What's in season in April in Germany and Austria? What fruits and vegetables can you get in April from local cultivation? And above all, what do I cook with them?
In this article, you'll find the most well-known fruits and vegetables from domestic cultivation that are in season in April, Germany and Austria and neighbour countries like hungary, slovakia, or czech republic.
Additionally, there are 30 suitable recipe ideas from Austrian and German cuisine.
The following fruits and vegetables are in season in Austria in April:
- Wild garlic
- Asparagus (end of April, depending on the weather)
- Spinach
- Rhubarb
- Radishes
- Rocket
- Potatoes
- Carrots
- Garlic
- Parsnips
- Mushrooms
- Leeks
- Beet
- Celery
- Lamb's lettuce
- Wild herbs: e.g. wild garlic, broadleaf plantain & ribwort plantain, nettle, dandelion, daisy, goutweed, garlic rocket, ground ivy, yarrow, chickweed
- Onion
This list is not exhaustive and may vary due to weather conditions! If you can think of any additional seasonal vegetables for April, I'd appreciate a comment on the blog post.
And here are seasonal recipe ideas, mostly from Austrian and German cuisine, for the month of April:
- Quick vegan wild garlic soup
- Dandelion pesto with pumpkin seed oil
- Bread dumplings with wild garlic instead of parsley
- Schupfnudeln with wild garlic pesto
- Radish spread like this one from A Veggie Venture
- 7 Herb soup like this one from Curious Cuisinière
- Spinach spaetzle with mushroom sauce using this easy spaetzle recipe
- Boiled beef with spinach and apple horseradish - and then item 9 with the leftovers 😉
- Beef salad with asparagus
- Roasted Potatoes with spinach and fried egg
- Oxymel with herbs like in this instruction the blog "Cultured Guru"- oxymel is a fermented mixture of apple cider vinegar and honey, which is very easy to make yourself, strengthens the immune system and can be used as a salad dressing, for example.
- Nettle salad
- Wild herb spinach with yarrow, dandelion and speedwell
- Curd cheese dumplings with butter crumbs and rhubarb compote
- Juicy rhubarb strudel like this one from food52
- Grandma's fluffy pancakes with apricot jam - because they're always in season 😉
- Vegetable stew with sausages and flour dumplings
- Simple braised beef with potatoes
- Traditional baked Schinkenfleckerl with lamb's lettuce salad
- Grandma's baked minced patties with mashed potatoes
- Kaiserschöberl (sponge cake rhombs) with vegetable soup
- Beet soup with horseradish
- Kipferlschmarrn (Brioche Croissant Schmarrn) with berry mix from the freezer
- Quick and healthy curd cheese casserole with berries
- Sheep's cheese with pumpkin seed oil and lamb's lettuce (or rocket)
- Quick and easy apple strudel with just a little sugar
- Schupfnudel pan with rocket
- Carrot and radish salad with baby spinach and pine nuts
- Austrian Cabbage Salad with Caraway Seeds
- Wholemeal Spelt Egg Dumplings (Eiernockerl)
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