January Meme: Favorite German Dishes

[selenak]

yhlee asked me about my favourite German dishes, which I hadn't written about before and thus am happily able to reply to in detail. Now, several of my faves wouldn't count as German (what with being Italian), but I do love products of our local cuisine as well. Here are a few of my all time favourites, with illustrations and thus hidden beneath a cut.



1.) Veal steak with morels in cream sauce and Spätzle (a sort of pasta) (Kalbssteak mit Rahmmorcheln und Spätzle)

Alas, those are not Spätzle in the picture, but to give you an idea:



Spätzle are these:



In combination with a tender veal and morel cream sauce, it's absolutely delicious, and I melt when I eat it.

A recipe for people who like to cook.

2) "Forelle Müllerin" or Trout a la meunière

Aka my favourite fish dish. One benefit of living near the Alps with lots of mountain streams is that there's no shortage of fresh trout. And my favourite way to prepare it results in this:



It usually gets served with boiled potatoes, and I have salt and pepper ready for those, but the trout doesn't need it.

A recipy for the cooking minded

3.) Flädle Suppe, or: German Pancake soup

Very good to eat in winter, which is why they serve it at most of the little skiing bistros, the "Almen" - it fulflls the double function of warming you and making you feel you've eaten a lot when you really haven't.



A recipe in English for a change


4.) Corn salad with grilled oyster mushrooms, aka Feldsalat mit gebratenen Austernpilzen

The perfect summer dish. Doesn't make you feel heavy, and is delicious. It tastes well with other grilled mushrooms, too, but this is my favourite combination.



Of course, there is a recipe


5.) Nürnberger Bratwürste mit Sauerkraut (Nuremberg Sausages with Sauerkraut)

Because I have to fulfill at least one cliché about Germans. Also I am from Franconia, and Bratwürste taste better in our province than anywhere else. The Nuremberg ones are the smallest edition available. You usually get six aat minimum when you order them at a restaurant. Sauerkraut needs their very spicy taste as a contrast, and vice versa. Sometimes you get mashed potatoes as well, but I'm fine with just the Sauerkraut.




A recipe for the Bratwurst curious!


The other days

Comments

[sylvaine]

Ohhhhh man 🤤🤤🤤 I really need to make Spätzle again on the weekend. And I immediately sent this post to Spouse all I WANT ALL OF THEEEEEEESE xD

[selenak]

:) My sinister scheme succeeded!

[trobadora]

I made Spätzle myself for the first time just recently! Knöpfle, though, not the long ones. And now I'm hungry again ... *g*

[selenak]

Congratulations to you - I never made them, as I can't cook beyond making spaghetti, and always ate them in restaurants or when someone else prepared them for me. *is impressed*

[taelle]

Tried Nurnbergers at Nuremberg, very nice indeed.

[selenak]

The perfect place to be introduced to them. <3

[yhlee]

Now I am hungry - thank you for this delicious post! :D

[selenak]

You're very welcome, and thank you for giving me another prompt!

[vilakins]

Yes to the first two when I lived in Frankfurt! Back here I've had both imported dried spaetzle and fresh that a friend made. I don't like sausages but Greg gets the bratwurst and sauerkraut at our local German cafe. I might ask them about making the eierkuchensuppe as they always serve soup and I'd love to try that one.

Trout can't be bought in this country - you must catch it yourself with a special licence. I don't know why - there are plenty of salmon in the rivers and they're freely available to be fished or bought.

[selenak]

Huh, that explains why when I was in New Zealand a couple of years ago, trout was never on the menu. Maybe they don't fare so well in your rivers for some mysterious reasons?

[vilakins]

Trout are plentiful in our rivers, but they're not allowed to be farmed. In my opinion it's basically elitism.

[rachelmanija]

I've never had any of these and they all look delicious. I might be able to recreate the corn salad and sausages with sauerkraut.

[selenak]

Enjoy!

[avrelia]

it all sounds and looks so delicious!

[selenak]

It is, I promise.

[redfiona99]

I see there's the usual Austrian/German divide on Frittatensuppe. Which I now want to some ridiculous extent.

[selenak]

:) Like Oscar Wilde said about Brits and Americans, we share everything but the language...

[neotoma]

Oh, that veal dish looks delicious! I love mushrooms in cream and over veal, beef, or venison, they are so tasty!

Also, I think I might want to try that pancake soup -- I think I'd have to make the broth from scratch, since celeriac doesn't usually go into broth in the USA.

[selenak]

Have fun! It does taste great, I promise.

[scintilla10]

Now I'm hungry. ;) Especially love the idea of grilled oyster mushroom salad - wow!

[selenak]

It's really good, I swear.

[queenbookwench]

I’m both hungry and nostalgic—I developed a love of German food during the 3 years my family spent as expats in Wurzburg when I was a tween. I need to get some Spaztle again!

[selenak]

They're always worth having. :)

[cahn]

Oh that looks amaaaaazing, I want all of these now. So, do you eat the trout skin as well? :D /did not grow up around trout, not sure how to eat it

[selenak]

You can eat the skin if it's Forelle Müllerin, though not everyone does. In other variations of trout, like baked or blue, it doesn't get eaten at all.

[tree_and_leaf]

Mm, spätzle! And Nürnbergers.

I wonder if "corn salad" is a US term? It's called lamb's lettuce in the UK.

[selenak]

I wouldn't know, I had to look the translation up in a dictionary which didn't say. It's Feldsalat or Rapunzelsalat in German - Rapunzel as in the fairy tale, it's the salad which the wife asks her husband to steal from the sorceress' garden at the start of the story.