Recipes for Authentic German Salads

Creamy Cucumber Salad
Creamy Cucumber and Sweet Onion Salad with Fresh Dill Horseradish Dressing
Red Cabbage Salad with Bavarian Smoked Cheese (Rotkohlsalat mit Räucherkäse)
German Potato Salad
Chef Alahverdian's German-Style Potato Salad
Bierwurst and New Potato Salad
New Potato and Bierwurst Salad with Mustard Cream Dressing
Spaetzle Salad
Spaetzle Salad
Potato Salad Berlin Style (Berliner Kartoffelsalat)
Kitchen Cookware
Sweet and Savory Bologna Salad
Kitchen Cookware
Beet Salad with Horseradish Vinaigrette
Purple Potato Salad
Purple Potato Salad with Pickled Herring and Herbed Double Cream
Spring Beet Salad
Watercress Beet Salad
Salad with Gorgonzo and Red Wine Jelly
Mixed Salad with Blue Cheese and Red Wine Jelly Mustard Vinaigrette
Happy Gardener's Salad
Happy Gardener's Salad (Salat der fröhlichen Gärtnerin)
Asparagus and Salmon Salad
Asparagus Salad with Salmon (Spargel-Lachs-Salat)
Frankfurter Potato Salad Carneval
Frankfurter & Potato Salad "Carneval" (Würstchen und Kartoffelsalat "Karneval")
Sesame Spaetzle Salad
Sesame Spaetzle Salad with Red Cabbage, Snow Peas and Sweet Bell Pepper
Lingonberry-Merlot Dressing
A Salad with Steak that is Kid Friendly
Steak Salad
Celery Root Salad
Celery Root Salad (Selleriesalat)
Kool Kraut Salad
Cool Kraut Salad
Green Asparagus Salad and Bread
Grilled Asparagus and Beet Salad with Honey Mustard
White Bean Pea Salad
White Bean and Pea Salad with Prosciutto
Bavarian Radish Salad with VInaigrette
Bavarian Radish Salad in Vinaigrette (Radi und Radieschen)
Northern Composed Salad
Northern German Composed Salad
Herring salad
German-Style Herring Salad
Asparagus with Black Forest Ham
White Asparagus with Black Forest Ham
Watermelon Feta Salad with Fresh Mint
Deutschlaender Pasta Salad
Deutschländer Pasta Salad (Deutschländer Nudelsalat)
Pickled Beet and Sweet Onion Salad
Pickled Roasted Beets and Sweet Onion Salad
Red Cabbage Orange Salad (Rotkohl-Orangen Salat)
Kitchen Cookware
Nürnberger Radish Bratwurst Salad
Colorful Summer Salad
Colorful Summer Salad (Bunter Sommersalat)
Schwetzingen Asparagus Salad (Schwetzinger Spargelsalat)
Warm Spargel, Arugula and Pesto Salad
Warm Asparagus Salad with Wild Garlic Pesto (Lauwarmer Spargelsalat mit Bärlauchpesto)
German Potato Salad
German Potato and Lentil Salad (Kartoffellinsensalat)

Asparagus Salad with Salmon
White asparagus with a raspberry vinegar dressing are topped with salmon and oamished with dill in this celebration of spring flavors.

Bavarian Radish Salad in Vinaigrette
A typical Oktoberfest with fresh healthy radishes that goes well with a crunchy
pretzel and a heatyy beer.

Celerv Root Salad
A simple dressed salad of julienned celery root, the knobby brown-skinned vegetable also known as celeriac, with a bite of bite from German mustard and chives.

Colorful Summer Salad
A salad which is as stunning as it is delicious!The cucumbers and bell peppers provide crisp textures.the eggs give the salad great substance, the mush rooms add an earthy aroma and the fresh herbs provide wonderful flavor and depth.

Cool Kraut Salad
A red cabbage salad with a sweet and pungent dressing, packed with flavor and nutrients. Fresh red cabbage, radicchio and red onions contrast with preserved vegetables. Quick and easy, too!

Creamy Cucumber and Sweet Onion Salad with Fresh Dill Horseradish
This refreshing salad combines great flavors and colors. The fresh herbs taste of summer and the horseradish adds a nice spicy note.

Deutschlaender Pasta Salad
Easy and delicious all year long: pasta salad with Deutschlaender sausages

Field Greens with Smoked Eel & Bacon- Mustard Vinaigrette
A slightly adapted version of a recipe by German Master Chef Marcel Biro, this recipe combines field greens with smoked eel, creme fraiche, cherry tomatoes, and a bacon mustard vinaigrette.

Frankfurter & Potato Salad “Carneval”
Variation of a classic potato salad with blue cheese and marinated sun-dried tomatoes.

German Potato and Lentil Salad
Potatoes and lentils pair with German flavors like Bavarian beer vinegar in this summer salad. Perfect for a barbecue side dish.

German Potato Salad (Berlin Style)
Classic German potato salad, mixing in the flavor and crunch of cucumber, pickles, bacon .onions and herbs, with a mustard vinaigrette dressing.

German White Bean & Pea Salad with Proscuitto & Smoked Cheese
A nutritious , colorful, German salad full of tasty ingredients, quick and easy to put together. Serve with German wholegrain crispbread or sunflower seed bread.

German-Style Herring Salad
A colorful herring salad with apples in a sour-cream dressing, served over mesclun, adapted from a dish served at SZMANIA’s Restaurant.Recipe courtesy of Chef Ludger Szmania.

German-Style Potato Salad
A classic German potato salad, dressed with vinegar, bacon , shallots and herbs instead of mayonnaise.

German-Style Potato Salad (2)
A vinaigrette of German flavors such as bacon. shallots, parsley and mustard infuses the potatoes in this German-style potato salad.

Grilled Asparagus and Beet Salad with Honey Mustard
A healthy, tasty salad of grilled asparagus spears, beets, prosciutto, crumbled cheese and pine nuts with mixed greens and honey mustard dressing . Serve with German fitness bread for a great light meal.

Happy Gardener’s Salad
With a somewhat unusual combination of vegetables and flavors, this salad gorgeous salad will wake up your taste buds.

Little Red Radish Salad
This delightful summer salad combines little red radishes and tart apples, with bits of Emmentaler cheese and a yogurt dressing.

Matjes Herring Salad in Yogurt Sauce
Marinated herring in a creamy mayonnaise and vanilla yogurt sauce with German pickles.

Mushroom & Spinach Strudel Salad With Gewürztraminer Vinaigrette
Mushroom, herb and spinach filled strudel, served with a mesclun salad dressed with German white wine vinaigrette and garnished with raspberries. Recipe adapted for CMA by Chef Marcel Biro.

New Potato and Bierwurst Salad with Mustard Cream Dressing
A new potato salad with the flavors of apple, lemon, German sausages, pickles, and dill in a creamy dressing.

Northern German Composed Salad
A German version of Salad Nicoise, with fresh vegetables, and German cheese, fish, and pickles, to serve at lunch or as a light supper.

Odette’s Potato Salad
A version of German potato salad adding cherry tomatoes, chives, scallions, and chopped German pickle. This fresh interpretation is named after a busy working mother from Bavaria.

Pepper Brie and Radicchio Salad
Peppery radicchio combines with German peppered brie cheese in this colorful salad dressed with a wine white German mustard honey dressing. Recipe courtesy of Roz Denny, Modern German Cooking .

Pickled Beet and Sweet Onion Salad
A colorful and nutritious winter salad of pickled roasted beets and onions over salad greens.

Red Cabbage Salad with Bavarian Smoked Cheese
A colorful side salad composed of red cabbage, onion, green pepper, poppy seeds and smoked Bavarian cheese. A light supper when served with sliced cold German meats.

Schwetzingen Asparagus Salad
A spring salad of tender asparagus with a creamy green herb dressing topped with finely chopped egg.

Sesame Spaetzle Salad with Red cabbage. Snow Peas and Sweet Bell Pepper
A German East-West dish that’s great as a side or salad entree. Tasty as leftovers, too. Recipe by Jackie Newgent.

Spaetzle Salad
German version of pasta salad using spaetzle, summer vegetables, and a light vinaigrette.Perfect at a summer barbecue.

Spring Beet Salad
A salad of watercress. beets, soft-ripened German cheese and a light walnut oil vinaigrette . Perfect with a thin sandwich of hearty German bread and Black Forest ham .

Warm Asparagus Salad with Wild Garlic Pesto
Warm asparagus are arranged over fresh arrugula leaves and topped with a wild garlic pesto dressing .

Warm Heart of Romaine Salad with Roquefort & Prosciutto Vinaigrette
Browned prosciutto and garlic flavor the vinaigrette that warms the greens and Roquefort blue cheese in this salad. Adapted from a dish created by Chef Ludger Szmania.

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