How to cook Bavarian salad?

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Traditional Bavarian cuisine is very tasty and hearty. Even salads do not serve as an appetizer in it, 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 cabbage, beloved by the Germans. There is another version of the classic "Bavarian" salad - potato. This is also a very hearty and tasty dish.

Features of Bavarian salads

They all contain meat products. Most often these are sausages, smoked sausage or brisket. But such salads are also common with chicken. Salad "Bavarian" is distinguished by fragrant and moderately spicy seasonings. Most often it is vinegar, mustard, black pepper and herbs. Dressed mainly with a special sauce, which is prepared separately. But there are options with mayonnaise, sour creamor 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 soak in dressing and become even tastier. To serve on a festive table, the components of such a dish can not be mixed, but laid 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 such a dish. But they all contain essential ingredients and are prepared in the same way.

1. Traditionally, the "Bavarian" salad may include pickles or fresh cucumbers, tomatoes or cabbage.
2. Sausages are an obligatory ingredient. Classic salad "Bavarian" contains Viennese sausages or German sausages. They are boiled or added raw. But you can take any smoked sausage, ham or sausages.



3. The third obligatory component of a traditional salad is hard cheese. Emmental is best, as it gives the dish an unusual fruity and nutty flavor. But you can take any variety, even processed.
4. And the last component - red sweet onion, cut into rings.

Preparing such a dish is easy: all the ingredients are cut into strips or cubes and mixed. But in order for the salad to live up to tradition, you need to season it properly. There are several options for dressings other than mayonnaise and sour cream:

• mix a few tablespoons of gherkin brine, vegetable oil, preferably from pumpkin seeds or olive, and white wine vinegar, add black pepper and s alt 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, cumin, ground pepper and s alt.

"Bavarian" chicken salad

In addition to sausages, white lean meat is often used in traditional German dishes. It is gentle yet nourishing. It is also part of Bavarian salads.

1. The classic salad with beans and mushrooms is quite hearty 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. S alt and pepper are added to taste.

2. Delicious and nutritious is the Bavarian salad with chicken and crackers. Cooking it is quick and easy: cut the smoked chicken, tomatoes and hard cheese into cubes and mix, season with mayonnaise with grated garlic and pepper. Before serving, add dried white bread croutons with paprika and s alt.

Potato salad "Bavarian"

The recipe for this traditional dish can also have different options. Potato salad is very popular in Bavaria: it is eaten cold or hot, on its own or as a side dish. The basis of this dish isboiled potatoes. You can add any food to it: cucumbers, meat, eggs or greens.

Very tasty potato salad "Bavarian" with salami. To prepare it, you need to mix thinly chopped boiled potatoes, salami (or any semi-smoked sausage), pickles and red onions. Sprinkle with chopped dill and season with olive oil, grain mustard, s alt and pepper.

A hearty and tasty dish is obtained if boiled potatoes in their skins 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.