HOW TO COOK PICHELSTEINER

How To Cook Pichelsteiner  –this dish is very popular in Germany but many countries with decent numbers of German minorities are aware of this. Pichelsteiner is an Aryan version of beef stew or sometimes not just beef but also combined with pork. Like many other stews, this dish is also cooked and served along with vegetables. Papaya, potatoes and carrots are commonly used in this dish but you can use your favorite vegetables as long as you don’t ruin the taste. In this recipe I am going to share with you, greenpeas, parsley, celery root, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots and greenpeas are used. Here is how to cook Pichelsteiner:

Ingredients

4 tbsp olive oil

½ kilo beef (cut into cubes)

1 large size onion (chopped)

1 tomato (diced)

1 cup beef stock

1 tbsp celery root (chopped)

2 tbsp parsley (chopped)

1 tsp paprika

½ tsp salt

½ tsp pepper (freshly ground)

2 cups potatoes (cut into cubes)

1 cup green peas (cooked)

3 medium size carrots (cut into cubes)

2 tbsp chives (snipped)

Cooking Procedure

1. In a pot, boil water. Drop the beef and simmer until cooked.
2. Remove the beef from the pot, drain and set aside.
3. In a pan, heat oil. Fry the meat until browned. Remove and set aside.
4. In the same pan, saute onion, parsley and celery for 5 minutes.
5. In the same pot stock, add all the ingredients except chives.
6. Bring to a boil and simmer until the meat is tender.
7. Transfer in serving bowls and garnish with chives.

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HOW TO MAKE WIBELE

How To Make Wibele –this is another sort of German cookie. Wibele is a small biscuits that are shaped like number 8. In the United States, many bakeries and pastry shops offer this thing. It is good for kids as present when they got high grades in school or did a good job. If there is no German-inspired bakery around your place, don’t worry because you can still make your own Wibele. Making this biscuit is not tricky at all, it’s like baking your favorite cookies, only this time, you’re going to make it look like number 8. Wibele is just a plain cookie but you can add a twist by using your favorite pastry dip. In our home, we use maple syrup and sometimes, chocolate. One of my friends combine it with marshmallows but I haven’t tried it. Here is how to make Wibele:

Ingredients

1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

½ cup brown sugar

1 ½ cup butter

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon mixed spice

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

2 tablespoon lemon extract

1 egg

Baking Procedure

1. In a bowl, combine together all the ingredients except egg and lemon extract.
2. Mix perfectly, add the remaining ingredients and knead until dough is formed.
3. Roll the dough on a lightly floured surface.
4. Cut the dough into pieces and make shapes like number 8.
5. Put on a baking tray.
6. Preheat oven to 350ºF for 12 minutes.
7. Remove and let cool.

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HOW TO MAKE SPRINGERLE (RECIPE)

How To Make Springerle (Recipe) –This is another traditional cookie famous in Central Europe especially in countries with German minorities. There is one thing you may find a problem when doing this cookie and that is the mold because we are going to use molds with design. But if you can’t find the molds then that’s alright. Simple mold would be alright, the design is just a bonus but the main thing we must consider here is the taste. On this recipe, we are going to use anise seeds but I tried sesame seeds and the taste was different but gives good taste. Also we are going to use vanilla but I tried maple syrup, it gives different taste as well but as good as using vanilla. You can experiment using the recipe. You can replace the seeds and vanilla with your favorite cookie ingredients. Here is how to make Springerle (recipe):

Ingredients

3 ½ cup all-purpose flour

1/8 cup anise seeds (crushed)

4 eggs (whisked)

1 tsp baking powder

2 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar

2 ¼ cup brown sugar

½ tsp vanilla

Baking Procedure

1. Grease 4 pieces cookie sheets, scatter with anise seeds, set aside.
2. In a bowl, mix together flour and baking powder. Mix perfectly.
3. In another bowl, combine eggs, vanilla and brown sugar altogether. Whisk perfectly until frothy.
4. Slowly pour flour in the eggs mixture while stirring to form a thick dough.
5. Scoop dough with your one hand and roll out on floured surface and make it into ¼ inch thick.
6. Gently sift confectioners’ sugar onto the dough.
7. Put the mold and press against the dough to create design.
8. Remove the mold and cut off the excessive dough all around the molded dough. Just repeat the process for all the remaining dough.
9. Place in the sheets and cover with clean cloth and set aside for 8 hours.
10. Preheat the oven to 120 degrees C.
11. Put the dough in the oven and bake until the surface turns light brown, that is approximately half an hour.
12. Remove from the oven and let cool down.
13. Store in a sealed container.

