Savoring Tradition: Irresistible German Potato Salad! 🥔🇩🇪
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Everybody loves german Potato Salad! Now find out how you can do it at your home! Delicious, Authentic, German!
Recipe:
1 Onion
500 ml Beef (or vegetable) Stock
100 ml Vinegar (Apple or White Wine Vinegar)
Salt, Pepper to taste a little bit of sugar
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Its fascinating how potato salad is so different region to region, and even family to family within the region. My mom grew up in Baden-Württemberg so we would always have the schwäbischer version, her parents were from Dresden so we would occasionally have the mayo version. Not too long ago a family friend was visiting from Germany and made the apple cider version which was much better than white vinegar. We are now an apple cider vinegar family lol! Her assembly is a bit different too, she will layer, add the dressing, layer add more, and layer more dressing. This is to keep mixing to a minimum in order to keep the shape of the of potatoes. Either way this is my favorite style of potato salad!
Now that's interesting. I've never heard of an apple cider version. I think I'll have to do some research on this. I grew up in Ba-Wü living in Bavaria and must say that I don't see any real difference in the overall concept. Just the fact that every potato salad tastes different when it's made by different people.
Love the Guzzle in between
So do I 😅
I had a student holiday job (From England) when I was 16/17 about 40km East of Munich in a Dorf called Lengdorf. I had my first German food including the potato salad in Friedel's Gasthof/Brauerei and have been hooked on German food ever since - I'm 70 now - with beer in hand Flo, and off to the kitchen to bash some pork fillet for a Schnitzel . Prost.
Prost to you! What kind of a holiday job did you get in Lengsdorf? That sounds quite interesting!
Enjoy your Schnitzel! And your beer of course! 🍺
@@FlosGermanKitchen Much more fun than interesting. My brother and I worked (accommodation included) for a building firm called M. Holnburger's Baugeschäft in Lengdorf. Given our ages at the time we were just given jobs labouring but became friends with his sons (and in the 'local' pub) Very very fond memories and everyone was so friendly. Back then there were agencies that advertised short term holiday jobs abroad in the schools & colleges for language students in various countries and is how we ended up in a small but lovely place like Lengdorf.
@@deltapafox3103Guess the pub made most of the good memories 😇
@@FlosGermanKitchen About 40% was in Friedel's pub - the rest was the boss's family and his eldest son Ulrich Holnburger who took us all over the place showing off the area and the Lengdorf people there generally.
Hey Flo! Made this with your recipe for pounded out schnitzel from pork, which came out both crispy and tender. You were right about the intensity of the vinegar and beef broth marinade and how it needs to be added a little at a time to the potatoes in order to taste authentic. My cucumber salad needs some work though. But overall I think I could impress some German guests or at least my friends from Wisconsin who regularly cook German fare! Thanks for all the recipes and tips!
I love to hear you're succeeding!
Cheers 🍻
Wunderbar
I so enjoyed the potato salad. I'm sure my grandma made it your
way. It was so delicious .
I was very young when she passed away approximately 11 years old. I am so glad I found your Channel as I love the German touch for tasty dishes the way you are cooking them. I am 100% Deutsch❤
Keeping traditions and heritage is a way to honor those, gone. Im glad my recipe brought back happy memories to you!
Hello Flo!
I found your channel today!
Excellent recipe! Reminds me the time I was in Vienna attending several training courses for AUA. In that time I use to eat a lot of German potato salad with schnitzel. Yummy Yummy 😋
Today I’m going to prepare it myself. Thank you very much for your video. All the best wishes from Torquay Devon the English Riviera,
Mena 🇬🇧🇷🇴🤗👍❤️💁♀️
I'm happy you enjoy it! Just always take care, the Salad makes the right sound 🙂
Genau so...👍🤗
Genau, many varieties
Fantastic! Im eager to try this. Would love to see you make beef rouladen!
