List of German Dishes - Famous Dishes - Bremen and Lower Saxony

Bremen and Lower Saxony

See also: Lower Saxon cuisine, Bremen, and Lower Saxony
Name Image Type Description
Birnen, Bohnen und Speck Main course A dish of pears, beans and bacon, invariably accompanied by potatoes.
Bratwurst Snack A grey sausage with veal content that has a mild flavor, is pan-fried and then eaten with a hard roll.
Braunkohl Side dish see Grünkohl below
Braunschweiger Snack An internationally known sausage that is spread on toast or used in sandwiches.
Bremer Kükenragout Main course A ragout made from different kinds of meat and seafood as well as vegetables; may contain no chicken and if it does it's meat from very young chicken.
Brunswick Mum Beverage An ancient beer from Brunswick.
Butterkuchen Cake A sheet cake made from yeast dough topped with blops of butter and sugar.
Calenberger Pfannenschlag Snack Groats that are broiled and eaten with potatoes or on bread with various other side dishes, e.g. pickles or red beet; special kind of Knipp.
Pinkel mit Grünkohl Main course A dish made from slowly cooked kale that is served with Pinkel, a rather salty sausage.
Kassler Main course A slowly cooked salted pork dish that is usually served with Knödel and Sauerkraut or potato salad.
Kluntjes Candy Sugar crystals that are used as sweetener for tea.
Knipp Snack or Main course Broiled groat sausage.
Labskaus Snack or Main course A dish made from corned beef, herring, mashed potatoes, and beetroot, served with a fried egg and a pickled cucumber.
Nordseekrabben/Nordseegarnelen Snack or Main course Prawns from the North sea.
Pottwurst Snack Another kind of Knipp.
Räucheraal Main course or snack Smoked eel that is used as ingredient in various dishes.
Sauerkraut Side dish Shredded cabbage that is naturally fermented by lactic bacteria.
Schlachteplatte Snack A dish with a variety of meats usually eaten as second breakfast.
Spargel Side dish Asparagus that is eaten as a delicacy, commonly with potatoes and Sauce hollandaise.
Steckrübeneintopf Main course A hearty stew made from rutabaga, carrot and potato.
Welf pudding Dessert A sweet two-layer pudding invented by a royal chef with one layer of vanilla-based and one of wine-based pudding.

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