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HOW TO MAKE ZWIEBELKUCHEN

How To Make Zwiebelkuchen –In Germany, there is a tradition takes place during every fall season when the winemakers open a basinwirtschaft in the barn serving green wine with Zwiebelkuchen for very cheap price. One of the indications that a household started to serve is when there is a straw broom hanging over the doorway. This dish contains onions and bacon which I think are the key ingredients to give reasons why it is best served with wine. To me, the best drink for this dish is the red wine because I am not much of a drinker. In this recipe, we are going to use caraway seed but you can do some experiments by replacing it with anis or sesame seeds, even peanuts will do the trick. Here is how to make Zwiebelkuchen:

Ingredients

2 kilograms of sweet onions (sliced)

4 pieces cooked bacon (chopped)

15 oz. sour cream

¼ cup all-purpose flour

4 eggs (whisked)

½ tsp salt

½ tsp caraway seeds

2 recipe pastry (for 9” si crust pie)

Baking Procedure

1. Preheat oven to 220 degrees C.
2. Place the dough in the pizza pan.
3. In a frying pan, saute onion until translucent.
4. In a large bowl, combine onions and bacon together.
5. Add sour cream and stir.
6. Combine eggs and pie mixture and stir perfectly. Add flour to thicken.
7. Combine all the ingredients together and pour into prepared pizza pan.
8. Scatter caraway seeds on top.
9. Bake for an hour and set aside to cool down.
10. And serve with your favorite wine.

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HOW TO MAKE LEBERKAESE (Leberkäse)

How To Make Leberkäse – The Germans love to eat sausages and many kinds of dishes that have sausage in it. Leberkäse is a sort of sausage baked in a mold. This dish is eaten and served with fried egg or can be served with mashed potatoes too. Mustard can be a perfect thing that can be combined with, either sweet or hot. Leberkäse is made of ground pork and beef with fatty bacon. I have found one canned Leberkäse but the taste was different although I could taste something that is close enough to being Leberkäse. This dish is also an Aryan traditional food which I believe can be eaten as main course for breakfast and dinner or can be eaten as snack combined with hot lemon and tea. Here is how to make Leberkäse:

Ingredients

½ kilo ground beef

¼ kilo ground pork

1 cup fatty bacon (diced)

2 bratwurst (cooked, remove the skin)

1cup sweet onion (minced)

1 cup ice (crushed)

½ teaspoon lemon extract

2 tablespoon butter

Salt and pepper (according to your taste)

Marjoram

Cooking Procedure

1. In a bowl, combine together all the ingredients except butter. Mix and knead perfectly.
2. Melt the butter in a saucepan.
3. Grease the baking tray with butter and line with aluminum foil.
4. Preheat oven to 355 degrees F.
5. Place the meat mixture into the tray. Spread butter around the meat mixture.
6. Bake the meat for 1 hour 15 minutes.
7. Remove from oven and let it cool down.
8. Transfer in a serving plate and serve with sweet mustard.

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HOW TO COOK SCHWEINSBRATEN

How To Cook Schweinsbraten –here is another German traditional dish. This dish requires you to fry the pork and roast. This Schweinsbraten recipe I am going to share with you has many ingredients but you can replace some of it with your favorite replacements. I have tried many versions of this dish and the outcome were all good so don’t hesitate to experiment. Here is how to cook Schweinsbraten:

Ingredients

1 kilo pork loin

¾ tbsp salt

¾ tbsp black pepper (ground)

1 ½ tbsp grainy mustard

½ tsp caraway seeds

¾ tbsp sweet paprika

1 tbsp vegetable oil

2 medium size sweet onions (diced)

2 medium size carrots

2 tbsp cornstarch

2 tbsp butter

2 ¼ cups water

1 stalk green onion (chopped)

½ tbsp celeriac (chopped)

