The Austrian Liptauer Recipe is a flavorful cheese spread enriched awith Paprika and similar spices and ingredients. If you like cream cheese varieties spread over your bread, you might enjoy my spicy cream cheese spread. What is Liptauer? Liptauer is a well seasoned and spiced cottage cheese spread. This particular spicy spread is traditionally made … [Read more...]
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Vegan Tikka Masala Sauce Recipe
My favorite Tikka Masala Sauce is by accident vegan and so much tastier and healthier than the stuff you get in stores! The freezer friendly curry paste can be used for various tikka masala meals. 📕 What is Tikka Masala Sauce? Tikka Masala Sauce is a thin-spiced curry paste variety to prepare the famous Chicken Tikka Masala dish. Popular discounters such … [Read more...]
Pan Sautéed Asparagus with Balsamic Vinegar
Pan sautéed asparagus with balsamic vinegar is a super easy and quick side dish idea. The spring asparagus season is upon us, so let's enjoy it! I also love this asparagus side dish served up with mini Wellington or Salisbury Steak. 📜 Which Asparagus type to use? I use green baby asparagus to successfully cook this Italian asparagus dish in a skillet … [Read more...]
French Steak and Mushroom Sauce
Pan seared Beef Steak and Mushroom is a delicious dinner meal. I tend to prepare this recipe frequently because it's straightforward and a one-pan dish that we all enjoy at home. 🔪 How to make it? This steak and mushroom dish is prepared in two stages. Step 1 The steaks are seasoned and pan seared on both sides over sliced onions. The onions … [Read more...]
White Wine Sautéed Oyster Mushrooms Recipe
Skillet Sautéed Oyster Mushrooms Recipe prepared with white wine. Serve these pan-cooked oyster mushrooms as a side dish with steaks or a chicken meal. This mushroom recipe was based on my sauteed portobello mushroom recipe. Ingredients Tips for cleaning your Oyster Mushrooms Oyster mushrooms can be full of mud, hay, and insects hiding between the … [Read more...]
Spicy Sriracha Mayo Sauce
Spicy Sriracha Mayo is one of our favorite sauces any time of the year. You are going to love dipping into this spicy mayo sauce if you liked my Yum Yum Sauce! Learn in this post how to make sriracha mayo get some ideas. 📕 What is Sriracha Mayo? Sriracha Mayo is made of Mayonnaise, Sriracha and can contain other flavor enhancing … [Read more...]
Chicken Geschnetzeltes with Hunter Sauce
Chicken Geschnetzeltes with Hunter Sauce is a delicious one-pan meal that you can prepare within 25 minutes! This dish is super popular in Austria and resembles the Jagerschnitzel and the Chicken with mushroom white wine. 📕 What is Geschnetzeltes? Geschnetzeltes is a Swiss/Austrian definition for sliced meats. When someone says geschnetzeltes it can either … [Read more...]
St.Johann in Tirol in Winter Austria
St.Johann in Tirol is a quaint small town, nestled in the Austrian Alps. It is a popular international winter sports destination and has a lot to offer! Incidentally, this is my home town and who else, but a local, can better recommend the best things to do in St.Johann in Winter, right? Where is St.Johann in Tirol? St Johann in Tirol is located in Austria, … [Read more...]
Cabbage Sausage Soup Recipe
The Cabbage Sausage Soup is a wonderfully flavored soup that will bring you comfort in your life. The soup comes together easily in one pot and it's budget-friendly! 🔪 How to make it? Here is an overview of how to make this from scratch. The full recipe is in the recipe card further below. Step 1 Saute onion, sausage slices, and cabbage. Season with … [Read more...]
Guide to Hallstatt Austria
Hallstatt Austria is a picture-perfect village at a lake, hidden between dramatic mountains. I'm going to show you why you need to plan your next trip to Europe's most beautiful village! Where is Hallstatt Austria? Hallstatt in a quaint village, tightly nestled between the Salzkammergut mountains and the Hallstätter lake in the Austrian Alps in central … [Read more...]
