German Spekulatius Mandarine Dessert
A perfect German Christmas menu ends with a dessert that is including holiday spices, and which will end the menu perfectly. One of such desserts is the German Spekulatius Mandarine Dessert. The spiced cookies are available at Aldi, German specialty stores or Cost Plus Market. You also need quark for making the cream. If you have a shop nearby that sells quark, you are lucky. if not you can make it from scratch (see link below). Happy Cooking!
Ingredients German Spekulatius Mandarine Dessert
(3 servings in small glasses or 2 for bigger glasses)
250 g quark – How to Make Quark –
200 ml heavy cream
some milk
2 packages vanilla sugar- 0.6oz
50 g sugar (or to taste)
1 small can mandarine oranges, unsweetened – keep some for decoration
8 Spekulatius cookies
cinnamon to taste
Cooking Instructions
– Beat heavy cream until firm.
– Combine quark with milk, vanilla sugar, cinnamon and regular sugar, mix well.
– Add the heavy cream, mix.
– Crumble the Spekulatius cookies: Use a freezing plastic bag, place cookies inside and crumble with a rolling pin.
– Layer the cream alternating with crumbles and mandarines into dessert glasses.
– Place one mandarine orange on top of each glass.
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German Old Fashioned Beef Stew
Try this German Old Fashioned Beef Stew and you will be surprised how tasty it is. It is spiced with some exotic spices but this makes the difference to all other stew recipes. For sure this stew makes a great family dinner, or make it for festive occasions and Sunday lunches. The recipe is from the medieval times, around 1300, from Viandier de Taillevent, a recipe collection from the Middle Ages. Taillevent was a master cook to Charles V, which gave him extensive experience in serving French nobility. In German we would call it “mittelalterlicher Rindseintopf oder Gulasch”. Happy Cooking!
Ingredients German Old Fashioned Beef Stew
1 kg beef stew
100 g Speck (german bacon)
2 onions
1 garlic clove
½ liter red wine (fruity note)
3 cloves
2 tbsp lemon juice
3 carrots
1 tsp of each ginger, ground and cinnamon, ground
1 dash cardamom
salt, pepper to taste
some beef broth if needed
Cooking Instructions German Old Fashioned Beef Stew
– Cut Speck into very small cubes, place in a non-stick pan and on lower heat fry so all grease will be liquid.
– Peel onions, garlic, chop fine, add to the bacon. Fry until onions are transparent.
– Slice or cut carrots into smaller pieces.
– Add the meat that you need to cut into cubes if it is not already cut.
– Brown the meat on high heat evenly.
– Spice with salt and pepper to taste.
– Place cloves in a small sachet, add with wine to the meat.
– 30 min before cooking time has ended add the carrots.
– Cover with a lid and let simmer for about 90 min (depends on the meat quality).
– Add lemon juice and spice with the remaining spices.
If the fond should be too thick add some beef broth and bring to a brief boil.
Serve with red cabbage, ribbon pasta, Kroketten, mashed potatoes, dumplings or Spätzle.
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Halloween Recipe Big Foot Feet
One of our favorite recipes: the Halloween recipe Big Foot Feet! It looks scary and funny! You don’t have to be an artist to make these feet. Perfect Halloween party food – your guests will love it! Happy Halloween!
Ingredients Halloween Recipe Big Foot Feet
makes 1 foot
1 kg ground beef, turkey or chicken
2 onions
1 egg
4 garlic cloves
bread crumbs natural, no salt or herbs
salt, black pepper, Hungarian paprika powder (mild or hot) to taste
1 tbsp instant broth
2 tbsp ketchup
chili sauce or red edible color
Cooking Instructions Halloween Recipe Big Foot Feet
– Cut onion in half and cut from each half a 1 cm thick slice – this is the bone on top of the foot.
– From the outer layer of the onion cut toe nails.
– Chop the remaining onion in small cubes, garlic cloves as well.
– Mix ground meat with egg, spices and ketchup.
– On a sheet of baking paper create 2 feet out of the meat.
– Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees C or 350 F.
– Add chili sauce on top (cut off part of the foot) so it looks like blood, place 1 onion slice on top.
– Cut the onion in small pieces and place them as nails on top of the toes.
– Cook the feet for 30 minutes – 10 minutes before the end, add some more chili sauce on the top of the foot.
Enjoy your feet warm or cold with baguette bread, potato salad, french fries or pasta with tomato sauce or mustard. These feet taste cold as good as hot!