Cooking Procedure

1. Preheat oven to 175 degrees C.
2. Scatter pepper, salt and paprika, mustard and caraway seeds over pork and spread.
3. In a large frying pan, heat vegetable oil. Fry pork until golden brown.
4. Remove the pork and transfer to a roasting pan and set aside.
5. In the same pan, add onions (also the green onion), celeriac and carrots. Saute until cooked.
6. Transfer the cooked vegetables around pork in the roasting pan.
7. In the same frying pan, pour hot water, simmer and pour over pork.
8. Roast the pork in the oven for 2 hours. Pour melted fats over the pork time to time.
9. Check if the juice is running out, add water if necessary while roasting.
10.  Remove from oven. And set aside the pork.
11.  Remove the juice from the tray and transfer in a sauce pan.
12.  Add cornstarch and simmer until the sauce thickens.
13.  Pour sauce over the pork and serve.

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HOW TO COOK WEIHNACHTSGANS

How To Cook Weihnachtsgans –Here is another traditional dish of Deutschland. This is  very common most espcially when there is a festivity in Germany. They always make Weihnachtsgans using either goose or duck. If youre going to make it, well you may want to use chicken, why not, since chicken is easier to find and way cheaper than duck. We are talking about whole duck and chicken here, alright? Don’t skip the reading and say ‘hey!  I know that, I cleaned the chicken and chopped it,’ wow! You have ruined the dish, lol! Anyway just follow the recipe carefully and if you have a problem about it, just leave your comment below.Here is how to cook Weihnachtsgans:

Ingredients

About 2kgs whole goose (cleaned and dressed)

1 small can of fruit cocktails

1 onion (thinly sliced)

1 tsp thyme

Salt and pepper according to your taste

2 tablespoon flour

15 ounces chicken broth

Cooking Procedure

1. Wash the goose with running water to  get rid of unwanted substances or dirt. Dry.
2. Spread salt and pepper with thyme on inside part of  the goose.
3. Fill in cocktails and onions.
4. Combine salt and water and pour into the roasting tray.
5. Put the goose on the tray and pierce several times for the fat to drip as its being cooked.
6. Preheat oven to 350°F.
7. Roast for 50 minutes.
8. Baste several times with salt and water mixture as it cooks.
9. Now, turn rhe goose upside down and do the basting process several times and roast for another 50 minutes.
10.  Remove from oven and let it cool down.
11.  in a bowl, pour in ¼ cup of fat drippings. Add flour. And heat in a pan for 1 minutes until thickens.
12.  Add chicken broth and stir while adding salt and pepper and thyme.
13.  Put in a serving tray and serve with gravy.

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HOW TO MAKE SAUERKRAUT

How To Make Sauerkraut –One of the famous Korean dishes is Kimchee. It is like a pickled cabbage with some seasonings in it. But we  are not going to make that this time, I just mentioned it because this dish we are going to make is a German counterpart of it. It is also made of cabbage with some onions vinegar and apple cider in it. I like kimchi, don’t get me wrong, but this Sauerkraut has different taste. I even eat it whenever I’m sleepy because I don’t know but it keeps me awake. I like to eat it with brats or accompanied with rice and fish fillet. It is actually sour and crunchy perfect for hamburger filling served with beer or soda. There are Sauerkrauts you can buy from supermarket and groceries but the homemade ones are way better, the ones from supermarkets last longer though. But don’t worry about how long it lasts, we are not going to make tons of it. Just enough for one small jar. Here is how to make Sauerkraut:

Ingredients

1 medium size cabbage (shredded)

1 small size red onion (minced)

1 tbsp olive oil

½ cup apple cider

1 cup cider vinegar

½ cup water

1 tbsp salt

1 tsp caraway seed

Procedure

1. In a pan, heat oil over medium-high heat.
2. Saute onion until translucent.
3. Add all the remaining ingredients. Stir well.
4. Cover the pan and simmer for half an hour.
5. Remove from the pan and let it cool.
6. Transfer in a jar and refrigerate.

Note: This Sauerkraut lasts 2 weeks if kept in a fridge.