Sauteed Portobello Mushroom Recipe
Sauteed Portobello mushroom skillet is flavorful and so easy to prepare. It will take you only a few minutes to prepare this outstanding side dish. Upgrade your meal! See how I prepare the portobello mushrooms further below in my video and get the recipe. 📕 What are Portobello Mushrooms? Portobello Mushrooms are large Mushrooms with a wide brown cap. … [Read more...]
Zell am See Austria (Summer)
Zell am See is a picturesque small town, nestled in the Austrian Alps between mountains. A large lake known as the "Zell" touches the town, which makes Zell am See all the more beautiful! Where is Zell am See? Zell am See is situated in the region of Salzburg in Austria, at 750 meters elevation above sea level. Zell am See is situated near the well-known Skiing … [Read more...]
Sweet Onion Sauce Recipe
Sweet Onion Sauce is my take on the onion sauce that you get at Subway. I have modified the sauce so that it can be used beyond subs and sandwiches. 🔪 How to use the Onion Sauce? The fake Subway Sweet Onion Sauce can also be used as a dipping sauce. As part of a salad dressing, as well as in soups and sauces with meals, as it adds easily flavors to … [Read more...]
Hot Mango Habanero Sauce Recipe
My super hot Mango Habanero Sauce with real fresh habanero chili peppers and mango fruit. This sauce is irresistibly hot and sweet, plus it also looks stunning! This is part of my homemade hot sauce series, which also includes the Thai sweet chili sauce and Buffalo sauce. 🔪 How to make it? Here is a quick overview to give you an idea of how this sauce … [Read more...]
Cheesy Gnocchi Cream Sauce with Bacon
Amazingly cheesy Gnocchi cream sauce with bacon for my Italian homemade Potato Gnocchi. Love this gnocchi sauce recipe so much, I don't make any other cream sauce for gnocchi at times! The other day I shared my homemade Potato gnocchi recipe. The dough is a potato dough, the kind which is common in North Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Croatia, … [Read more...]
Cabbage Sausage Skillet Recipe
Cabbage Sausage Skillet is a quick lunch or dinner meal that tastes great any time of the year. At the same time, the sausage and cabbage skillet is an inexpensive meal and is a great idea when you don't know what to cook. 🥬 Ingredients The beauty of this quick and easy cabbage sausage skillet dish is that you can adapt it to your liking with the ingredients … [Read more...]
Grossglockner High Alpine Road Austria
The Grossglockner is the highest mountain glacier in Austria and is accessible via the scenic High Alpine Road. Rich in beauty and helping you to immerse in your surrounding a road trip on this high pass road in the alps will bring you closer to nature and the unique plant and animal kingdom in these hights. I give you a peak of what to expect from this trip to the … [Read more...]
3 ingredient Pad Thai Sauce Recipe
A Pad Thai Sauce Recipe is a useful addition to any Asian food lover's kitchen repertoire! If you are into Pad Thai noodles, then making your own pad thai sauce from scratch is the next step to add value to your Asian food plate. 📕 What is Pad Thai Sauce? Pad Thai Sauce is a stir-fry sauce used to flavor the popular pad thai stir-fry noodle dish from … [Read more...]
Sauteed Okra Recipe
10 minute pan fried okra recipe without slime, the BEST fried okra recipe. I have put together some tips on how to pan fried okra easily with NO goo that the vegetable otherwise produces. See my how-to video further down, where I explain my tricks and okra cooking approach. Okra is a misunderstood vegetable. This elongated vegetable has been around for a … [Read more...]
Cheesy Cauliflower Casserole
Baked Cauliflower Casserole was the dish that my mum made to get us to eat our vegetables when we were kids. And it worked! I always happily gobbled up my cauliflower cheese bake. This cheesy cauliflower casserole bake is a skinny french version, without the unnecessary calories, and it's meatless. 📕 What is cauliflower Mac and Cheese? The … [Read more...]
