One of the best things about America’s melting pot of culture is that we can experience so many different cultures’ foods. But while we have fast food knock-offs of practically every international cuisine, it’s much better to try the homemade versions.
Restaurants and fast food just can’t capture the true essence of a culture the way a homemade recipe does. That’s why we’re lucky to work with many bloggers who provide RecipeLion.com with seriously amazing international recipes.
German recipes are among the most popular on our site, thanks largely to Gerhild from Quick German Recipes. (Thanks for sharing, Gerhild!) She shares many of her mother’s recipes from the old country, and preserves culinary history every day! One of our most popular German recipes ever is hosted right here on RecipeChatter: German Cucumber Salad.
Give some of this global cuisine a try, and expand your food experience with our collection of recipes from Germany. We easy German desserts, slow cooker dishes, and more!
12 German Recipes
- Anna’s Slow Cooker German Goulash
- Easiest German Pancake
- Carmelized Apple German Pancake
- 30-Minute Cheesy German Soup
What’s your favorite German food?
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please send me a free recipe book thank you
Hi Kathy, We have a wide variety of free eCookbooks across our sites. Just browse through them to find the ones you like! 🙂
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I am so thrilled to find a source for German recipe’s! I married a man of German parentage plus, my eldest grandchild, a boy, majored in German and loves “everything German” and is starting to play chef himself! Would love to have the recipes! Thank you!
I am looking for a recipe that is for marinated pork steak or fatty pork chops that we were able to get at a German meat dept. of a local grocery store in Ramstein Village. It was called Schweinbraten and we cooked on the grill. It was the pork and it was marinated in onions, vinegar, peppercorn and something else but have not been able to find the recipe in any cookbooks with German food recipes. If someone knows of this recipe I would greatly appreciate getting the direction so I can cook here in the states.
We were stationed in Germany for 4 yrs and would love to have this recipe. Thank you very much.
Karen Stone
It’s called Schwenkbraten!
4 lbs porkshoulder,
1 tsp white pepper, 1 tsp freshly ground nutmeg, 1 pinch coriander, 1tsp paprika, 1pinch marjoram, 1 pinch salt
1 org onion
2 cloves garlic
Debone pork, cut into 1/2 inch steaks. Mix white pepper, nutmeg, coriander, paprika, marjoram and salt.
Mince garlic and onions. Sprinkle a large pan with seasoning. Sprinkle some salt over onions to make juice come out before starting marinade.
On top of seasoning put one layer of meat, add more seasoning, onions, garlic and salt. Repeat until all meat is used, ending with seasoning and onions.
Cover with aluminum foil and let sit in refrigerator at least overnight.
During grilling baste with a mixture of oil, beer and brandy.
I grow up in Germany and my Oma (grandmother) use to bake a cake that just consisted of rice and some other ingredients that do not know about. On the outside of the cake the crust was real thin. I do not know if that was one of the cakes they made during the war when they could not get a lot of grocery’s. I would ask her but she has passed away several years ago. My mother or aunts can not remember what ingredients go in the cake. If you or some one out there remembers it please please send me the recipe. Thank you so much