I promise, i will! But I try to stick with traditional german seasons so I might do that in fall/winter as Rouladen in Germany is a more 'wintery' meal, often served with Rotkraut (red cabbage) and dumplings.
Enjoy the potato salad! That works all year long :-)
@@FlosGermanKitchen I will eagerly await the winter season then! Best of luck your with your channel.
Thanks, working hard. Soon to come: Schnitzel :-) Goes fantastic with the potato salad in this video.
@@chrissickle6001 And here we go!
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I’ve watched so many southern German potato salad recipes on TH-cam, and or written recipes on Google. This is the only one that actually speaks to my sense of what it needs to taste like. I’m making this recipe for sure. Thanks!
And don't forget to let the salad 'speak' to you for the right consistency!
Cheers
Flo
That potato sound is the equivalent to the American sound of macaroni and cheese, lol.
Macaroni and cheese... mmmh. Makes me think of shooting a Video on Kässpätzle 😋
I love German food and I love your energy and personable style. If there's any German fried chicken or chicken breast recipes you have, I would love to see them
So far on the chicken side i can offer you my Oktoberfest Roast chicken. How about that?
Thanks for sharing. I live in kansas usa from German immigrants late 1860 but really nobody knows their way of life, including recipes. It'll be fun trying an sharing your recipes.
Maybe you want to invite some friends and cook a german dinner together. Not many things in life are as enjoyable as cooking and eating together.
Love it!
Me too :-)
Hello Flo! Found your channel yesterday and am loving your presentations! I would love for you to show us how to make; kartoffelpuffer, kroketten, a salat teller, and a variety of sauces for schnitzel like paprike, rahm and jager! We lived in Germany for 3 years and fell in love with your country and food. Thank you!
Thank you very much! I will definitely shoot a video on making Reiberdatschi (Bavarian for Kartoffelpuffer)
My grand parents on both sides of my family were of Czechoslovakia heritage and were amazing cooks and this brings back some of the amazing smells coming from there kitchens.
That sounds nice. There is a lot of common ground as the influence of eastern european cuisine travelled, mostly through Austria.
Sehr Vus! I’m Australian and lived in Oberpfalz and I always wondered how this was made. My German wife didn’t know either;) thanks and Habidere!
Obapfoiz! Nice 😃 What got you there?
I made this and it's exactly like the one I recently tried at a German restaurant in in London 😊
Must be a great restaurant, then 😃
Cheers 🍻
Hi Flo, I just discovered your channel after my daughter requested a German-style potato salad. However, I prefer the Bavarian style what you made, keep up the good work mate.
I'm definitely a Southerner so for me this is the "real" Potato salad. But there is many varieties so everyone can choose what they like.
Exactly my parents grandparents were from swabian area Germany 🇩🇪iam making it for a side of my Easter ham ... natürlich sehr gute 😉✌️♥️
That's cool, making a dish with such a rich family history. Enjoy your Easter ham with that special touch!
Cheers 🍻
Great! How was it?
Cheers
Flo 🍺
Flo, great job - just subscribed - we had a wonderful dish at Anna aus Praha Gasthaus, she called it Spaetzle Duppel gebakt - it was a Spaetzle casserole mit Schinken, Zwiebeln, und Kase. If, you are familiar with it, I think that would make a great video
Thank you! I haven't heard of that dish so far but it could be a variety of Kässpätzle. I will definitely make a video on that one day.
This looks good! I will try this weekend. Thanks Flo.
Hope you enjoyed it!
Guten Abend Flo, can you specify more of the mustard?
Honestly there's not much to specify in that case. It's just some standard mustard. In germany we call it "Mittelscharfer Senf". So nothing fancy, just take what's at hand.
Good Old regular Colman’s did it for me. But you need to pick your potatoes wisely those red, big, hard ones work better
Servus Flo!
New sub here. I am going to make your schnitzel and potato salad for my family. I have one question though, is the potato salad served hot or cold? Here in the US, we refrigerate our potato salad before serving. Also do you serve anything else with it, like a green vegetable or some bread?