14 Indian Cauliflower Recipes
Indian cauliflower recipes can come handy in so many ways! If you like spiced curried food and the humble, delicious, filling and always affordable cauliflower, then you need to save this cauliflower collection. BTW, Gobi is the Hindi word for Cauliflower. Cauliflower is such a versatile vegetable, and I have not met many people who don't like … [Read more...]
Shrimp Fra Diavolo Pasta Sauce Recipe
Shrimp Fra Diavolo is a fiery spicy tomato-based sauce, which is most commonly served with pasta. This delicious, fiery hot, one-pot shrimp fra diavolo (or shrimp diablo) comes together rather quick and easy and is packed with gorgeous flavors to make your weeknight all the more special! I have created a useful video with the shrimp fra diavolo sauce … [Read more...]
Yum Yum Sauce Recipe
The Yum Yum Sauce Recipe will be your favorite shrimp sauce recipe to make in the future! The pink Yum Yum Sauce is flavorful and easily prepared fresh at home. Wondering what's in the sauce, and what makes the yum yum sauce that special? 📕 What is Yum Yum Sauce? Yum Yum Sauce is a popular Japanese Hibachi Steak House Sauce. Usually, this … [Read more...]
Nako - Village in the Himalayas - Kinnaur Himachal Pradesh India
Nako village is India's best kept secret! This dream like village from another time is located right next to the Tibetan border, above 3600 m above sea level altitude, in the Himalayan highlands of the Kinnaur district, Himachal Pradesh region. You might recall my latest Himalaya post, which is all about our recent road trip form Goa to the highest mountain range in … [Read more...]
Kinnaur Road - Himalayan Roadtrip
Our Kinnaur road trip was one of the pinnacle travel experiences in my life, especially because I am an avid traveler! In my post below I share my tips + experience in a guide and the 45 minute video and countless pretty pictures will help you to enjoy this ride safely! READ MORE + WATCH VIDEO about Kinnaur road conditions and how to get there - NH22 from Sarahan, … [Read more...]
Aloo Gobi Masala Curry (Potato Cauliflower)
Aloo Gobi Masala is quite a popular & filling vegetarian dish, not just in India, but recently globally as well. The vegetarian curry includes potato and cauliflower, making it a delicious spiced meal for any Indian food lover! I always make sure to include pure veg Indian dishes into my weekly menu plan. You can imagine the upside of eating … [Read more...]
3 min Tandoori Paste Recipe Sauce to Marinate
The homemade tandoori paste is a yogurt-based vegetarian sauce prepared with spices, which is used to marinate tandoori meals such as the tandoori chicken. This Indian aromatic paste is a time saver, and a few spoonfuls will turn your dinner into the tandoori dish from your favorite Indian restaurant! 📕 What's Tandoori? If you don't know tandoori, you will … [Read more...]
Salmon White Wine Sauce Pasta Recipe
You should make this salmon white wine sauce pasta recipe on a weeknight when you are craving something different but utterly delicious. This Pasta dish is quickly recreated in 30 minutes and best enjoyed, of course, with a glass of white wine or even rosé wine. My recent obsession has been, admittedly, this Pan-Fried Salmon in White Wine Sauce with … [Read more...]
High Altitude Reservoir Hohe Tauern - Kaprun Austria
The High Altitude Reservoir is located in the Hohe Tauern national reserve and is accessible from the world-famous ski sports town, Kaprun. Another excellent spot to visit is the Grossglockner high alpine road which is situated on the other side of the high altitude reservoir, but the same region of Salzburg. July 2014, Austria. Today I am taking you back 3 month … [Read more...]
Spicy Tomato Sauce Recipe for Pasta and Pizza
A Spicy Tomato Sauce Recipe to use as a Marinara Pizza topping or as a Pasta Sauce or even in baked Lasagna. Homemade and freshly prepared from scratch! A Spicy Tomato Sauce Recipe in all its glory. Yes, that's what we need, don't you think so? This is a revamped Italian style Tomato Marinara with spicy hot vibes. I add fresh chili peppers to pep up this … [Read more...]
