German Main Dishes

Onion tart or German Zwiebelkuchen

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010

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Recipe Ingredients for 3-4 servings
of onion tart or german Zwiebelkuchen:

for the dough:
250 g flour
100 ml milk

pinch of sugar
1 teasp. of salt

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20 g yeast
20 g sunflower oil

 



for the filling of the onion tart or Zwiebelkuchen:
500-600 g onions
200 ml cream
250 g curd cheese, light
1 teasp. ground caraway
3 teasp. salt
1-2 teasp. ground pepper
100 g grated gouda cheese
2-3 teasp. chopped parsley

 


This recipe is dedicated to Susan from thespicegarden.blogspot.com and everyone who likes german food!

This baking recipe is a variation of the typical german Zwiebelkuchen or onion tart. Once we had forgotten to buy ham Kristin just left it out.

Preparation of this traditional german onion tarte recipe:

1. Make a soft yeast dough out flour, milk, yeast, sugar, sunflower oil.

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Squash soup with coconut aka pumpkin soup

Friday, September 24th, 2010

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Ingredients for 3-4 servings of
this Squash soup with coconut aka
pumpkin soup recipe:

1 medium hokaido pumpkin
2 tbsp. dried lemongrass
1 l vegetable stock
150 ml coconut milk

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Preparation of Squash soup with coconut aka
pumpkin soup:

1. Split the hokaido pumpkin in half and extract the seeds.

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German Potato soup recipe with kohlrabi and wieners

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

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Ingredients for 3-4 servings for german
potato soup with kohlrabi and wieners:

5 waxy big potatoes
1 kohlrabi

1 l vegetable stock
2 small onions

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1 teasp. fresh chopped parsley
1 tbsp. grated gouda cheese
2 tbsp. olive oil

Preparation of this german potato soup with kohlrabi and wieners:

1. Cut the peeled onions in fine dices.

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Smoked pork chop with broad beans from Germany

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

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Ingredients for 3-4 servings:

6 slices of smoked pork chop (1kg)
enough milk

450 g broad beans, canned
about 3 tbsp. flour
1-2 teasp. dried savory
2 tbsp. butter

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Preparation:

1. Preheat the oven on 180 ° C.

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Baked Pork chops with cheese and peaches

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

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Baked pork chop with cheese and peaches
for 4-6 servings: 

Ingredients for baked pork chops:

350g ribbon noodles
200ml cream
2 tbsp. tomatoe puree
4 peaches, canned
6 pork cutlets
250 g gouda cheese


Baked pork chops with cheese and peaches 

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What is your favourite casserole? 

We would appreciate if  you would post the name of your favourite recipe in our comment section.


Fact Of the Week about Germany


Soccer in Germany:

A verry important sport for a majority of the german population is soccer.
The best soccer players in Germany play in the Fußball-Bundesliga.
The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league that consists of 18 teams.

 

Members of the Fußball-Bundesliga 2010/-11:
1. FC Kaiserslautern, 1.FC Köln, 1. FC Nürnberg, 1. FSV Mainz 05, Bayer 04
Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borrussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht
Frankfurt, FC Bayern München, FC Schalke 04, FC St. Pauli, Hamburger
SV, Hannover 96, SC Freiburg, SV Werder Bremen, TSG Hoffenheim, VfB
Stuttgart, VfL Wolfsburg


The 2. Fußball-Bundesliga is the second division of professional soccer in Germany.

Members of the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga 2009/-10:
Alemannia Aachen, Rot-Weiß Ahlen, FC Augsburg, Arminia Bielefeld, 1. FC Union Berlin, Energie Cottbus, MSV Duisburg, Fortuna Düsseldorf, FSV Frankfurt, SpVgg
Greuther Fürth, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Karlsruher
SC, TuS Koblenz, TSV 1860 München, SC Paderborn 07, FC St. Pauli , FC
Hansa Rostock

How to bake the pork chops or
Preparation of baked pork chops with cheese and peaches:

     

  1. Boil the ribbon noodles until they are al dente.
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White Asparagus soup

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

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Makes 5 to 6 servings of yummy white asparagus soup.

Ingredients for white asparagus soup:

2,5 l water from boiling asparagus
5 tbsp. butter
5 tbsp. flour

250 ml milk
1 white bun or bread
a half spring onion

White asparagus soup

German white asparagus soup

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You have boiled asparagus and don’t know what to do with the boiling water? Why not prepare a white asparagus soup?

We had our first white asparagus of the season on thursday.
How to cook asparagus:
In our household about 1 kg asparagus is boiled in 2,5 liter water that is druged with some sugar, butter and salt. This time we wanted to keep the aromatic boiling water as an ingredient and decided to make asparagus soup with it.
This broth is the ideal base for a creamy white asparagus soup e.g. with bread crumbs.

Foreword about white asparagus soup:
Do you like white asparagus? Do you also like white asparagus soup? Or have you ever prepared such a soup?

This year the asparagus season started in North Rhine-Westphalia on April 22th, 2010.
So we are quite late with our first asparagus but anyway not too late to get verry good asparagus for about 3 € per kilogramm on the daily
market in Bonn.

Fact Of The Week About Germany:
Asparagus Season in Germany:

The Asparagus Season in Germany begins every year dependent on the weather conditions round about the second half of april and is officially over on 24th of june.

Germany’s most known growing areas for asparagus are in
Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Brandenburg,
Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate.

A famous german recipe is white asparagus soup.

Preparation of white asparagus soup:

  1. Melt the butter in a big pot on medium heat.
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