8 Favorite German Dishes - That You Can Find Everywhere In Germany

Hi and welcome to our channel. German cuisine is very regional. However, there are some dishes that you can find in the bigger cities. In this video, I'm going to show you the list of my favorite German dishes that you can eat all over Germany. This video is a part of the series about traditional German food in which we feature traditional German dishes from particular cities in Germany. If you don't know me yet, my name is Marta from Cooking the World and I am a food guide in Frankfurt. I have been traveling, cooking and writing about food for the past five years and I cannot stop loving it. Make sure that you watch this video till the end because by the end of this video, I'm going to give you a little trick how you should search for traditional dishes in Germany. So without further ado, let's start. I'm going to start this video with my favorite soup which is called Festagsuppe. Festagsuppe is a clear meat broth that is served with different toppings. The toppings depend on the region and a recipe. Those can be meatballs, semolina dumplings, egg drop, bone marrow dumplings, liver dumplings, homemade noodles, and even pancakes cut into smaller pieces. The soup is usually served as an appetizer for popular holidays or even weddings. In the past, the Festagsuppe was actually vegetable broth that was served with pieces of meat like a kind of a leftovers but that, as you can see, has changed over time. My next favorite soup is Spargelcremesuppe and this is a soup that is made of white asparagus broth, rocks and cream. You can find the soup in most of the German restaurants from April to June. Usually, it also contains small pieces of white asparagus which I love. If you are in Germany and you see on the menu cream soup, that actually means that the soup contains cream. So it's not about the consistency of the soup but about this particular ingredient. White asparagus came to Germany from the Holy Roman Empire and now Germany is one of the biggest producers after China, Mexico and Peru of the white asparagus. I already have made a video how to prepare a German white asparagus two ways so I'm gonna put the link to it down below. My third favorite dish in Germany is Bratwurst but not any kind of bratwurst. I really like Thüringer Bratwurst which is a bratwurst that comes from the region that is called Thüringer. Thüringer Bratwurst is made of pork but sometimes also veal or beef meat is added. Usually, it is spiced with salt, pepper, marjoram, caraway seeds and garlic. When I buy Thüringer Bratwurst, I look for the raw version of it and also I buy grobe Bratwurst which means that the bratwurst is made of the bigger chunks of the meat which I seriously love. The bratwurst is allowed to be called Thüringer if 51 percent of the ingredients come from Thüringen. And I'm not gonna lie to you for the best Thüringer Bratwurst you're gonna definitely need to go to Thüringen but because it became so popular there are also some supermarkets or street food vendors that provide this kind of a bratwurst. If you want to know what other sausages to eat in Germany, I'm gonna put a video for you in the top right corner and in the description box down below. My next favorite dish in Germany that you can find all over the country are Käsespätzle. Spätzle are soft noodle dumplings that come from Swabia but not only. Stay tuned for that. They are served with cheese and normally they are prepared on the pan or in the oven. There are different kind of cheeses that are used for Käsespätzle also depending on the region. I love eating my Käsespätzle in Allgäu because those are served with a back Käse so the cheese from mountains and they're pretty stinky but I actually love it. Wherever you are in Allgäu you're gonna definitely need to try Käsespätzle. Käsespätzle are traditionally made in Swabia, Allgäu, Vorarlberg, Tirol, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. For allen Mühleren, so Trautmanier is another dish that I seriously loved here from Germany. Trautmanier is actually a method of preparation where the ingredient would be coated in flour and then fried or baked in the oven and obviously in this case is a trout. The fish is usually served with a batter with almonds, cooked potatoes and a lemon wedge. We also have a great recipe for the Trautmanier on our blog so I'll put the link to it down below. Another dish that I cannot skip in this video is obviously Schnitzel. Die Schnitzel originated in Austria and it was usually served with the cooked potatoes and cranberries. In Germany we also serve the pork versions of the Schnitzel. I have already posted two videos about Schnitzel. In one you can find out how to make the best Schnitzel and in the second one you are informed about the different variations. So if you want to know a little bit more about Schnitzel please go ahead and watch those. Another very popular dish in all over Germany and one of my favorite ones is Schweinsbraten or Schweinebraten. Schweinebraten is a pork roast that is made from shoulder, leg, rib or pork butt and as always depending on the region it's served with a Schweinebraten is listed as a traditional Bavarian dish and in Bavaria it's usually served with dumplings, cabbage and dark beer sauce. In other regions it might be also served with red cabbage or sauerkraut. And my last favorite dish from Germany are the beef rolls. Beef rolls are made from sliced meat that is stuffed with different ingredients. Usually it's salt, pepper, mustard, bacon, pickled cucumber and onion. Obviously there are plenty different recipes but those supposed to be the main ingredients. The most popular sides for Rinder Rouladen, so the beef rolls, is cooked red cabbage and potato dumplings. But in some of the regions they serve it with a sauerkraut, cooked potatoes, mashed potatoes or Spätzle. And now I'm going to quickly show you how to find them in wherever city you go. On internet there is a website called Speisekarte.de that you can translate to English and on this website you can search a dish, ingredient or a by location. So let us try with the last one Rinder Rouladen or Rouladen. As you can see let's find them in Hamburg. And as you can see here are many different restaurants listed and also they show the prices of the dishes. How great is this? I hope that this trick's gonna help you a little bit to find the traditional dishes when you go on your trip to Germany. Next week we will be finally focusing on traditional dishes from the particular cities and if you haven't seen the video from the previous week I was actually talking about authentic German cuisine and gave a bit of general information that I think it's gonna be useful if you like food and you are coming to Germany. In the meantime I wish you all happy week and I see you on the next one. Bye!