Austrian Liptauer Cheese Recipe
The Austrian Liptauer is made with thick cottage cheese, paprika, and other seasoning ingredients. It's served as a dip or can be used as a bread spread.
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 80kcal
Equipment
- Small Mixing Bowl
- 8" Chef Knife
Ingredients
Liptauer Cheese
- ½ cup Fresh Cottage Cheese *See Notes
- 2 Tablespoons Butter soft
- 1 Tablespoon Onion chopped
- 1 Garlic Clove chopped
- 1 Teaspoon Dijon Mustard secret ingredient
- 1 ½ Teaspoon Paprika Powder sweet variety or smoked
- ¼ Teaspoon Caraway Seeds Whole it's a main ingredient!
- ¼ Teaspoon Salt
- Black Pepper Ground pinch
Garnish Ideas
- Bell Pepper sliced or diced small
- Pickles chopped
- Capers
- Pink Radish slices
Instructions
- Grab a bowl and add the soft butter together with the quark and mix well. See that no bits are left, and the mixture is smooth. I like to use a fork for that.½ cup Fresh Cottage Cheese, 2 Tablespoons Butter
- Chop garlic and onion fine, add them to the quark/butter mix.1 Tablespoon Onion, 1 Garlic Clove
- Toss in the Dijon mustard, paprika powder, caraway seeds, salt, and ground pepper.1 Teaspoon Dijon Mustard, 1 ½ Teaspoon Paprika Powder, ¼ Teaspoon Caraway Seeds Whole, ¼ Teaspoon Salt, Black Pepper Ground
- Garnish with chopped bell pepper or pickled cucumbers or capers or pink radish slices.Bell Pepper, Pickles, Pink Radish, Capers
Notes
- ½ cup cottage cheese is about 4 ounces or 110 grams.
- Use a cottage cheese rich in fats for the best results, avoid low-fat cottage cheese! If you can get cottage cheese from a farmer's market, that would be the best option. If you can get 20% fat fresh cottage cheese, such as the Slovakian bryndza sheep cheese, that would be the most suitable choice. Of course, these are hard to get by, so 4% to 6% cottage cheese will have to do. If your cottage contains liquids, strain it with a cheese cloth. In Austria, we use Topfen or, in Germany, Quark.
- You can also use Mascarpone or other flavorless plain cream cheese.
- In Eastern Europe, sheep cream cheese is still very common, and it lends the Liptauer a certain special flavor.
Nutrition
Calories: 80kcal | Carbohydrates: 2g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 19mg | Sodium: 301mg | Potassium: 43mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 580IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 21mg | Iron: 0.2mg