Usually we don't refrigerate the potato salad. The potatos naturally chill to room temperature as the salad needs to rest for a while to marinade. Ant room temperature is just perfect.
As for green stuff, yes there is always the option to serve lettuce with the Schnitzel and the potato salad. My favorite combination is the one they also serve at Figlmüller in Vienna. They serve a lambs lettuce with a vinaigrette of pumpkin seed oil. That's fantastic!
@@FlosGermanKitchen Flo, thank you the answers - I made your pork loin schnitzel and potato salad it was a huge hit. Even my kids who are very picky were feasting on it. I also saw somewhere that Austrians like cucumber salad with sour cream and vinegar so I made that as well. Do you guys make that up north?
Thanks again!
@@aragorn1ring Yes there is a pretty similar kind of cucumber salad in Germany. Some people also add cucumber slices to their potato salad to 'freshen' it up a little but personally I wouldn't do that because i do like the heartyness of my potato salad.
Traveling in Germany decades ago, I loved a potato salad that was very balanced in its sweetness/sourness, served cold, potatoes sliced as you had done in this video. The dressing was clear & the potatoes a creamy white. I've tried to recreate it, including with something like the recipe you demonstrate but the beef broth prevents that very white color. Any suggestions?
Hey Susan, I'm wondering a bit. The only potato salad I know that's "creamy white" would be the northern way that contains mayo in the dressing or maybe it had to do with the kind of potatoes that were used. Your referring to a balance of sweet and sour points more to the direction of northern Germany as in the kind that we eat in the south there are no sweet components at all. Guess that doesn't help you a lot, though. 😳
@FlosGermanKitchen Thanks for answering. There was no mayo; just vinaigrette, silky (not creamy) in texture. Perhaps it was as you made it but without beef broth. Maybe just a vinegar solution. The potatoes were still white. I had it most often in cafeteria-style restaurants.
Ah, well, now I'm inspired to try making it myself, to try and recreate the flavors I recall! Thank you so much. I'll continue watching your channel.
@@SusanRobbins Sorry I couldn't help but once you found out how it was made exactly, why not share it here?
Similar to how I make it, but I add bacon bits for a smokey flavor!
Oh, you can absolutely do that, especially when you want to make vegans stay away from your parties 😂
How much weight in potatoes did you use?
Must have been around 1.5 Kilo. Good thing is, that you don't really need exact measures. Use as many potatoes as you need for you, your family or guests and just add the sauce bit by bit until the salad starts "schwätzen".
@@FlosGermanKitchen It’s done, came out amazing. Thanks
@@johnweimer3249 Great! Love to read that!
Cheers 🍻
Flo
🙂
Intensely German
In the best way 🙂
I like bacon in mine
That definitely is an option, especially when you want to scare off vegans 😂
Where is your crispy bacon??!!!
There are a lot of varieties of potato salad. Some with added cucumbers, some with bacon, in northern Germany they even prepare the sauce with mayonnaise.
The one i share here is the traditional swabian/bavarian plain potato salad that does not contain bacon.
Does that mean you can not add bacon without being arrested by the potato salad police? Nope. There is no potato salad police 😎and for me, cooking is never a subject of strictly following recipes. I think in my whole life i never cooked a meal by strictly following a recipe with exact measurements and amounts. I always take recipes as an inspiration an then recompose them to my personal taste. That is, what makes cooking a creative work. If it was about following recipes, chefs could be replaced by robots.
I grew up in Bavaria and we never added bacon. For my American husband I had to add boiled eggs and pickles and of course mayonnaise but no onions 😂
I don't like any salad or BBQ sauce that's made with vinegar.
Well… then I don’t like you
So all it is is potatoes and vinegar. I have had much better potato salad there.
Thank's for your valuable input. Enjoy my channel! 🥨🍺