Traditional Bavarian cuisine has delicious and hearty dishes. Even salads do not serve in it as an appetizer, but are served separately or as a side dish for meat. This can be explained by the fact that they are very nutritious. They include meat products, cheese and fresh vegetables. Traditionally, the Bavarian salad contains sausages or German sausages, pickles, cheese and herbs. You can add other vegetables, such as tomatoes or your favorite German cabbage. There is another version of the classic "Bavarian" salad - potato. This is also a very hearty and tasty dish.
Features of Bavarian salads
All contain meat products. Most often these are sausages, smoked sausage or brisket. But such salads are also common with chicken. Salad "Bavarian" differs in fragrant and moderately sharp seasonings. Most often it is vinegar, mustard, black pepper and herbs. Dressed mainly with special sauce, which is prepared separately. But there are options with mayonnaise, sour cream or with olive oil. The ingredients of Bavarian salads are most often cut into strips. But you can cut them into cubes, and small gherkins are sometimes put whole.
If you put the salad in the refrigerator for half an hour, it will be saturated with dressing and will become even tastier. To serve on the festive table, the components of such a dish can not be mixed, but lay in layers, for example, on a lettuce leaf. Garnish with a sprig of dill, olives or corn.
Salad with sausages
There are several options for this dish. But they all contain the required ingredients and are prepared the same way.
- Traditionally, Bavarian salad may include pickled or fresh cucumbers, tomatoes or cabbage.
- A must-have ingredient is sausages. The classic Bavarian salad contains Vienna sausages or German sausages. They are boiled or added raw. But you can take any smoked sausage, ham or sausages.
- The third essential ingredient in a traditional salad is hard cheese. Emmental is best, as it gives the dish an unusual fruity-nutty flavor. But you can take any variety, even processed.
- And the last ingredient is red sweet onion, cut into rings.
It is easy to prepare such a dish: all the ingredients are cut into strips or cubes and mixed. But in order for the salad to comply with the traditions, you need to properly fill it. There are several options for dressing other than mayonnaise and sour cream:
- mix a few tablespoons of brine from gherkins, vegetable oil, better from pumpkin seeds or olive, and white wine vinegar, add black ground pepper and salt to the mixture;
- an unusual sauce is made with beer and honey: for 100 ml of olive oil you need half a glass of meat broth, half a glass of vinegar, 3 tablespoons of beer, a teaspoon of honey and marjoram, caraway seeds, ground pepper and salt.
Bavarian Chicken Salad
In addition to sausages, traditional German dishes often use white lean meat. It is tender, but nutritious. It is also part of the Bavarian salads.
1. A classic salad with beans and mushrooms - quite satisfying and has an unusual taste. Cooking it is very simple: mix everything and season with mayonnaise. What is included in its composition? Smoked chicken breast, canned beans, pickled mushrooms, onions and herbs. Salt and pepper are added to taste.
2. Tasty and nutritious is the Bavarian salad with chicken and crackers. Cooking it quickly and simply: cut smoked chicken, tomatoes and hard cheese into cubes and mix, season with mayonnaise and grated garlic and pepper. Before serving, add crackers made of white bread, dried with paprika and salt.
Bavarian Potato Salad
The recipe for this traditional dish can also have different options. In Bavaria, they love potato salad: it is eaten cold or hot, separately from everything or as a side dish. The basis of such a dish is boiled potatoes. You can add any products to it: cucumbers, meat, eggs or greens.
Very tasty potato salad "Bavarian" with salami. To cook it, you need to mix finely chopped boiled potatoes, salami (or any half-smoked sausage), pickles and red onions. Sprinkle with chopped dill and season with sauce: olive oil, mustard, salt and pepper.
A hearty and tasty dish is obtained if the jacket boiled potatoes are mixed with fried smoked sausage, onions, sautéed with broth, sugar, vinegar and mustard, pickled cucumbers and herbs. This salad can be served both cold and hot.