German side dishes: Which can you add to your Easter dinner meal?

 German Side Dishes

Easter is almost here...Besides cooking your traditional Easter dinner with all the trimmings, maybe you can add a German side dish this year to show off all you have been learning by following this blog!!  If not, try adding a German side dish to the meal you are cooking tonight!  Guten Appetit!

Common Side Dishes in Germany:

Spatzle served plain with butter

• Spatzle-German egg noodles made with eggs, flour and salt.  A spatzle press is needed to make the noodles the correct shape.  Typically served plain with butter or with the same sauce as the main course has.   

 

• Kaese Spatzle-translates to cheese noodles.  This is a variation of the traditional spatzle.  This dish is topped with crispy fried onions and melted over with cheese.

Bratkartoffeln with bacon, onion and parsley.

• Bratkartoffeln-translates to German home fried potatoes.  Traditionally made by slicing potatoes and pan frying them, adding bacon and onion.

  

Knodel topped with pork gravy.

• Knodel-translates to dumpling in German.  There are bread dumplings made of bread and potato dumplings made of potato.  Dumplings can be topped with the same sauce as the main course has.

• Kartoffelsalat-translates to German potato salad.  Unlike the traditional American version, mayonnaise is not used.  Germans use an oil and vinegar dressing instead.

• Fleischsalat-translates to a German bologna salad in a mustard mayonnaise dressing.

Rotkohl served on a side plate.

• Rotkohl-translates to red cabbage.  German red cabbage is often a sweet and tart flavor because of the vinegar, sugar and spices used to flavor it.

• Sauerkraut-German sauerkraut has a sweet sour flavor because many recipes add applesauce. 



German sausage and pork chop on sauerkraut.

• Other helpful hints in case you need to order french fries in German, they are called pommes frites.  A potato is called a kartoffel.   

Happy Cooking and Eating!!