Pot-au-Feu – Spatz

A One-Pot Meal from the Swiss Army

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Preparation info
  • Servings

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Simply Swiss: 64 Essential Recipes from the Heart of Europe

By Andie Pilot

Published 2025

  • About

The Swiss army has its share of iconic food items: from rations produced by some of Switzerland’s premier cookie and chocolate factories (like Kambly and Frey, respectively), to Militärkäseschnitte, a bread battered with cheese and deep-fried.

However, no other dish represents the Swiss army better than Pot-au-Feu/Spatz–so much so, that it features on the cover of the current standard-issue Swiss military cookbook, ladled into a Gamelle (a standard-issue army fo