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German Stuffed Peppers or Filled Pepper with Meat
German stuffed peppers are filled with meat and are called in German “Gefüllte Paprika”. This German dish is easy to make and can be varied. If you don’t like to use meat fill the peppers with a rice-vegetable mix. You can also use ground Bison meat or a mix of pork and beef. Happy Cooking!
Ingredients German Stuffed Peppers
4 green medium size peppers (or red, yellow, orange peppers)
1/2 lb ground meat
1 cup of long grain rice
1 med size onion
2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
1-2 tsp clarified butter
salt, pepper to taste
ground nutmeg, 1 dash
1 tsp sweet paprika powder
Tomato Sauce
2-3 tbsp tomato paste, water
1 can diced tomatoes or 5 fresh tomatoes (or use all natural Italian style tomato sauce)
1/2 cube vegetable broth, instant
salt, black pepper, dried oregano, thyme to taste
or 1 jar ready made tomato sauce
(Note: If you use ready made tomato sauce you won’t use the spices)
Cooking Instructions German Stuffed Peppers
– Cut off the upper part of the pepper (the lid); remove white parts and seeds inside the pepper with a sharp knife or a spoon.
– Chop onions fine; in a pan heat butter and saute onions until transparent.
– Add the meat and brown it briefly. Remove from heat.
– Combine meat with rice and mix it well.
– Spice with salt, pepper, nutmeg, and red paprika powder, and parsley. Mix well.
– With a spoon fill meat-rice mix into each pepper until it is filled.
– In a heavy sauce pan fill in the tomato sauce or chopped fresh, or diced tomatoes.
– Add herbs, spices and bring to a boil.
– Remove from heat.
– Place the filled peppers into the pot with the tomato sauce (the pan should be big enough so peppers will stand straight inside).
Important: Before you fill the peppers place them into the pot to see if it is the right size.
– On very low heat let peppers simmer for 15-30 minutes depending on the size of the pepper (needs to be covered with a lid). The rice is uncooked so it needs to cook until it is soft. They are done when they won’t show their fresh green color.
– 10 minutes before the peppers are done, place the lids on top of each pepper.
Serve them with mashed potatoes, boiled potatoes, or your favorite pasta.
TIPS
– You can add zucchini, carrots, peas or leek to the tomato sauce.
– For the vegetarian version, mix rice with chopped carrots, peas and mushrooms, fill the peppers and let simmer covered the same way as described above in the recipe.
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Arme Ritter – German Breakfast Casserole
The German French Toast, or “Arme Ritter” in German, is a traditional dish that can be traced back to the Romans. In the antique cooking book De re coquinariayou can find this recipe:
„Zerbrich abgeriebene Siligenen (= Winterweizengebäcke), mache größere Häppchen, tauche sie in Milch, röste sie in Öl, übergieße sie mit Honig und serviere sie.“ (Break winter-wheat bread, make bigger pieces, dip in milk, roast in oil, pour over with honey and serve.)
The oldest German recipe was found in the 14th century in the book “guter spyse” (good food) that is quoted in the German dictionary of the Grimm brothers with: „snit denne aht snitten arme ritter und backe die in smalze niht zu trüge.“
In a German cook book from 1691 the German French Toast is called “Gueldene Schnitten” which means golden slices.
In England they are called Poor Knights of Windsor, in USA French Toast, in France pain perdu, and in Spain torrijas. Arme Ritter is great for the brunch, breakfast or as a sweet dish only.
This recipe is using vanilla pudding and it is baked in the oven as a casserole (Auflauf in German) which is not the original recipe. Please keep this in mind.
Find the original recipe here: Arme Ritter Recipe – plain and simple – Happy Cooking!
Ingredients Arme Ritter – German Breakfast Casserole
(serves 4)
1 jar sour cherries
1/2 package Dr. Oetker Vanilla pudding (0.75 oz) or cornstarch and vanilla extract
3 eggs, medium
1 package vanilla sugar, 0.5 oz
-How to make Vanilla Sugar –
dash salt, powdered sugar for dusting
450 ml milk
3 tbsp sugar
8 thicker slices of wheat toast (white)
25 g almonds, sliced
Cooking Instructions
– Drain cherries, keep the juice.
– Mix pudding powder with 5 tbsp juice, mix until smooth.
– Bring remaining juice to a boil and add the pudding powder.
– Let simmer for 1 minute, than add the cherries and let cool off a bit.
– Mix eggs, 200 ml milk, sugar and salt. Beat them thoroughly.
– Cut bread slices diagonal and turn them briefly in the eggs.
– Place the bread slices and cherry compote into a fire proof form in layers.
– Pre-heat oven to 200 C or 350 F.
