SWISS SAUSAGE SALAD

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It’s summer today in Berlin with 28 C, time for a Biergarten dish. Schweizer Wurstsalat is a classic dish in south Germany, mostly served outside. And of course also a classic summer dish at casa zwick. Most of you know this dish already, but a classic never get old.

Pre-cooked&lightly smoked sausage is used, like Regensburger, Krakauer or Lyoner. Use a high-quality Mortadella instead. Most importantly before you serve, put it in the fridge for 2-3h, it’s really essential.

Optional you could also add some radish or even 1-2 tsp mustard if you like.



Ingredients

350g pre-cooked sausage (Lyoner, Regensburger, Krakauer, Mortadella)

220g Swiss Emmentaler cheese

100-150g gherkins/cornichons (dill variety), cubed

1 red onion, stripes

5-6 tbsp gherkin water

5-6 tbsp white vinegar

5-6 tbsp sunflower oil

chives




Preparation

  1. Remove the skin from the sausage and chopp it in stripes. Put in a salad bowl.

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  1. Chopp the cheese in stripes and add to the sausage.

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  1. Add the chopped onion stripes to the salad bowl

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  1. Now add the cubed gherkins.

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  1. Add salt&pepper and gherkin water, white vinegar and sunflower oil to the salad. Combine everything and put in the fridge for 2-3h.

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  1. Finally add chopped chives on top. Serve with a baguette, bread or even better with a Bavarian pretzel. ENJOY

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Biergarten weather near Berlin

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Hi Martin!

Could you please clarify what you mean by gherkins? Sweet or the dill variety.

TIA

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Looking forward to seeing Martin’s reply to confirm, but those look like cornichons to me, so not sweet.

Martin - this looks great…definitely adding this to my to-do list here with the warmer months. Thanks for sharing as always.

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Now Martin, if you could just find a furztrocken domestic Mosel to go with that… [wink.gif] [stirthepothal.gif]

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My grandmother-in-law would say that you should wash out your mouth for such dirty words in the morning. haha

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I recommend the dill variety. I used a tarragon variety from France which is hard to find.

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Yes, Cornichons. I had some leftover of the Salad yesterday and I added some german big gherkins (dill variety), worked too.

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Mmm, Schweizer Wurstsalat, yummy! (Not really any salad in that salad though.)

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P.S.

It‘s called Swiss Sausage Salad because of the Swiss Emmentaler cheese. There are versions without cheese then it is called Sausage Salad.