![]() ![]() This is so that you can press out all the water from the grated potatoes. You will need a “potato sack” (flour sack) which you can get on Amazon.2-4 pounds of beef rump roast or beef brisket.1 bag of “Sauerbraten spice mix” (you can get it at Amazon, or if you want to make it from scratch: combine, 6 bay leaf’s, 2 tablespoons juniper berries, 2 tablespoons black pepper corns, 8 cloves, 4 tablespoon mustard seeds and 5 sprigs of thyme).But now on to this very unique recipe of Rheinischer Sauerbraten Its always nice to get out of the house and spend the day walking on the beach, playing with the dogs and enjoying the beach scenery. The last time I saw my parents was August 2019 when they visited us for 4th of July in Seattle and I had plans to go back to Germany for my mums birthday the following March but then Covid hit and since then no travels back to Germany.Īnd even though I am not traveling to Germany mainly because I don’t want to run the risk that I could infect my parents with Covid, we still travel from time to time to experience a little bit of “normality” and so for my birthday we packed our bags and the dogs for a short weekend getaway to one of our favorite places at the ocean in Long Beach. I will have to wait a few months before the entire family is vaccinated so that I can go back to Germany and can ask my mum to make me Sauerbraten – I could cook it myself but it just tastes better when mum makes it □ – my mouth is watering just writing down and sharing her recipe. At my home we always serve Sauerbraten with potato dumplings, a hearty gravy resulting from the roasted beef and marinade and a side dish of apple sauce – now it can’t get more German! I guess you can also use other types of meat, but I have only tried it with beef. The marinating process tenderizes the meat. Sauerbraten is a German Signature dish of a beef roast heavily marinated in a mixture of vinegar, water and spices. As you can see everything revolves around the river “Rhein” in my home state. And by the way, the Germans' favorite vegetable is not cabbage, it's white asparagus.Today is Valentines day and I am thinking of my parents in Germany and thought I post a very German recipe – “Rheinischer Sauerbraten” – from the region I was born in and lived for the majority of my “German live” – its called “Rheinland” The “Rheinland” (where the word “Rheinisch” derives from) is the area around the city Cologne where the river “Rhein” has its home and the state is called Nordrhein-Westfalen. Try some regional dishes like Königsberger Klopse (meatballs in a white sauce with capers), Rheinischer Sauerbraten (pot-roasted meat, most often beef that has marinated for several days), Maultaschen (filled dumplings) or Nordseekrabben (North Sea prawns). German cuisine is quite varied and, despite the cliche, can be surprisingly sophisticated. Lots of dishes contain beef or pork, and the most common side dish is potatoes.īut there are also significant regional differences: While the food in Bavaria tends to be very heavy, in the North, people eat a lot of fish, such as herring. ![]() That's because in the past, people needed calorie-rich foods to get them through the long, cold winters. ![]() Have you tried it?Ĭompared with other countries south of Germany, it is indeed heavy. Its reputation is often reduced to sausage and sauerkraut, the dish best known abroad. Do you like German food, or do you feel the same as Jacques? Like many people, he finds German food heavy, greasy, and meaty, and not very sophisticated. ![]()
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