served?

• Put a fondue set in the center of the table like in the photo below.

• Put fondue meats and other ingredients in separate plates.
• If you don’t have a meat fondue set, put the broth in a pot and bring it to the table. Put a small spirit stove or a few candles under it.
• In order for the meats to cook, the broth must be constantly hot.

What to Serve With Meat Fondue? Meat Fondue Sides

• During serving, you can also serve pickled onions, pickled corn, and pickled cucumbers.

How to Eat Meat Fondue?

• Bring the thinly sliced raw meats in rolls to the table.
• Hold the meat with the tip of your fork. Dip your fork in the broth you put in the middle of the table and cook it for 1-2 minutes.
  
• You can eat the meat by dipping it in sauces on the table.
• Boil the vegetables beforehand and when you serve them on the table, dip them in the broth with your fork for 1-2 minutes and dip them in sauces according to preference.
  

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What is Cheese Fondue?

Cheese fondue is a delicious Swiss dish in which white wine is added to melted cheese, and bread is dipped into this mixture with the help of long forks. Swiss people, who want to find a way to eat their dried bread and hardened cheese, have found the most enjoyable way to consume these ingredients.

Cheese fondue is a meal that you can easily cook at home, with not many ingredients and very easy to cook. If you love all kinds of cheese, this cheese fondue recipe is just for you!

Ingredients for Cheese Fondue Recipe

• 1 whole bread
• 250 grams of gruyere cheese
• 250 grams of Emmental cheese
• 1 glass of white wine
• 1 tablespoon of lemon juice
• A pinch of nutmeg
• 2 tablespoons of cornstarch
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 2-3 tablespoons of cherry liqueur (Kirsch)

How to make Cheese Fondue?

1. Put the fondue pot on the stove and after it is well warmed, rub inside the pot thoroughly with the garlic that you cut in half.
   
2. In a separate bowl, grate the gruyere cheese and Emmental cheese with the thick side of the grater.
   
3. Add cornstarch to the grated cheese and mix.
4. Add the white wine and lemon juice to the fondue pan, which you have rubbed with garlic, and leave on medium heat until it is thoroughly heated.
   
5. After the wine is heated, put the pot on low heat and slowly add the grated cheese to the pot.
   
6. Stir the cheese with a wooden spoon, but be careful not to scratch the bottom while stirring.
   
7. Add nutmeg walnuts and mix.
8. Finally add Kirsch and mix one last time. Your fondue is ready!

How to Eat Cheese Fondue?

• You can eat the fondue by dipping the bite-sized sliced ​​bread into the pot with the help of a fork.

How to Serve Cheese Fondue?

• Cheese fondue is served in a cheese fondue pot. This set consists of a saucepan, fondue forks and a small spirit cooker.
• Place the fondue bowl on the spirit stove in the middle of the table so that it does not get cold (If you do not have a spirit stove, you can use candles).
• If you wish, you can fry the sliced bread in the oven and make it crunchy.

What to Dip in Cheese Fondue?

• In addition to bread, you can prepare boiled potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower or sliced fruits such as apples and pears for serving.
• White wine is what goes best with fondue as a beverage.

Cheese Fondue Recipe Tips

• After putting the cheese in the pot, the heat of the stove must be low and you should be very careful that the cheese does not burn.
• If you don’t have cherry liqueur, you can put another drink that is high in alcohol, such as vodka.
• If you want to have a lighter taste, you can prepare it without liquor.

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What is Bircher Muesli?

Bircher muesli is food that Swiss people consume for breakfast, lunch, snacks, and even dinner. A Swiss doctor named Maximilian Bircher Benner invented this muesli recipe to avoid making his patients eat heavy meals. Since that day, it has become indispensable for the Swiss.

This simple Bircher Muesli recipe is perfect for those who want to eat healthily! If you want to take a break from the classic Turkish breakfast and eat a little healthier, you can easily prepare it at home. Let’s take a look at its recipe.

Ingredients for Bircher Muesli

Ingredients for the mixture;

• 1 bowl of oats
• 1/2 glass of milk
• 1/4 cup apple juice
• 1-2 tablespoons of lemon juice
• 1 apple
• 2 spoons of honey
• 1 bowl of yogurt
• A pinch of cinnamon

Ingredients for Topping

Your favorite fresh and dried fruits (In my opinion, what goes best with muesli are strawberries, bananas, blueberries, raspberries, raisins, and dried apricots), dried fruits, dried coconut, etc.

