Papet Vaudois is best described as a mash of leeks and potatoes that are stewed for hours. The result is an earthy, onion-tinged mixture that makes the perfect root bed for fat sausage, unique to the canton of Vaud (saucisson Vaudois). With deep roots in the canton, Papet Vaudois is akin to the region’s emblematic dish, and its notorious crimson sausage, loosely stuffed and plump, is not to be missed.

Raclette is a semi-hard cheese that is usually fashioned into a wheel of about 6 kg (13 lb). The Alpine cow milk-based dairy product is most commonly used for melting but is also consumed as a slice. Raclette also is a Swiss dish, also very popular in Savoie (France), based on heating the cheese and scraping off the melted part.

Vacherin is a cow's milk (French Vache, "cow") cheese. Two main types of French or Swiss Vacherin cheeses exist.

Malakoff is a ball of fried cheese typically found in Western Switzerland, more specifically in the villages of Eysins, Begnins, Bursins, Luins, and Vinzel on the shores of Lake Geneva. Malakoff's are sometimes served as an hors d'oeuvre.

Älplermagronen (also Älplermakkaronen) is the name of a dish from the Swiss Alps, consisting of pasta, potatoes, cream, cheese and onions. The name is made up of Alpine as a term for Sennen on the Alps and macaroni, which as a loan word from the Italian word macaroni was acquired.

A cordon bleu or schnitzel cordon bleu is a dish of meat wrapped around cheese (or with cheese filling), then breaded and pan-fried or deep-fried. Veal or pork cordon bleu is made of veal or pork pounded thin and wrapped around a slice of ham and a slice of cheese, breaded, and then pan-fried or baked. For chicken cordon bleu chicken breast is used instead of veal. Ham cordon bleu is ham stuffed with mushrooms and cheese.

Tirggel are traditional Christmas biscuits from Zürich, Switzerland. Made from flour and honey, they are thin, hard, and sweet.

Saffron Risotto is a common dish from Ticino, the southernmost canton of Switzerland.

Swiss cheese is the name of several related varieties of cheese that resemble Emmental cheese, a yellow, medium-hard cheese that originated in the area around Emmental, Switzerland. Some types of Swiss cheese have a distinctive appearance, as the blocks or rounds of the cheese are riddled with holes known as "eyes". Swiss cheese without eyes is known as "blind".

Bündner Nusstorte (Graubünden nut pastry), also known as Engadiner Nusstorte, is a traditional sweet, caramelized nut-filled pastry (generally walnut) from canton Graubünden in Switzerland. The modern filled Nusstorte was first widely available in the 1960s though it was invented in the 1920s.