The Saxony-Anhalt The cuisine is traditional, down-to-earth, with the influence of the former GDR cuisine dwindling. Saxony-Anhalt is known for its good agriculturally usable soils. Sugar beet and asparagus are grown around Magdeburg, fish and game are found in the Harz Mountains, mushrooms grow in the forests, and wine is grown in the south. The most famous specialties include the Harz roller and Rotkäppchen sparkling wine. A unique specialty is the Würchwitz mite cheese.
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There is an interesting culinary history in Saxony-Anhalt. Garley is the oldest beer brand in the world, it was brewed and bottled until May 2013. Halberstadt sausages were the world's first canned sausages.
dishes
- As Bötel with clay and straw In the area around Magdeburg, pork knuckle is called with pea puree and sauerkraut. The pea puree is the clay, the sauerkraut is the straw.
- Chopped stick is a bound minced meat sauce that is served with mashed potatoes and pickles.
- Ziwwelklump is a stew made from onions, meat (some say, originally only with mutton) and potato dumplings.
- The Koethen shoemaker's pan is a roast pork topped with pears and potatoes
- Loose sausage is also called "Dead Grandma". Black pudding loosened from the skin is fried with chopped onion until it takes on a mushy consistency. It is then served with sauerkraut and boiled potatoes or mashed potatoes
- In the Anhalt region, people like to rice pudding Eaten Bockwurst, braised sausage or bratwurst.
Chopped sticks in dark sauce on mashed potatoes with cucumber fan
- A Hunter schnitzel is usually a centimeter thick slice of hunting sausage or beer ham, breaded and served with a sauce made from tomatoes with onions. Potatoes, potato salad, mashed potatoes, French fries, croquettes or pasta are served as a side dish.
Breaded hunting sausage with mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables
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Jägerschnitzel DDR with tomato sauce and spiral noodles
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Soups
- In the Altmark and some other regions showered, i.e. pancakes sprinkled with sugar are eaten with the sweet and sour green bean soup.
- A Altmark wedding soup is a clear chicken bouillon with a mixture of meatballs, egg custard and asparagus.
cheese
- Mite cheese from Würchwitz is a specialty that not everyone will like. Dried low-fat quark is transformed into a slightly bitter-tasting cheese by mites in wooden boxes.
- 1 Würchwitz mite cheese factory & museum, Sporarer Str. 8, 06712 Würchwitz. Tel.: 49 34426-21346. Open: by appointment.
- harzer cheese is a low-fat sour milk cheese made from low-fat quark and caraway seeds.
A loaf of mite cheese
harzer cheese
sausage
- The Halberstadt sausages were the world's first sausage in a can.
- Rind sausage is a specialty from the Harz region. It is usually eaten with boiled potatoes.
- Pottsuse consists of pork, lard and spices. It is a spread from the Magdeburg Börde and the Harz region in Saxony-Anhalt.
Potty sauce on bread
fish
- The most famous fish of the Arendsees was used in 1892 and originally came from Schleswig-Holstein. The Little whitefish belongs to the salmon fish. It grows to a maximum of 30 cm long and weighs 60 to 100 grams, and is valued for its good taste and few bones. The meat is fatty but smoked a delicacy. At the Arendsee, tasty vendace dishes are prepared in pubs and restaurants, or they can be smoked directly from the fisherman.
Coregonus albula, the whitefish
Sweets
- Sweet tooth are made from a branded milk quark Weissenfels
- The Halloren balls are well-known branded chocolates Hall
- The Tangermünde feeding rod is a chocolate bar from the former consumer-confectionery combine in the GDR. It is being made again in the Klaus-Dieter Stehwien confectionery in Tangermünde.
Halloren balls
Tangermünde feeding rod
- Salzwedeler Baumkuchen has had the EU quality mark Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) since 2010.
- Prills are deep fried pastries
Prilleken with coffee
beverages
sparkling wine
- Rotkäppchen Sektkellerei in Freyburg/ Unstrut has been the manufacturer of the traditional sparkling wine brand Rotkäppchen since 1894.
VEB Rotkäppchen-Sektkellerei, the sparkling wine was also very popular in the GDR
Vibrating panels to collect the yeast in the neck of the bottle
Wine
- The first evidence of viticulture of the Weingust Kloster Pforta can be traced back to the year 998. Today the state winery Kloster Pforta with 50 hectares of vineyards is the largest winery in the Saale-Unstrut wine-growing region, with the sites Pfortenser Köppelberg and Hall houses, the location near Naumburg Naumburg paradise, at Goseck the situation Gosecker Dechantenberg and at Eulau the location Eulaer Heideberg. 10 types of white wine and 6 types of red wine are grown.
- 1 Vinothek school gate in Naumburg. In the gatehouse of the Pforta state school, wine, sparkling wine, apple juice, wine jelly, honey and grape seed oil from the region are on offer.
- 1 Gutsrestaurant Saalhäuser Weinstuben in Bad Kosen . Manor restaurant of the state winery Kloster Pforta between the Saale and the vineyards.
beer
The Hasseröder brewery from Wernigerode is the most famous brewery in Saxony-Anhalt. However, there are also smaller breweries and brewpubs.
Schnapps and liqueurs
- Schierker Feuerstein - herbal bitters from Schierke in the Harz Mountains
Soft drinks
Culinary calendar
Culinary delights are often seasonal. Fruits and vegetables are tastier when they are ripe; meat and fish are also subject to seasonal influences. Every season of the year, festivals are celebrated that have a general theme or focus on certain foods. There are also drinking and eating habits throughout the year that arose from religious traditions such as fasting times.
January
February
March
April
- The Asparagus season starts at the beginning of April, depending on the soil temperature
- In April in the Saale-Unstrut area the Young wine weeks held. The young wine is celebrated on wineries and in ostrich taverns.
May
- Asparagus season
- At Pentecost you can walk between Bad Kösen and Roßbach on the Saale wine mile walk. Winemakers invite you to stop for a break on the 6 kilometers between the two towns.
- The Wednesday after Pentecost is in Halle (Saale), Krosigk and Thaldorf the garlic Wednesday with garlic dishes.
- The first or second (e.g. if May 1st falls on the first weekend of May) May weekend is in Zerbst the Asparagus Festival. It's all about the asparagus and the Zerbster asparagus peeling world champion is determined.
June
- The Asparagus season ends on Midsummer Day, June 24th.
July
August
September
- The in Freyburg takes place on the second weekend in September Wine festival instead of.
October
- On the 3rd Saturday in October there will be 28 locations in the Magdeburg Börde The sweet day held with lots of candy.
- The first weekend in October is in Zerbst the Bollenmarkt. It's all about the onion and the Zerbster Onion Queen is chosen.
November
- Around St. Martin's Day on November 11th, goose dishes are offered as traditional St. Martin's goose food in many inns.
December
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Recipes
If you want to enjoy Saxony-Anhalt cuisine at home, you will find the appropriate recipes in Koch Wiki under Category: Saxony-Anhalter Kitchen. Have fun cooking at home.
