Basically, all schnitzels are breaded and fried thin pieces of meat, but only wiener schnitzel is made with veal. Cooking term: Schnitzel is a cooking term used to describe any meat pounded thin, then breaded and fried.
cutlet [noun] a small slice of meat (mutton, veal, pork) on a rib or other bone. lamb cutlets. (Translation of Schnitzel from the PASSWORD German–English Dictionary © 2014 K Dictionaries Ltd)
If there's one schnitzel that's famous – it would be the Wienerschnitzel, which is from Austria. Traditionally, this dish is made out of veal and then is breaded by using breadcrumbs, and served with lemon juice.
But where did Vienna's namesake dish come from? The best-known legend is that a gourmand Austrian general discovered the Italian dish milanese ('Milanese veal cutlet') during a battle in the late 19th Century. Back in Vienna, he ordered his cooks to whip up their own version, and the Wiener schnitzel was born.
But have you ever stopped to wonder about the origins of the schnitzel? After all, it is not a distinctly Australian word. Yet, at some point, this golden crumbed delight leapt from European menus to Australian plates, so how did the humble schnitty become so popular in Oz?
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The schnitty, the slang name for the legendary chicken schnitzel, comes with a generous side of chips and a forest of salad. Just thinking of that butterflied chicken breast makes me want to step away for an early lunch. Aussies regularly order from a menu of slang foods.
What does Schnitty mean in Australia? Schnitty is Australian slang for schnitzel, usually referring to a chicken schnitzel served at a pub with a side of chips and gravy.
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Schnitzel is basically a cutlet – a thin piece of meat. It can be made from pork, veal, chicken, or turkey. It's very popular especially in Germany and Austria, but also in many neighboring countries. The most popular is breaded Schnitzel (coated in flour, eggs, and breadcrumbs) but it can also be unbreaded.
Because of course a Wienerschnitzel isn't a kind of hot dog — Wiener doesn't mean “hot dog;” it means “from Vienna” — it's a thin, breaded, fried cutlet traditionally made from veal.
Schnitzel or Escalope is a thinly pounded slice of meat, which is usually breaded and fried in fat. It is a popular dish in many countries, such as Germany, Austria, Poland, Italy or France. The original Wiener Schnitzel or Schnitzel Viennese is known around the world.
The Loaded Texan Schnitzel consists of a golden-crumbed chicken breast that is fried to crunch-perfection and topped with smoked bacon pieces and sliced spring onion, drizzled with a tangy combination of Texas BBQ sauce and creamy ranch dressing, and loaded with fluffy-crisp flat fries.
Etymology. From Schnitz (“cut-off piece”). Pertaining to schneiden (“to cut”). The culinary sense spread from Austria and was therefore adopted in the regional neuter gender.
The major differences between chikin katsu and the Western-style chicken cutlet (chicken schnitzel) are that, in the case of chikin katsu, you don't tenderise the chicken piece by pounding and flattening, you use panko breadcrumbs and you deep-fry instead of shallow-fry.
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Wiener schnitzel—an unassuming breaded, fried veal cutlet—has so captured Vienna's taste buds that it bears the city's very name (Wien = Vienna). Yet Austria's national dish may actually have originated in northern Italy as costoletta alla Milanese, a similarly prepared slice of veal.