How to Make Bircher Muesli

1. Mix the oats, milk, apple juice, and lemon juice into a bowl. Keep this mixture in the fridge overnight.
   
2. The next day, take the muesli out of the fridge and add honey and grated apple to sweeten the mixture.
   
3. Then add the cinnamon and yogurt and mix well.
4. Add your favorite fruits and nuts.

Bircher Muesli Recipe Tips

• In the traditional recipe, oatmeal is soaked the night before and kept in the fridge.
• But some believe that a short time like 10 minutes will be enough. You can try both and decide for yourself.
  

What Are the Benefits of Muesli?

One of the most frequently asked questions is what are the benefits of muesli, whether it’s healthy, and helps to lose weight. Muesli can help you with weight loss because even if you consume only a small amount, it keeps you full. And if you are full for a long time, you eat less.

In addition, muesli has dozens of different kinds of vitamins and minerals. It is incredibly rich, not fiber, and thus easily digested. Being a low-calorie food, muesli also helps to eat slowly because it requires a lot of chewing.

We can list the benefits of muesli as follows;

• Keeps you full for a long time
• Contributes to digestion as it is very high in fiber
• Very rich in vitamins
• Prevents constipation
• Full of minerals
• Good for eye health
• Reduces cholesterol
• Reduces heart diseases
• Has high protein
• A healthy source of energy
• Helps to lose weight

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What is Chocolate Fondue?

Even I, who is constantly on a diet, forget about the diet when chocolate fondue is involved. Because anything containing chocolate is eaten anytime, anywhere, and under any condition, and there is no exception!

Chocolate fondue, Switzerland’s most delicious discovery, can be prepared in 10 minutes. Let’s have a look at the recipe together and start enjoying it in no time!

Ingredients for Chocolate Fondue Recipe

• 100 g of dark chocolate
• 100 g of milk chocolate
• 200 g of cream or milk
• Fresh fruits such as bananas, strawberries, pineapples, tangerines, grapes, apples
• Diced white bread or waffles
• Marshmallow
• 2 tablespoons of liqueurs like Baileys or Amaretto (Optional)

How to Make Chocolate Fondue?

1. Put the cream in the pan and heat it over the lowest heat (even better if you do it in a double boiler).
   
2. Then add the small chocolate chips you have cut into it and mix well.
   
3. When the chocolate melts, add Baileys, Amaretto or vanilla extract for extra flavour.
   
4. After the chocolate melts completely and the mixture becomes homogeneous, remove the chocolate from the stove.
   
5. In a separate place, slice all the fruits and bread bite-size.
   

How to Eat Chocolate Fondue?

• f you have a chocolate fondue set, you can eat sliced fruits and bread pieces by dipping them in chocolate with the help of long forks. If not, you can use normal cutlery and a ceramic pot or a glass container.

How to Serve Chocolate Fondue?

• Place the fondue bowl on the spirit stove in the middle of the table so that it does not get cold (If you do not have a spirit stove, you can use candles).

Chocolate Fondue Recipe Tips

• Since the consistency of the fondue will get darker as it waits on the stove, remove it from the stove as soon as the chocolate melts.
• If the fondue is still hard, you can add cream into it.

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What is Raclette?

Besides being a Swiss cheese, Raclette is also the name of the dish made with this raclette cheese.

It’s used by melting or grilling and not raw. As well as being plain, there are also varieties such as with black pepper, chili pepper, vegetable, garlic and smoked.

Traditional raclette is made by putting half a wheel of cheese on fire as in below picture. After the melted part of the cheese is put on the potato or bread, the cheese is kept in front of the fire again.

The grill used in raclette at homes is as in the picture below; however, if you don’t have a grill like this, you can use a normal grill for the other ingredients and melt the cheese in a pan.

Ingredients for Raclette Recipe

There are 3 essential ingredients for Raclette;

• Raclette cheese
• Potatoes
• Bread

The rest is entirely up to you. I add a few suggestions below.

• Pickled gherkins, pickled corn and/or pickled onion.
• Processed meats such as salami, bacon and sausage
• Thin slices of meat, chicken (cubes, steak, breast, etc., boneless, if possible),
  
• Grilled vegetables such as broccoli, zucchini, eggplants, peppers, mushrooms, etc.

