Bavarian potato salad (Bayrischer Kartoffelsalat)
For 4 Persons you need:
- (1 kg) potatoes
- 1 onion
- (50 ml) very strong beef stock
- 4 tablespoons vinegar
- 4 tablespoons cooking oil
- a half cucumber
- some fresh parsley (shreded)
- some fresh chives (shreded)
- salt and pepper
Boil the potatoes for about half an hour and then rinse with cold water.
Peel the potatoes and cut them into slices. Dice the onion and add it to the potatoes.
Mix the strong beef stock with the vinegar, the cooking oil, the parsley and the chives. Pour this mixture over the potoatoes.
Let this rest for about 15 minutes, then dice the cucumber and add it. Season with salt and pepper.
Tip:
You need strong beef stock, it has to spice the potato salad.
Well suited to:
- Fish meals
- Any sort of fried or grilled sausage
- Any grilled meat
Regions:
The name tells it already, this is the Bavarian version of potato salad.
Bernadette on 04 Jun 2008 at 1:41 pm #
My mother is from the Bayern region of Germany and I’ve never had potato salad prepared as is above. I would like to submit our recipe for Bavarian Potato Salad if possible.
Tanya on 28 Nov 2008 at 2:51 pm #
Bernadette, could you please share the recipe with me? Once I was in Landshut, Bayern and tasted the potato salad. That was one of the tastiest things ever! my mail is t.nizhnik at gmail.com
Thank you!
Amanda on 03 Jan 2009 at 1:51 pm #
I am American, but my husband is from Bavaria, near Abensberg. This recipe is RIGHT ON, exactly. Except he slices, not dices, the cucumbers. The best potato salad I’ve ever had in my life. And I’ve had lots.
Rita on 04 Jul 2009 at 9:24 pm #
I am from Bavaria, on the southern tip of Starnberger See (Seeshaupt). My other Grandmother is from Riegsee, near Murnau. We love our potato salad as it is a staple in our family. I just wanted to reply to this recipe because we never have heard of using cucumbers in potato salad. Where’d they get this idea? There is a separate version of gurkinsalat (cucumber salad), which is marinated in its juices with vinegar. It’s good too, but the kartofelsalat is the BEST!