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HOW TO MAKE ROULADEN

How To Make Rouladen –How many meat rolls that we know of? I have tried many, it’s a shame that most of them, I don’t know how to make. This German Rouladen is a meat rolls filled with onions, some pickles and bacon. One of the processes in making this dish the frying  so oil is necessary but everyone has its own way of frying like when it comes to using oil, some of us prefer cooking oil, others prefer butter or olive oil. It is up to you,  just do not skip the frying process. This recipe I am going to share with you is not mine. I just found it on the internet. But I like this recipe so i want to share it with you. You may want to replace some ingredients but make sure you won’t ruin the taste. Making this dish is not tricky at all so  it is good for the beginners and new housewives who want to impress their husbands. Here is how to make Rouladen:

Ingredients

1 lb. steak (sliced as thin as possible, 3x3 inches in area)

German ground mustard

½ lb. bacon

2 large size sweet onions (sliced)

15 oz. jar dill pickles (sliced)

2 tbsp butter (or oil)

2 cups water

1cup beef broth

Cooking Procedure

1. Spread every side of the steak with mustard, according to your taste, of course.
2. Arrange bacon, onions and pickles on every steak fillet and roll.
3. To hold every end of the rolls, use toothpick.
4. In a pan, heat the butter to melt over medium heat.
5. When the butter is molten, fry the rolls until browned.
6. Add water and beef broth, simmer for 50 minutes.
7. And serve.

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HOW TO COOK KASESPATZLE (KAESESPAETZLE)

How To Cook Käsespätzle (Kaesespaetzle) –this dish is very common, but again, many of us are not familiar with its name. Käsespätzle is a very German version of Mac and Cheese. In the Aryan countries in Central Europe, Käsespätzle is a traditional dish tossed with onions and also emmentaler cheese is used. Nutmeg is also an ingredient for this dish but because some people have an allergic reaction to it, I would like to say that you can replace the nutmeg with other sort of spices. Cinnamon is good for Käsespätzle as well as ground cloves. When Im making this dish, I add extra amount of onions because I like the taste of cheese combine with onions but in the recipe I am going to share with you, I just put 1 medium size onion beause some of us are not really big fans of onions but you can add more of that. Here is how to cook Käsespätzle (Kaesespaetzle):

Ingredients

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup emmentaler cheese (shredded)

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon nutmeg (ground)

A pinch of black pepper (freshly ground)

2 eggs (whisked)

¼ cup milk

2 tablespoon butter

1 medium size sweet onion (thinly sliced)

Water and salt

Cooking Procedure

1. In a bowl, combine together flour, salt, pepper and nutmeg.
2. Pour the milk in the flour mixture little by little and stir simultaneously to form batter. Set aside.
3. In a pot, bring water to a boil combine with little bit of salt.
4. Press batter through a cheese grater or colander and press into the hot water.
5. When the spaetzle floated, remove and transfer it to a bowl.
6. Add cheese and mix perfectly.
7. In a pan, melt butter. Add onion and saute until browned. Add spaetzle and mix perfectly.
8. Remove from heat and serve.

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HOW TO COOK STOLLEN

How To Cook Stollen –this dish is another German food but it is famous even in the United States. I had my first Stollen when I was like 12 years old and I couldn’t forget how was the taste like. It is delicious and I  was wondering why this kind pf dish is not as popular as kebab and marzipan. I found out that this Stollen thing is tricky to make and it requires a lot of ingredients so I thought that is why. But it is worth the effort, believe me. It is good to  prepare when you expect especial someone coming to you for a visit like friends or relatives, they would fell the hospitality just by eating this dish. The recipe I am going to share with you is not mine, I don’t remember when I got it from though. Anyway, here is how to cook Stollen:

Ingredients

2 tsp active yeast (dried)

6 ounce warm milk

1 egg

3 ounce caster sugar

2 ounce currants

12 ounce flour (prime or second class)

1 tsp salt

3 ounce butter

½ tsp cinnamon (ground)

1 tsp icing sugar

2 tbsp lemon extract

2 ounce sultanas

2 ounce red glace cherries (diced)

200 grams marzipan

Flaked almonds for topping.