How to Make Raclette Recipe?

Since the grill will be doing the whole cooking process, all you need to do is as follows;

1. Boiling the potatoes.
2. To cook meat and vegetables on a grill.
3. Put the thick-sliced (1 cm) raclette cheese in small pans under the grill and melt them. You can decide how much you want to melt to your delight. For example, while I keep it for 5 minutes and melt it slightly, my husband keeps it longer and almost fries it.
   
4. Cut the bread into small pieces, slice the potatoes and put them on your plate. Spread the melted cheese over the bread and potatoes on the plate with the help of a spatula.
   

How is Raclette Served?

• Traditionally, raclette is served with boiled potatoes, gherkins, pickled corn, pickled onions and olives. The potatoes used for serving shouldn’t be peeled.
• The potatoes and bread are cut into cubes and cheese is poured over them.

Raclette Recipe Tip

• The potatoes should be served hot.
• You can prevent vegetables and meats from sticking by putting a pinch of oil on the grill.
• If you boil broccoli and cauliflower before grilling, then it is much easier and quicker to grill them.

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What is Rösti?

Roesti used to be the breakfast dish of Swiss farmers. However, today this grated and fried potato cake finds its place on the tables as a main dish or snack at any time of the day.

When making rösti, Swiss people use different methods. Each region has its own rösti recipe.

I will be sharing a few of these methods with you below.

Ingredients for Rösti Recipe

• 4 medium potatoes
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup flour
• 2 spoons of cream cheese (optional)
• A pinch of salt
• A pinch of black pepper
• A pinch of nutmeg
• Butter

How to Make Potato Rösti?

1. Boil the potatoes. (Ideally, it is recommended to boil it overnight in order to grate properly and keep the potatoes in the refrigerator after cooling them completely)
   
2. The next day, take the boiled potatoes out of the fridge, peel them and grate in a bowl.
   
3. Take the boiled potatoes out of the fridge the next day, peel them and grate in a bowl.
   
4. Heat the oil over high heat in a pan.
5. Take a large tablespoon of the mixture, drop it into the oil, press it to take the shape of the pan and cook until the bottom is brown. (12-15 minutes)
   
6. When the bottom turns brown, add a little more oil to the pan. Turn the rösti over and fry the other side. (Another 12-15 minutes)
   

How to Serve Potato Rösti?

• If you wish, you can add bacon into the grated potato and cook it together, or you can put the bacon on the rösti while serving.
• Apart from that, you can add caramelized onion, cheese or fried eggs on the rösti.
• While cooking, you can add onion or any cheese you like, and serve apple paste with it.

Rösti Recipe Tips

• You need to use a non-stick pan.
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What is Bratwurst?

Bratwurst is made from a mixture of pork and beef or only pork. There are many methods of cooking bratwurst. You can boil the sausages in water, fry them in oil or grill them. In this bratwurst recipe I will give you the recipe for bratwurst with beer.

Ingredients for Bratwurst Recipe

• 4 Bratwurst (or similar sausage)
• 1 can of beer
• 4 onions
• Red pepper
• Salt
• Black pepper
• Olive oil

How to Make Bratwurst with Beer

1. Heat the pan over medium heat.
2. Add some olive oil to the hot pan.
3. Add finely chopped onions to the pan and fry the onions over medium heat.
   
4. Add a bottle of beer over the roasted onions.
5. Add the bratwursts and seasonings to the warm beer and onion mix. Cook it for about 10-12 minutes.
   
6. Then remove the bratwursts from the mixture and cook in a separate pan or grill. (If you are going to cook it in a pan, you can add some oil or fry it without oil)
   
7. While the bratwursts are cooking, continue to cook the beer and onion mix.

How Is Bratwurst Served?

• Once the bratwurst is cooked, you can serve the beer and onion mixture by placing it on the sausages or next to the plate.

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What is Zürcher Geschnetzeltes?

This Zürcher Geschnetzeltes dish from the city of Zurich in Switzerland means “Zurich slicing”. This Zurich-style sauteed meat with cream and mushrooms has a very tasty and practical recipe. Swiss people prepare this recipe from veal, pork, chicken or turkey meat as well as game meat during hunting season.

