Top 10 German foods – with recipes

EACH REGION OF GERMANY HAS ITS OWN SPECIALITY DISH AND VARIATIONS OF

TYPICAL GERMAN CUISINE. HERE ARE OUR TOP 10 TRADITIONAL GERMAN FOODS TO TRY, DO-IT-YOURSELF RECIPES INCLUDED.

German food is rich, substantial and delicious, with each region having its own speciality dishes and traditional cuisine. And what better way to explore German culture than creating your own German specialties? That’s why we have searched far and wide for the best German recipes – both athentic and with a twist. Guten Appetit!
Apfelstrudel
Apfelstrudel (apple strudel) is a delicious pastry filled with apples flavoured with sugar, cinnamon, raisins and breadcrumbs – and has been popular since the 18th century. The delicate flakey pastry is made from an elastic dough, which is kneaded and stretched until it’s as thin as phyllo pastry. The pastry is wrapped round and round the filling building up many layers, and then baked. It’s served warm in slices sprinkled with powdered or icing sugar.

Make your own:

• German apfelstrudel rezept from the imperial Schönbrunn bakery.
• Cheat with filo pastry.
• Quick apple and pecan strudel with cinnamon.

Eintopf
A steaming bowl of eintopf will warm you up on a cold day. The name of this traditional German stew literally means ‘one pot’ and refers to the way of cooking rather than a specific recipe. However, most recipes contain the same basic ingredients: a broth, some vegetables, potatoes or pulses and then some meat (commonly pork, beef or chicken) or sometimes fish. There are regional specialities, for example, lumpen und fleeh (which means ‘rags and fleas’) in the Kassel area, which is similar to Irish stew.

Make your own:

• Grünkohleintopf – kale with smoked meat and sausages.
• Warming bean and pork eintopf.
• A veggie option (in German).

Kasespatzle 
Spatzle, noodles made from wheat flour and egg, are popular especially in the South. They’re often served topped with cheese (kasepatzle) – rather like macaroni cheese – and sometimes with roasted onions as well. They can be served boiling hot, straight from the pan – so be careful!

Make your own:

• Top-rated German language rezept.
• Classic kasespatzle recipe with loads of great reviews;
• …or a version with pictures for instruction and inspiration.

Kartoffelpuffer
These are shallow pan-fried pancakes made from grated or ground potatoes mixed with flour, egg, onion and seasoning. You can enjoy them either salty as a side dish to a main course of meat or fish, or sweet with apple sauce, blueberries, sugar and cinnamon. Look out for them in outdoor markets in the winter.

Make your own:

• Three German recipes for sweet and savoury potato pancakes.
• Bavarian kitchen recipe.
• Watch kartoffelpuffer being made.

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Rote grutze
This red fruit pudding is a popular dessert in the North. It’s made from black and red currants, raspberries and sometimes strawberries or cherries, which are cooked in their juice and thickened with a little cornstarch or cornflour. It’s served with cream, vanilla sauce or milk.

Make your own:

• Step-by-step illustrated German recipe;
• …traditionally served with a vanilla custard sauce.
• Quick and simple rote grütze recipe.

Sauerbraten

Germans love their meat – and sauerbraten (meaning ‘sour’ or ‘pickled’ roast) is a pot roast that’s regarded as one of the country’s national dishes. It can be made from many different meats (originally horse), which are marinated in wine, vinegar, spices, herbs and seasoning for up to 10 days.Schweinenbraten is a delicious roast pork dish, usually served with braised cabbage or sauerkraut and dumplings (knoedel), and washed down with a pilsner beer.

Make your own:

• Rheinischer sauerbraten recipe.
• A family recipe for a favourite dish.
• Cook in a crockpot.

Brezel
Brezel are soft, white pretzels, made from flour water and yeast and sprinkled with salt (and sometimes different seeds), and great to eat as a side dish or snack – or with a beer. They’re in every bakery and on street stands, sold plain, sliced and buttered (butterbrezel) or with slices of cold meats or cheese.

Make your own:

• Top-rated brezel recept in German.
• Pretzel recipe with 5 star reviews.
• Laugenbrezel: traditional German pretzels.

Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte
You’ll find lots of cakes and tarts to tempt you in Germany, commonly made with fresh fruit. Few can resist a huge slice or two of the most famous of them all: the deliciousschwarzwalder kirschtorte – Black Forest cherry cake. The cake is named afterschwarzwalder kirschwasser, which is a liqueur distilled from tart cherries. Alternating layers of rich chocolate cake, cherries and whipped cream are topped off with more cream, maraschino cherries and chocolate shavings.

Make your own:

• A German recipe from the Black Forest.
• Classic Black Forest gateau recipe;
• …with extra cream.
• The cupcake version.

Schnitzel
A schnitzel is a thin, boneless cutlet of meat, which is coated in breadcrumbs and often served with a slice of lemon. You can choose a Wiener Schnitzel, which is made of veal, or a schnitzel Wiener made of pork. If you order a Hamburg-styleschnitzel, it will arrive with a fried egg on top;  while a Holsten-style schnitzel will come with an egg, anchovies and capers.

Make your own:

• All star German-language recipe for Wiener Schnitzel;
• …and another in English.
• If you don’t fancy veal, try chicken schnitzel;
• … or lemon and thyme pork schnitzel with potato salad.

Wurst
There are more than 1500 different types of wurst (sausage) made in Germany and you’ll find street stalls selling them everywhere. The most popular include bratwurst (fried sausage) made of ground pork and spices, Wiener (Viennese), which is smoked and then boiled, and blutwurst and schwarzwurst, which are both blood sausages. Look out for regional specialities like Berlin’s currywurst (sausage with curried ketchup on the top), Bavaria’s weisswurst, a white sausage that you peel before eating with a sweet mustard, and Nuremberg’s grilled rostbratwurst, served with fermented shredded cabbage known assauerkraut.

Make your own:

• Simple recipe for wurst with sauerkraut, in German.
• Currywurst sauce – as made by Schnell-Imbisse (fast food stalls).
• German sausage and new potato salad.
• Martha Stewart’s beer-braised bratwurst with cabbage