oil

Cooking Procedure

1. In a bowl, pour in the warm milk, add yeast and dissolve. Let rest for 10 minutes.
2. Add egg, sugar, butter, salt and flour. Mix perfectly until the dough is formed.
3. Add lemon extract, cherries,  sultanas and currants. Knead perfectly until the dough becomes smooth.
4. Grease a large bowl with oil. Put the dough in it and turn until all the surfaces of dough is oiled.
5. Cover with cloth and let rise in size for 1 hour.
6. Grease a baking pan with oil. Put the dough in it and spread to create a wide area.
7. Arrange and roll the marzipan in the center of the dough and fold to cover the marzipan. Tuck it in by pressing the seams together.
8. Turn the dough upside down and let rest for an hour.
9. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.
10. Bake the dough for 10 minutes. Lower the heat to  150 C and let bake for half an hour.
11. Remove from the oven and let it cool down.
12. Scatter some icing sugar, cinnamon and almond flakes on the loaf.
13. And serve with hot chocolate or coffee.

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HOW TO COOK SCHUPFNUDELN

How To Cook Schupfnudeln –this  delicious dish is a kind of home-made pasta. Its dough is made of potatoes and cut into some shapes like a spaghetti pasta noodles. This food is very popular in Germany especially in Baden-Wurttemberg. I already shared with you how to make spaetzle, I mentioned it because we are going to use that dish to make Schupfnudeln. This recipe I am going to share with you is served with many side dishes but what makes it more delicious is that this dish is best served with almost any kind of meat especially when the meat is roasted. This recipe is just a simple one just to help you get started on making this dish yourself. It is not tricky so don’t bother yourself skipping this recipe, lol! Here is how to cook Schupfnudeln:

Ingredients

½ cup flour

1 ½ lb russet potatoes

¼ cup butter

1 egg

½ tsp salt

1 tbsp chopped parsley

¼ tsp ground nutmeg

Cooking Procedure

1.      In a pot, boil potatoes with their peel until cooked, that is approximately half an hour.

2.       Remove from water when cooked. Set aside and let it cool down.

3.      On a clean wide board, scatter some flour on it. Peel the potatoes and mash it on the board.

4.      Add flour and the remaining ingredients except butter. Knead until dough is formed.

5.      Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough into 1cm thickness.

6.      Cut the dough into strips about 4cm long and stretch as much as possible. Set aside and let rest for 15 minutes.

7.      In a wide frying pan, put the butter and let it melt over medium heat.

8.      Fry the dough strips until golden brown each sides.

9.      Serve with bacon or sauerkraut.

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HOW TO COOK GAISBURGER MARSCH

How To Cook Gaisburger Marsch –this dish very common to us, it is just the name we are not familiar with because Gaisburger Marsch is just a counterpart of what we call beef and vegetable stew. Although this is very German, you can make your own version of it by replacing some of the ingredients used in this recipe. Unlike other beef stews we make, cooking this dish requires beer. I know that some wine gives better taste to stews but I didn’t know that beer could also be added to stews, I was amazed when I learned about this thing. Actually the beer is used to combine with broth used for simmering and that’s is what we are going to do. I have shared with you the recipe on how to make spatzle, I am mentioning it because this stew is not complete without it. Here is how to cook Gaisburger Marsch:

Ingredients

1 pound beef (cut into cubes)

1 cup beer

4 cups beef broth (or enough amount to cover beef for simmering)

1 medium size onion (diced)

1 stalk celery

2 medium size carrots (diced)

1 pound uncooked potatoes (peeled and diced)

1 small bowl spatzle (cooked)

1 tablespoon nutmeg

Salt to taste

1 onion, (cut into rings)

Butter

1 tablespoon parlsey (chopped)

Cooking Procedure

1. In a pot, put the beef , beer, salt, diced onion, celery, carrots and broth.
2. Bring to a boil and simmer until the beef is cooked and tender.
3. When the beef is almost cooked, drop the potatoes.
4. In a skillet, melt butter and fry onion rings until translucent.
5. Pour the stew in individual serving bowls and garnish with onion rings and parsley.
6. And serve.