– Finally add remaining eggs to the form.
– Bake for 15-20 minutes (cover with foil the last minutes if it should get too brown).
– Roast almonds in a non-stick pan without any grease.
Sprinkle the German French Toast with roasted almonds before serving.
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German Potato Goulash – Kartoffelgulasch
Here’s another yummy German dish that is quite popular: You will love the German Potato Goulash dish. It doesn’t contain beef but sausages and potatoes. This Eintopf or stew is spiced with paprika, marjoram and caraway seeds, and can be served with some fresh bread. It’s very easy to make. Happy Cooking!
Ingredients German Potato Goulash
(serves 4)
6 bigger potatoes
75 g Speck (bacon)
1 tbsp lard or sunflower/canola oil
2 smaller onions
1/2 green or red pepper
2 tbsp tomato paste
salt to taste
1 tbsp mild paprika seasoning
marjoram, caraway seeds to taste
1/2 l beef or vegetable broth
– How to make Beef Broth –
1 German pickle – optional
2 tbsp sour cream
3 sausages (Frankfurter, Wiener sausage)
Cooking Instructions German Potato Goulash
– Peel potatoes and onions. Chop onions fine, Cut potatoes in smaller cubes.
– Heat lard/oil in a pan, add onions, saute for 1-2 min, then add potatoes. Reduce heat to medium.
– Fry for about 5 min.
– Add tomato paste, mix well.
– Spice with salt, pepper, paprika, marjoram and caraway seeds.
– Add the broth.
– On low heat let simmer covered for 10-15 min.
– Cut pepper in half, remove seeds, cut in cubes. Add to the goulash.
– If you like add the chopped pickle as well.
– Cook for another 10 min.
– Add the sour cream, cut sausages in slices and add to the Goulash.
Serve in 2-3 minutes when sausages are warm.
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Poached Eggs in Mustard Sauce – Verlorene Eier
This German egg dish – Poached eggs in Mustard Sauce – is coming from the good old times when meat was rare or too expensive. It’s a recipe from grandmothers cooking book and what do you know, it’s still popular. It’s called in German “Verlorene Eier” because the eggs have lost their shell. Some call this dish also “Saure Eier” because you use vinegar.
It used to be a very popular dish in East Germany. It’s a good combination, the poached eggs and the mustard sauce, rounded up with boiled potatoes (we recommend Gold potatoes). Happy Cooking!
Ingredients Poached Eggs in Mustard Sauce
1 small onion
40 g butter
40 g flour
500 ml water
3 tbsp German mustard
– All About German Mustard – How to Use it in Cooking –
1 tsp lemon juice
4 fresh eggs
1 liter water
4 tbsp white wine vinegar
salt, pepper to taste
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Cooking Instructions Poached Eggs in Mustard Sauce
– Chop onion fine.
– Melt butter, saute onion until transparent.
– Add flour, mix very well until you get a slightly yellowish substance. Then add 500ml cold water.
– Bring while mixing to a boil.
– Add mustard and lemon juice, spice with salt and pepper to taste.
– Bring 1 liter water to a boil, add vinegar and 1 tsp salt.
– Crack one egg in a cup.
– Very carefully let the egg slide into the boiling water. Repeat with each egg.
– Reduce heat, and let simmer for 5 min.
– Remove eggs with a slotted spoon and place on a plate.
Serve the poached eggs with the mustard sauce and boiled potatoes.
TIPS
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German Fried Potatoes Berlin Style
This is a recipe for German Fried Potatoes Berlin Style or “Bratkartoffeln Berliner Art” as they make it in the capital of Germany, Berlin. Recommended are potatoes such as the yellow Gold or red potatoes, Russet are cooking too soft and fall apart. Serve with your favorite sausages or Frikadellen (German Burgers). Happy Cooking!
Ingredients German Fried Potatoes
(serves 4-5)
2,5 kg potatoes
1 small-medium sized onion (chopped)
5-7 thicker cut slices of bacon (Speck) and cut in small cubes
salt, pepper, red sweet paprika powder (optional)
butter or clarified butter for frying
Cooking Instructions German Fried Potatoes
– Melt butter in a non-stick skillet.
– Fry chopped onions and cubed bacon until they are light brown.
– Peel potatoes, cut in halves and then in thin slices.
– Add potatoes to onions and bacon and fry them on medium-low heat for about 30 minutes. Turn potatoes as needed. Make sure there is enough grease in the pan. Add more if needed.
– Spice with salt and pepper to taste.
Tip:
If you like the potatoes crunchy dust or turn the potato slices before frying in a bowl with flour; then fry them.
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