Currywurst is a street food in Germany, paticularly in Berlin.
It started out with a bit of serendipity, a lady
named Herta Heuwer was trying to survive, and thinking if she
had a wonderful new and exciting street food she could sell she would find a good market. It makes sense
as there were plenty of construction workers rebuilding Berlin after the war and soldiers from Britan and the US were stationed there.
Herta traded some spirits for an exciting new spice she discovered that the British soldiers called curry. She mixed this with some of the
catsup that was definitely an American thing at the time. She then added her touches to make it that winner she was looking for. It soon
became a sensation in Germany and grew to be an international success. If you haven't tried it, you out to, it is unique and a keeper.
Gather your ingredients, measure out the curry, paprikas red pepper flakes and cloves. Have everything handy and ready.
Saute the onions in 2 tblsp vegetable or
olvie oil
This was an after-thought, I thought didn't read this in some of the recipes I researched but I thought it would go well in the catsup.
Add the curry powder, and curry paste, cloves and both the paprikas
Add the tomato sauce, catsup, applesauce and bring to a simmer.
You can serve with it with fries or German Potato Salad
Choose your sausage. This is a bratwurst with curry seasoning
Score the sausages.
by making some diagonal cuts, but only halif way down and at a slight angle.
This is how they look
All the Currywurst shops shallow fry their sausage
Add a little oil to a skillet and fry on medium heat, turning gently. The sausages will open up slightly where you have scored them.
I put my catsup in an empty catsup bottle but to have it squeeze smoothly you will need to blend it in a food processor.
I made a little dressing with a bit of the mayo, curry catsup and some of the sauted bacon and onion.
I wanted to "green up" the potato salad so I blended the potato salad with some greens (kale and Iceberg lettuce) and the dressing.
Here I plated the currywurst with some of the sauce. and ribboned the wurst with a bit of sauce. As traditional I sprinkled the wurst with curry powder. This has the greened up potato salad.
Another popular choice to serve Currywurst with is German Potato Salad.
The most common way to serve currywurst is with fries
More traditional is to cut up the sausage into nice rounds and cover them in sauce, and of course sprinkle it with colorful
curry powder.
Video's of making Currywurst
How To Make Original Berlin Currywurst At Home
This is a great video by a Berliner that gives a bit of background and helps
you to make sausage and curry catsup in your kitchen authentically.
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What to look for in Sausage making. First of all if you are going to do any volume you want to make sure you have a strong motor.
Some are under a thousand watts and some are up to 2000 watts. It is good for most of the parts to be metal and stainless steel if possible however certain things like the grinding plates are a little thick to be all stainless. Just make sure you clean them properly.
These are preferred by many Bratwurst makers as they are more tender than the hog casing. You need to read up on how to work with them. If you read the negative reviews they seem like folks didn't know how to use them very well.
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