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HOW TO COOK FLADLESUPPE

How To Cook Flädlesuppe –here is another Aryan dish that you would like and the good news here is that you can use your leftover pancakes, yes. It is not tricky at all. This dish is a soup so you wouldn’t worry about the sauce or gravy or anything that you may want to get rid of everytime you make dishes. Flädlesuppe is actually composed of pancakes and broth. You can use your favorite vegetable broth on this one. It is up to you, who knows, your broth is way better than mine. But please, take note that do not make this one way earlier than you are going to serve it because the broth will get cold and the pancakes will fall apart by soaking up the broth. You can prepare the ingredients earlier though. Here is how to cook Flädlesuppe:

Ingredients

8 cups of  vegetable broth

6 small size pancakes (cut into strips)

1 medium size carrots (cut into sticks)

1 green onion (cut into sticks)

1 celery (cut into strips/sticks)

½ cup chayote (cut into sticks)

1 tablespoon fresh parsley (chopped)

1 tablespoon celery leaves (chopped)

Salt and pepper to taste

Cooking Procedure

1. In a pot, combine all the vegetables, pour in broth and boil until the vegetables are cooked.
2. Add salt and pepper according to your taste, check the taste if not too salty to you.
3. Put the pancakes in individual serving bowls.
4. Pour broth over pancakes and add some cooked vegetables.
5. Garnish with parsley and celery leaves and serve.

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HOW TO COOK SPAETZLE

How To Cook Spätzle –this is a traditional dumpling in Central Europe especially in Germany and other countries inspired with Deutsch cultures like Austria and Hungary. This Spätzle or spaetzle is like spaghetti but we are not going to use ready-made pasta noodles because making the noodle dough is one of the processes we are going to do using this recipe I am going to share with you. Making this dish is not tricky at all but making the speatzel requires spaetzle maker which I think not all households have it. But if you have mechanical grater, then problem is solved because grater can be used in making spaetzle. I am not so sure if there is a ready-made spaetzle that we can buy from supermarkets because I have not tried looking for it in. You may want to adjust the amoun of ingredients according to your taste. Now, lets get the ingredients and do the cooking. Here is how to cook Spätzle

Ingredients

1 cup all-purpose flour

Milk (amount depends upon the dryness of flour)

2 eggs

½ tsp nutmeg (ground)

A dash of white pepper (ground)

½ tsp salt

Water for simmering

2 tbsp butter

2 tbsp parsley (chopped)

Cooking Procedure

1. In a bowl, combine together flour, white pepper, salt and nutmeg. Mix well.
2. Whisk egg, combine with ½ cup of milk. Mix perfectly.
3. Little by little, pour the milk mixture to the flour to make dough.
4. If the dough is smooth enough, do not add anymore milk.
5. Put the dough in the spaetzle maker and press.
6. In a pot, heat water until simmering.
7. Drop the spaetzle little by little in the simmering water.
8. Let it cook for 9 minutes.
9. Remove the spaetzle from water and put in a collander to remove water perfectly.
10. In a pan, melt butter over medium heat.
11. Saute the spaetzle for 3 minutes.
12. Transfer in a serving plate, scatter parsley over it and serve.

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HOW TO COOK SCHWEINSHAXE

How To Cook Schweinshaxe –This dish is a Bavarian counterpart of English pork knuckles or what we also call foreshanks. There are many version of this dish and some of these versions are tricky. But what I am going to share with you is not the tricky one because I don’t believe there is a huge difference between the tricky and simple ones as far as taste is concerned. It is good accompanied with beer and also red wine but I’m not much of a drunk person so water or soda pop would be great. And I eat it with rice. There are many German restaurants in the U.S. so you can try many versions of it because they serve Schweinshaxe. Sometimes, if I don’t find prok knuckles, what I use is just pork. Yep, because the recipe is not good just with pork knuckles but also good with different pork meats. Here is how to cook Schweinshaxe:

Ingredients

2 pork knuckles

1 large size carrots (diced)

1 medium size onion (diced)

1 leek (chopped)

1 stalk celery (chopped)

2 tbsp vegetable shortening

1 tsp black pepper (whole)

