German
Quark mit Fruechten (Quark with Fresh Fruit)
Quark mit Fruechten (Quark with Fresh Fruit) is German home cooking, eaten at breakfast 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 cup quark (soft fresh curd cheese)
- 2 tbsp whole milk
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1/2 cup fresh strawberries, sliced
- 1/4 cup fresh blueberries
How to cook it
- Spoon the quark into a bowl.
- Stir in the milk until smooth and creamy.
- Sweeten with the honey.
- Top with the sliced strawberries and blueberries.
- Serve right away, chilled; Quark is a huge-volume everyday staple in German kitchens, eaten this way on an ordinary weekday morning or as a light evening bite.
Serve it with
A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Quark mit Fruechten (Quark with Fresh Fruit), 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. Quark mit Fruechten (Quark with Fresh Fruit) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Backfisch (Pan-Fried Breaded Plaice) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| 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
- Light
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Dairy and Fruit
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Quark mit Fruechten (Quark with Fresh Fruit) takes about 5 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on quark, strawberry, and blueberry.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from Germany.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.