Homemade Vanilla Sauce
Warm homemade vanilla sauce over a cake, Buchteln, or other delicious desserts is a must-have, and a homemade version is always a hit. Surprise your loved ones with this easy to make Vanilla Sauce with real Vanilla beans! … [Read more...]
Chicken with Mushroom White Wine Cream Sauce
📕 Take on Hunter's Schnitzel This recipe was inspired by one of our more traditional recipes in Austria, the hunter's schnitzel (Jägerschnitzel). This is a natural unbreaded schnitzel cooked in a creamy paprika mushroom sauce. Schnitzel in all its forms in Austria or Germany is always either pork or beef. So if it is to be compared to the Israeli schnitzel, which … [Read more...]
Sweet and Sour Papaya Sauce
Hello orange Season, welcome back! I have been seeing oranges lately, not in a bad way of course, no I am talking about the change of seasons and the time when orange-colored vegetables and fruits appear more frequently in the market. It might be Europe, the Americas or India, every September you'll notice warmer colored produce. While the old wives summer (also … [Read more...]
Mushroom Duxelles Pasta Sauce
More then a year ago I had introduced you to Mushroom Duxelles, a mixture of finely chopped Mushrooms shallots and herbs. Back then I had shared my stuffed Tomatoes a la Duxelles at Cafe Terra blog, so a recipe was never shared here at Masala Herb. Mushroom Duxelles is usually used for stuffing's and the most known dish stuffed with Duxelles is Beef Wellington. … [Read more...]
Austrian German English Food Translations
A couple of days ago, me and my Bavarian - German friends were sitting outside waiting for the electricity to come back. We ended up talking about food (what else right?) and then, of course, we started to compare the Tyrolean/Austrian dish traditions with the Bavarian/South German food habits and tried to compare and figure out some food translations. We didn't find … [Read more...]
Buchteln Recipe with Vanilla Sauce
Buchteln are sweet baked buns. This recipe is with a hazelnut filling and it's from Austria. 📕 What are Buchetln? Buchteln are sweet yeast rolls with a filling. These sweet Buns are stuffed with jam or sometimes even with other surprises such as Topfen (fresh cheese) or even nuts. You will find this traditional dish all around the alps in the heart of … [Read more...]
Austrian Jagertee Recipe
The alpine skiing slopes are famous all over the world. Why? Mostly because of the tipsy making hot beverages, such as the heart-warming Jagertee. 📕 What is a Jagertee? Jagertee, Jägertee or Jagatee means Hunter's tea and Jaga is the local Tyrolean (regional Austrian German) word for Jäger in German. My conclusion is that in the old times, Hunter's used … [Read more...]
Austrian Beef Goulash
In Europe, we have something like a spiced meat stew that has gained popularity with time all over the world. As the title suggests, I am speaking of the brown paprika loaded Goulash. Actually, the dish is typically Hungarian. Once upon a time, Hungary and Austria used to be one without borders. It is fair to say that Goulash has become an Austrian favorite … [Read more...]
Goan Sauteed Ridge Gourd Recipe
Luffa is a funny name for a Vegetable that is just so tasty! When I hear the word Luffa, I think of soap and a hot bath. In fact, my thinking isn't that wrong because this particular vegetable isn't just a wonderful food item but at the same time a very popular natural sponge since the beginning of time. However, the Luffa vegetables here in Goa/India are … [Read more...]
Schwarzsee - Kitzbühel surrounding - Tirol, Austria
Schwarzsee, also known as the Black Lake translated, is a serene spot in the midst of the Alps next to the luxurious alpine city, Kitzbühel. My parents and I had taken a relaxed Sunday off and went for a little walk nearby. We chose to take a stroll around Kitzbühel (Tirolean Alps, Austria). Kitzbühel is famous for its numerous ruff sports competitions, such as … [Read more...]