German
Frikadellen (German Pan-Fried Beef Patties)
Frikadellen (German Pan-Fried Beef Patties) is German home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1 stale bread roll
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1.5 lb ground beef
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped
- 1 pinch ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
How to cook it
- Soak the bread roll in the milk for 5 minutes until softened, then squeeze out the excess liquid.
- In a large bowl, combine the ground beef, softened bread, onion, egg, mustard, parsley, nutmeg, salt, and pepper, and mix gently with your hands until just combined.
- Shape the mixture into 8 oval patties, about 3/4 inch thick.
- Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat and fry the patties for 5 to 6 minutes per side, until deeply browned and cooked through.
- Drain briefly on paper towels and serve warm, or chill and eat cold on bread the next day the way Germans do with leftovers.
Serve it with
A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Frikadellen (German Pan-Fried Beef Patties), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Frikadellen (German Pan-Fried Beef Patties) carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Backfisch (Pan-Fried Breaded Plaice) |
| Gluten | Yes | Bratkartoffeln (German Pan-Fried Potatoes) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Abendbrot-Teller mit Putenschinken (Cold Evening Bread Plate with Turkey Ham) |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish, Grains, and Egg
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Frikadellen (German Pan-Fried Beef Patties) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on beef, bread, egg, and onion.
From the same kitchens
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Does the same job on the plate
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Cook this with your whole family
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