🍎 Birchermüesli (Swiss apple muesli)

Name: Birchermüesli (Swiss apple muesli)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Switzerland · Zurich
Ingredients: 60 g rolled oats; 100 ml water; 2 apples, coarsely grated with the skin; Juice of 1/2 lemon; 150 g plain yogurt; 2 tsp honey; 20 g hazelnuts, chopped; 100 g berries

Origin: Switzerland · Zurich

325kcal

per serving · 250 g

130kcal

per 100 g

10 gProtein4 g / 100 g

10 gFat4 g / 100 g

48 gCarbs19 g / 100 g

Birchermüesli, as it is spelled in Switzerland, is a fresh mix of oats, plain yogurt and plenty of grated apple tossed with lemon juice, sweetened lightly with honey and topped with nuts and berries. The apple is the star: juicy and crisp, kept bright by the lemon. It is made shortly before eating, needs no cooking and is served cool for breakfast or a light supper.

Diets

✓

Vegetarianno meat or fish in a typical recipe

✓

No pork

Not veganbecause of: yogurt, honey

Contains glutenbecause of: oats

Contains dairybecause of: yogurt

Not keto19 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Milk ⚠ Tree nuts

What it is made of

oatsyogurtapplelemonhoneynutsberries

Recipe

2 servings20 min

Ingredients

60 g rolled oats
100 ml water
2 apples, coarsely grated with the skin
Juice of 1/2 lemon
150 g plain yogurt
2 tsp honey
20 g hazelnuts, chopped
100 g berries

Method

Soak the oats in the water for 15 minutes until softened.
Grate the apples straight into the lemon juice and toss so they do not brown.
Stir the apple, yogurt and honey into the oats.
Spoon into bowls, top with berries and hazelnuts and eat right away.

How to make it lighter

Keep the apple-to-oats ratio high: more fruit means more volume for fewer calories.
Measure the nuts — 10 g per bowl gives flavour without much extra fat.
Lemon juice brightens the taste, so the honey can be reduced to 1 tsp or left out.

History

Bircher muesli was created around 1900 by the Swiss physician Maximilian Bircher-Benner, who served it to patients at his Zurich sanatorium. The story goes that he was inspired by a dish of raw apple and oats he was offered on a hike in the Swiss Alps. It became a Swiss breakfast staple and is now eaten worldwide.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →