German
Quarkkeulchen (Pan-Fried Quark and Potato Fritters)
Quarkkeulchen (Pan-Fried Quark and Potato Fritters) is German home cooking, eaten at 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
- 2 cups quark (or well-drained cottage cheese)
- 1 cup mashed potato, cooked and cooled
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 cup raisins
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 tbsp powdered sugar, for dusting
How to cook it
- In a large bowl, mix the quark, mashed potato, egg, sugar, and cinnamon until smooth.
- Stir in the flour and raisins until just combined into a thick, scoopable batter.
- Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat and drop the batter in by the spoonful, flattening each into a small patty.
- Fry the patties for 3 to 4 minutes per side, until golden brown and cooked through.
- Drain briefly on paper towels, dust generously with the powdered sugar, and serve warm.
Serve it with
A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Quarkkeulchen (Pan-Fried Quark and Potato Fritters), 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. Quarkkeulchen (Pan-Fried Quark and Potato Fritters) 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
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Dairy, Vegetables, Egg, and Grains
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Quarkkeulchen (Pan-Fried Quark and Potato Fritters) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at 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 quark, potato, egg, and flour.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from eastern 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.
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