I'm starting off a
German food week, which I unofficially call the “Novemberfest”,
as I've been making many of my favourite German dishes lately.
Germans have many suitable dishes especially for this season, so I
thought that this is a perfect time to share some of them with you.
All my dishes will be of course vegetarian, but they will even be
mostly vegan or very easy to veganise. I hope you'll be following
this special week.
I lived nearly ten
years in Cologne, Germany, where I studied at the university.
Students don't have such a great budget for eating out, but I got
well acquainted with many German dishes during that time, including
some excellent traditional homecooking and baking. I moved from
Germany to the UK in 2007, so I've been away for quite a while
notwithstanding a few visits. This year I was lucky enough to be able
to travel twice to Cologne on business. Then I could go to my old
doorstep and quarter and also eat some local food.
The first recipe
in this German food week is for Laugenbrötchen aka pretzel rolls. I
just love the flavour of pretzel rolls, and they are nice with just a
little butter and cheese. You can make a more premium version with
tomato and mozzarella as well. If you're a regular reader, you might
already know how I like baking different savoury rolls. I haven't
made pretzel rolls for a long while, but making them now again
reminded me of their goodness.
I have already
published a recipe for Laugenbrötchen on my blog, so I will just
link the recipe here, if you want to have a look at the
details.
Do you have any
vegetarian or vegan German food favourites?
Have a nice
weekend!
Your VegHog
These look delicious - I love buying pretzels from our farmers market but - shhh - yours look even nicer. I would be interested to hear about your german food recipes because I am not so familiar with it - though I think my german colleagues told me to put lots of mustard in salads - does that sound right?
ReplyDeleteThey do use a lot of mustard, but I don't remember it from salads. I'm not such a fan of mustard, so maybe i wasn't paying attention at the right time.
Deletehi veghog
ReplyDeletei don't make much german food except sauerkraut and german chocolate cake. your pretzels look great!
That's a great start for German cooking and maybe I can inspire you for further experiments. :)
DeleteActually, "German" chocolate cake (the one with coconut-pecan frosting) is an American dish originally made with the brand of chocolate invented in the mid-19th century by a man named "German." But VegHog is doing a great job of presenting dishes from Germany like Laugen rolls and spaetzle!
Deletebest... mae at maefood.blogspot.com