Good foods to try in germany.?

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Paula

Schweinebraten
Pork roast in a rich gravy. Served with boiled potatoes, Knoedeln (dumplings) or Spaetzle in Swabia.

Goulasch
Sharply fried beef and pork cubes stewed with onions and red or green pepper. It is served with boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes or noodles.

Kassler mit Sauerkraut
Cured pork shops, cooked, served with Sauerkraut and boiled potatoes.

Eisbein mit Sauerkraut
Very fat pork knuckles, cooked, served with sauerkraut. It was a favourite when most people still worked hard in the fields. Modern lifestyle and health consciousness did away with this item.

Wiener Schnitzel
Thin veal fillet, crumbed and fried. Served with chips and salad.

Erbsensuppe
Pea soup with onions and potato cubes. Cooked in a beef broth and sometimes mashed. Usually served with pieces of Bockwurst (thick vienna-like sausage).

Leberknoedel Suppe
Clear soup with pork liver meat balls. Especially cooked in Bavaria.

Kartoffelsuppe
Potato cubes soup with onions and bacon. Cooked in a beef broth. Served with pieces of Bockwurst (thick vienna-like sausage).

Leipziger Allerlei
Thick soup made from a combination of vegetables and potato cubes and beef chunks.

Rouladen
Beef olives from large, thin fillet, spiced with mustard and pepper and filled with sour gherkins, onion and bacon. Served with boiled potatoes or pasta.

Kohlrouladen (Krautwickel)
Spiced mince wrapped in big leaves of cabbage, fried in bacon and stewed until done. Served with boiled potatoes.

Sauerbraten mit Rotkohl
Beef, pickled in buttermilk and then roasted in a tangy gravy sometimes with added raisins. It is mostly served with sweetsour Rotkohl (red cabbage).

Huehnerfrikassee
Chicken a la king. Served with rice or boiled potatoes.

Kochfisch mit Senfsauce
Steamed fish fillets with mustard sauce. Mostly Kabeljau (kabeljou), Rotbarsch (red perch) or Schellfisch is used. Served with boiled potatoes.

Bratfisch mit Kartoffelsalat
Crumbed and fried fish fillet with potato salad. Potato salad consists of boiled and sliced potatoes in a sauce made from mayonaise, small pieces of sour gherkins and finely chopped raw onions.

Forelle Blau
Steamed trout with owes its bluish colour to a sip of vinegar in the water. Served with boiled potatoes, melted butter and parsley.

Karpfen Blau
Carp, boiled in a special pot with a cup in the stomach to keep it standing upright. A sip of vinegar in the water results in the bluish colour. Served with boiled potatoes, melted butter and parsley. Typical dish for holy eve.

Brathering mit Bratkartoffeln
A fried and subsequently pickled whole herring accompanied by crisply fried potato slices and onion rings.

There are a great number of other traditional dishes which are typical for certain regions of Germany.

Desserts
Germans mostly have ice cream, fruit or fruit salad for dessert. However, there are a few "Nachspeisen" that are typical for Germany.

Rote Gruetze
A fruit compote made from red berries, topped with vanille custard.

Pudding
German Pudding is made from milk, eggs, starch and sugar. It is boiled and poured into moulds to cool and get firm. Pudding comes either as Schokoladenpudding or Vanillepudding by adding cocoa or vanille. It is served with custard, strawberries or morello cherries. Nowadays everybody uses the pre-mixed pudding powders although it is almost as easy to prepare it yourself.

Milchreis
Round risotto-type rice simmered in milk until it has absorbed the milk and is soft. Served with a mix of sugar and cinnamon or fruit compote.

Eis und Heiss
Vanille ice cream with hot morello cherry compote.

blueiichris

their breads,the meats,pastries,beers all are great.

PseudoSlySpyderGuyLied

Ghoulash, schnitzel, the wursts are good (in Bavaria), a product in the stores that you might like is Natello, which is a chocolate spread for rolls and toast.

Good luck.

oghma2006

They have several pickled salads/vegetables that are wonderful. Try the little dumplings(spatzle), sauerbraten, jagerschnitzel, rouladen. I loved all of these. And the bakeries have some pretty awesome sweets and pastries, too.