Ingredients for Zürcher Geschnetzeltes

• 600 grams of beef cut into strips
• A few shallots and one regular onion
• 250 grams of thinly sliced mushrooms
• 1 tablespoon of flour
• 200 ml white wine
• 2 tablespoons of butter
• 200 g of cream
• 1 teaspoon of grated lemon
• Salt
• Black pepper
• 1 tablespoon of chopped parsley

How to Make Zurich-Style Meat Saute with Cream and Mushrooms?

1. Heat the pan and add the butter.
2. Put the meats into the pan that is heated over high heat and remove it from the pan before leaving the juice.
   
3. Reduce the heat of the stove, put the onions in the pan and saute lightly.
4. Add mushrooms and cook a little.
5. Then add flour and mix well.
6. Add the white wine and boil.
7. Then add the cream and boil a little more.
8. Add the lemon peel and spices and mix.
9. Add the previously cooked meat to the sauce and meat. Cook for a few more minutes.
10. Sprinkle parsley on top and serve immediately.

How to serve Zürcher Geschnetzeltes?

• It is usually served with rösti.

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What is Brezel?

Although I mention it on the Swiss food list, these salty bagels are actually unique to Germany. However, it is consumed in Switzerland just as much as in Germany and is one of the national foods for Swiss people.

Scroll down to see the brezel recipe which is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside and tastes like a cracker!

Ingredients for Brezel Recipe

Ingredients for Brezel Dough

• 500 grams of flour
• 250 ml warm water
• 2 teaspoons of sugar
• 1 pack of yeast
• 3 teaspoons of baking powder
• 50 grams of butter
• 1 teaspoon of salt

Ingredients for Brezel

• 6 tablespoons of baking soda
• 2 liters of water
• Coarse salt

How to Make Brezel Recipe?

Brezel Dough Preparation

1. Pour half a glass of warm water into a small bowl and add sugar.
2. Add yeast on top, mix and set aside.
3. Put the flour in a large mixing bowl and add the melted butter and baking powder.
   
4. Add the rest of the warm water to the flour mixture, then add the yeast and sugar water to the dough.
   
5. Stir a little and add salt.
6. Knead the dough until it is soft and elastic.
7. Cover and let the dough stand for 1 hour to rise.
8. Knead the rising dough a little more and divide it into 8 parts.
9. After dividing the dough, let it rest for 10 minutes in order to shape it easily.
   
10. Take the dough pieces and shape them as in the below picture. Make sure that the middle of the dough is relatively thick compared to the end.
    

How to Cook Brezel?

1. Add 2 lt of water to a saucepan and boil.
2. After the water boils, turn the stove down and add 6 spoons of baking soda to the water.
3. Take the brezels, drop them into the water one by one and hold for 10 seconds. Then remove them and place them on the baking tray.
   
4. Sprinkle coarse salt on the bretzels you lay on the baking tray and leave to rest for 15 minutes.
   
5. Heat the stove to 200 ° C and put the brezels in the oven.
6. It will be cooked in 15-20 minutes.

How is the German Bagel Brezel Served?

• You can serve the Brezels with cold butter.

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What is Papet Vaudois?

Papet Vaudois is a very popular dish from the Swiss canton of Vaud. You can use any kind of smoked sausage, as it will be difficult to find a sausage from the canton of Vaud for this very easy to make the dish.

Ingredients for Papet Vaudois Recipe

• 1 kilo of leeks
• 500 grams of potatoes
• 1 smoked sausage
• 1 medium onion
• 1 tablespoon of olive oil or butter
• 6 tablespoons of white wine (50 ml)
• 200 ml cream
• Salt
• Black pepper

How to Make Papet Vaudois?

1. Wash the leeks and cut them into thin strips.
2. Add oil to the pan, then sauté the onion and leeks for a few minutes.
3. Add salt and pepper.
4. Add wine and boil for 10 minutes.
5. Peel the potatoes, cut into cubes and throw them into the pan. Cook for another 10 minutes.
6. Add sausage on top and cover without mixing.
7. Cook on low heat for 20 minutes.
8. Take out the sausage and add the cream into the vegetable mixture and mix well.
9. Put the sausage back on the vegetables.

How to Serve Papet Vaudois?

• Slice the sausages and serve over the vegetables.

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