¼ cup beer

Ground cumin to taste

Salt to taste

Cooking Procedure

1. In a pot, put together pork knuckles, celery, leek, carrots, onions, salt and pepper.
2. Add water enough to cover the knuckles.
3. Bring to a boil and simmer over medium-high heat for 2 hours or longer depending on pork. Just check time to time if the pork is yet tender.
4. Remove the knuckles from the pot and set aside.
5. Remove vegetables from the pot and set aside.
6. Reserve the broth.
7. Pre heat oven to 220 degrees C. Put the shortening in a baking pan and melt.
8. Put the knuckles, vegetables and 2 cups of broth to the baking pan.
9. Bake for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, combine beer and salt (to taste) mix well until the salt is dissolved.
10. Sprinkle the knuckles and vegetables with beer and bake for another 10 minutes.
11. Remove from the oven and transfer in serving plates.
12. Scatter cumin over the knuckels.
13. And serve with sauerkraut.

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HOW TO COOK KNODEL

How To Cook Knodel –here is another dumpling dish from Aryan people. This is a traditional dish in Austria. Knodel literally means ‘dumpling’ and it is best serve with toasted bread. Kids love it so it is a good way for the mothers to have their children eat their food an I bet, kids would ask for more. This is good for breakfast and a good source of energy so this not just for the small kids but even for adults because this a breakfast that would help you do you morning chores since it gives fair amount of carbohydrates and protein. You are going to need 2 eggs so if you want to make it a little hearty, just use 3 eggs and remove the yolk. Here is how to cook Knodel:

Ingredients

1 lb toasted white bread (cut into cubes)

1 small size sweet onion (diced)

2 tbsp fresh parsley (diced)

2 tsp butter

2 eggs (whisked)

1 cup milk

Salt and pepper (to taste)

Cooking Procedure

1. In a pan, heat butter over medium heat.
2. Grease a baking dish with butter.
3. In the pan, combine oil and parsley, saute until the onions turn light brown.
4. Add bread and toss perfectly.
5. In a small bowl, combine eggs, salt, pepper and milk. Whisk perfectly.
6. Pour the egg mixture to the same pan and mix well.
7. Remove from heat and let rest for an hour. Make balls from mixture.
8. Put the balls to the baking tray and cover with aluminum foil.
9.  In a steaming pot, put water. Place the baking tray over the water for steaming.
10.  Cover the pot and steam for an hour.
11. Remove the tray from the pot and let cool.
12.  Spread butter melts and serve.

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HOW TO COOK SAUERBRATEN

How To Cook Sauerbraten –Here is another German traditioal dish. It is  very popular in the Rhur Valley region of the country. I have never been to other regions of Germany but I am sure they even make this dish as well. I tried many versions of Sauerbraten and I can say all of them are worth trying because they are so delicious that you’ll get confused whether you are in United States or Deutschland when eating them. It consists of many ingredients so you may want to  replace some with other ingredients but be careful because you might end up ruining the taste, but why not? It would teach you a thing or two so don’t be afraid experimenting. Even myself messed up with the recipes as well but I found the right one that suits my taste. The process is not tricky at all  but you can’t eat it whenever you want because we will have to marinade it. Here is how to cook Sauerbraten:

Ingredients

1 ½ lb. beef rump roast

1 sweet onion (chopped)

½ cup red wine vinegar

½ cup water

½ tbsp salt

½ tbsp ground pepper

1 tsp brown sugar

5 whole cloves

1 bay leaf

1 tbsp flour

Salt to taste

Ground pepper to taste

2 tbsp oil

5 slices bread  (crumbled)

Cooking Procedure

1. In a plastice container, combine together beef rump  roast, water, vinegar wine, onions, salt, pepper, sugar, bay leaf and cloves. Mix well.
2. Cover and marinade for 3 days.
3. After  3 days, remove the meat from marinade and dry.
4. Reserve the marinade and set aside.
5. In a large bowl, combine flour, salt and pepper, mix well.
6. Add the meat and mix evenly until all the meat is covered with flour mixture.
7. In a frying pan, heat oil over medium heat.
8. Fry the beef until golden brown on every side.
9. Pour the marinade to the pan. Set the stove at medium-low heat.
10. Simmer until the meat is tender, it s slow cooking so it will take up to 3 hours.
11. Remove the meat and slice.
12. Add bread crumbs to the pan and stir while simmering until the gravy is thickened.
13. Put the meat in a serving plate and pour gravy over the meat.
14. And serve.

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