Grunt

Kaiser Kuchen Cheese cake the best in the world.Doner Kabobs made by Turks but there everywhere real tasty the funny thing is you cant get them in Turkey.Knoodle a big dumpling good with sauer brauten. Hand Kaser mit music

Lizzy

depends on where you going! if you're heading south you gotta eat swabian food like spÃ¤tzle! :-)

Alletery

Schnitzel, Sauerkraut and roast potatoes. I love Rohladen too! You are making me hungry!!!

momoney

I can only suggest the Kartoffelsalat or potato salad.

I'm afraid I am not a huge fan of German food (I don't eat meat) and greatly miss the veg. dishes back home.

Samantha G

One of my closest friends is from Germany (Oldenburg). She always raves about the selection of deli meat offered.

chapinero

HI,

one of my favorites is Kaesspaetzle (noodles with cheese), which you can eat in the South.

Other famous foods are sausages, Sauerkraut, all kinds of meat, Bratkartoffeln (potatoes) in the North, Leberkaes (sausage-meat) in Bavaria

and many more....

If you want to eat local, go to any local restaurant. You'll find most of the foods are delicious.

female_daywalker

1.) Try the bread: Germany offers so many different types of bread you will have difficulties to make up your mind
2.) Try an original oven-fresh "Bretzel" - usually you can buy them at train stations
3.) Eat some traditional food at a german restaurant - fried or mashed potatoes should be part of your menue - they are indeed a German specialty
4.) Pizza - don't laugh - there are many Italian Pizza restaurants and the Pizza is great!!!
5.) Cake - apple pie, black forrest cake, cheese cake, etc.
6.) "Currywurst" is a German fast food specialty - it is a cut sausage served in a curry-ketchup-dip
7.) fried sausages!!! "NÃ¼rnberger" - they are the best

t_maia2000

Ok, my personal recommendation is to have a typical German dinner.

A typical German dinner consists of "bread and cheese". But it is German bread, German sausage and the rest that make it special. Germany is famous for its large variety in sausages, the majority of which are used in cold cuts. The same goes for the dark, rye and wheat mix, whole grain breads with oily seeds.

In many places a butchery is combined with a bakery. Buy some fresh (warm) dark bread with lots of seeds (pumpkin, sunflower, sesame) from the bakery and cold sausage cuts from the butchery. Make sandwiches with butter or margarine and eat fresh cucumbers and tomatoes along with it.

Very tasty and relatively cheap too!

For warm food check out Rouladen, Goulash, Koenigsberger Klopse and Sauerbraten.

Currywurst (curry sausage) with french fries is also a must, especially when you visit Berlin. It is the No. 1 fast food snack after the Doener.

For sweets definitely try Stollen and Baumkuchen (tree cake). I like the Baumkuchen from the ALDI supermarket chain best. Eat it along with fresh coffee or milk, because it can be a little dry. Both cakes also are great if you want to take them home to share with friends and relatives.

Also see this site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cuisine

Sam <3

first of all, you will die of happiness over there....its amazing. the food? even better! you will have lots of schnitzel, sausage, bratworst, and cheese. For breakfast they have this spread that's called ntuella...chocolate basically. They eat it on everything!!!
Good luck on your trip!!

GUIDO38676

Bratwurst, hamburgers, and the fish rolls on the carts on the street corners. Snitzel sandwiches are always good, cheap too. Every little town has a brewery, and a festival, good foods an beer. Das gute Zirndorfer was my favorite. Bier.

yiotadelta

In the south you can eat Weisswurst (Munich), Spaetzle (home made pasta, but unfortunately not so good in restaurants), Knoedel (made of potatoes), Zwiebelrostbraten (in Stuttgart, it is delicious rostbeef with onions), Currywurst (also in the area of Stuttgart, obviously sausage with curry sauce) - anyway, all kinds of sausages are excellent and any kind of beer is perfect (and cheap). If you go in the north in May - June, it is worth it to eat whitel Spargel (Asparagus).
In general for your trip, you can find plenty of info on the internet, the german towns all have an internet site and in general the german internet has all information necessary.

sandy

Well there will be plenty of food for you to try to many to name them all. I can name a few for you ,try some Rolladen with knoedel and rotkraut ,or get some schnitzel with or without gravy the all good.if you see an imbiss try a curry wurst :) enough and have lots of fun PS don't forget to drink a cold German beer and if you like sweets try some pastries or cakes like erdbeersahne schwarzwaelder torte etc very good and not as sweet as american cakes

emiliosailez

German food? NO, but do try a pizza.

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