Frankfurt's Green Sauce

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Hessian snack with Frankfurt green sauce

The Frankfurt green sauce


There are regional recipes for the Frankfurt Green Sauce Hessenthat have been handed down in their own families for centuries. One generation passes the recipe on to the next and guards it like a treasure. One of these recipes is the green sauce. Ghosts argue about how the sauce is prepared. As a rule, the recipe is a well-kept family secret, and each family has its own - top secret - ingredient that gives it a very special taste.

The main ingredient of the Frankfurt Green Sauce, however, are these seven herbs: borage, chervil, cress, parsley, burnet, sorrel and chives. In any case, these herbs taste best in May. Then they are fresh and of the best quality. The Frankfurt Green Sauce is even protected by patent law. Only the sauce whose herbs come from 70% can bear the name Frankfurter come from space. The green sauce is also prepared between Easter and the first frosts in autumn.

 

Frankfurter Grüne Sauce - Hessian specialties from the Bauernkueche
It tastes good with salad

 

There are regional differences in the preparation. While the green sauce is around Kassel as in the photo above, it is grass green in the Frankfurt area. This is because the herbs for the green sauce are cut into small pieces in northern Hesse. in the Frankfurter Space, on the other hand, is pureed. It's quick and easy with one Universal shredder* (Advertisement). Chervil, cress or lovage are not used for green sauce in the Kassel area.

Recipe for the Frankfurt green sauce

For 4-5 persons

1 pack of Frankfurt green sauce herbs or a handful of each of parsley, chives, sorrel, chervil, cress, borage and pimpinelle
500 g of yogurt
200 g sour cream or sour cream
3 eggs
2 TL mustard
Lemon or 2 EL vinegar
Salt, pepper, sugar

 

Preparation:

Chop the herbs very finely so that the plant juice comes out. Then it's best to cut it finely with a kitchen knife. The finer, the better the sauce tastes. Then mix the yoghurt and sour cream with the herbs. Then grate the hard-boiled eggs and stir them into the sauce. Finally stir in a dash of lemon or vinegar and season with salt, pepper and sugar.

If you want, you can add other ingredients such as shallots, onions, garlic or mustard and use quark instead of yogurt. This way you can put together your own personal family recipe for the Frankfurt Green Sauce.

The Frankfurt herbal sauce is served with boiled potatoes and hard-boiled eggs. It also tastes good to cooked ox breast, to Tafelspitz or fried fish. We have them on our journey through Hesse as a side dish to one Brotzeitteller cost.

Just try it yourself and cook it at home. We wish you a good appetite!

 

Frankfurt's Green Sauce
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Text: © Copyright Monika Fuchs and TravelWorldOnline
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Frankfurt's Green Sauce

Monika Fuchs

Monika Fuchs and Petar Fuchs are the authors and publishers of the Food and Slow Travel blog  TravelWorldOnline. They have been publishing this blog since 2005. TravelWorldOnline has been online since 2001. Their topics are trips to Savor, wine tourism worldwide and slow travel. During her studies Monika Fuchs spent some time in North America, where she - partly together with Petar Fuchs - traveled to the USA and Canada and spent a research year in British Columbia. This intensified her thirst for knowledge, which she satisfied for 6 years as an adventure guide for Rotel Tours and then for 11 years as a tour guide for Studiosus Reisen around the world. She was constantly expanding her travel regions, but curiosity still gnawed at her: "What's beyond the horizon? What else is there to discover in this city? Which people are interesting here? What do they eat in this region?" As a freelance travel journalist (her articles have appeared in DIE ZEIT, 360° Canada, 360° USA, etc.), she is now looking for answers to these questions as a travel writer and travel blogger in many countries around the world. Petar Fuchs produces the videos on this blog as well as on YouTube. Monika Fuchs from TravelWorldOnline is among Germany's top 50 bloggers in 2021. Find more Information about Monika and Petar Fuchs here.