German food extraordinarily diverse, each region has its "crown" dishes that feature original taste. For example, visitors will be treated in Baden snail soup in Saxony you can enjoy a traditional soup eintopf and considered a symbol of Bavaria fragrant pork sausages in combination with beer foam.

Features kitchen

The German cuisine reflects the qualities of the national character as the practicality and solidity. In Germany, there are many made and delicious. From food required it to be plentiful, hearty and delicious. At the same time the usefulness of dishes or sophistication sidelined.

And if the current residents of Germany are trying to eat healthy food, then cook in the old days a lot more concerned about the taste of the foods than their caloric content. As a result, German cuisine gave the world a lot of fatty foods and heavy. This is partly due to the fact that a popular drink in Germany from time immemorial considered beer that blends perfectly with the salting, smoking and fatty foods.

Therefore, the premium variety of meats and sausages. Sausages and hot dogs are considered to be the national dish: they come in all shapes and sizes, and are always present in the traditional German menu. In addition, potatoes are very popular: it is part of the set of dishes and potato starch used length preparation of various dishes, including sweet. Vegetable sprouts are very popular, which is used in the acid form, beans and root vegetables.

Many also used the meat, both in-kind and crushed, in the form of meat. The most popular pork. In coastal areas, the preferred fish.

The basis of the German snack table are the sandwiches Sandwiches. Pros and cons . They are many varieties: with ham, sausage, cheese, fish and simply with butter. Lots of egg dishes - boiled, fried, stuffed, with sauce, in salads. Love in Germany and a variety of omelets.

Respect in Germany and bakery products, and no celebration is complete without a sweet pastry. Cupcakes-Stoll, Black Forest cake, a variety of sweet pies, cakes, cookies and marzipan is a real gem of German cuisine.

Regional features

In different regions of Germany have traditionally given preference for different foods. For example, in South-West Germany was influenced by French cuisine. Here, like Riesling and snail soup, pasta and bread pudding with cherries and traditional sauerkraut stew with white wine. Popular saddle of roe deer, stuffed pork stomach stew meat in the pot, roast beef with onions. Traditional Swabian cuisine is varied dishes of offal. Also popular dishes from fresh-water lake fish, such as whitefish and perch.

The Rhenish cuisine was influenced by Belgian and Dutch culinary traditions. Roasted horse meat, blood sausage and rye bread rolls with cheese, pancakes, potato pancakes and hearty soups are tasty and original.

Bavarian cuisine has much in common with the Austrian and Czech. There are a lot of heavy pastry dishes, noodles and dumplings are popular all kinds. Bavarian roast, for example, is made from pork with the addition of raw potato dumplings with sauerkraut. Bavaria is famous for beer and sausages are also popular here salty pretzels and liver pate.

In Hesse isstari drink a lot of apple cider, and therefore give preference to the national dishes, which are in harmony with this drink. It is marinated cheese, potatoes with Frankfurt green sauce, brisket with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. In the north of the region like patties with bacon and lard with onions.

Kitchen Franconia famous Lebkuchen, marinated sausages, potato and meat salads. Carp stuffed with jam from the hips, and for dessert serves fragrant coffee and cake firewood grated dough.

In the kitchen a lot of Saxon vegetable dishes, venison dishes, hearty sweets. This region is famous for its confectionery, including borrowed in the Austrian kitchen.

In the Northwest of the country eat a lot of rye bread, root vegetables and fish. Here are preparing thick soups eintopf in which the meat is often combined with fruit; delicate sausage; dish with cabbage and buckwheat.

North-Eastern cuisine is famous for dishes from pork Pork dishes. To eat or not to eat? , Dishes perch, pike and trout. Served traditionally served roots and cucumbers. Here prepare delicious desserts - sweet omelettes, waffle and custard pies, pancakes.

Dessert German

Germany, like neighboring Austria, famous for dessert. Sweets unusually diverse: Air and baking and pastry pies, muffins and dense with fruit and custard pastries and waffles Waffles: could not be easier And marzipan sweets and cakes, and puddings of rice, eggs, flour or starch. Some of these sweets are prepared throughout the year, others (eg, Stoll) has decided in the Christmas holidays.

Shortly before Christmas, all over Germany open markets where you can buy traditional sweet dishes. Many of the sweets are prepared in advance. For example, fruit bread, or Stollen (dense cake with candied fruits, nuts and marzipan) should lie about a month after baking, to acquire the necessary flavor and taste.

Some sweets made from the simplest ingredients. For example, practical German hostess made from stale bread with fruit delicious puddings. And some sweetness quite unexpected in composition, such as custard dark beer.

Traditional sweets are also pies with cheese or fruit, shortbread cookies with nuts, starch puddings and luxurious cakes with nuts and whipped cream. In many desserts added strong flavored alcohol - according to the German pastry, it could not be better emphasizes the flavor of the fruit, almonds or chocolate.

Maria Bykov