German
Reibekuchen mit Apfelmus (Potato Pancakes with Applesauce)
Reibekuchen mit Apfelmus (Potato Pancakes with Applesauce) is German home cooking, eaten at dinner and lunch. 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 lb potatoes, peeled
- 1 small onion
- 1 egg
- 3 tbsp all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 pinch ground nutmeg
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil, for frying
- 1.5 cups applesauce, for serving
How to cook it
- Grate the potatoes and onion coarsely, then wrap them in a clean kitchen towel and wring out as much liquid as possible.
- Mix the grated potato and onion with the egg, flour, salt, and nutmeg until well combined.
- Heat a generous layer of oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat and drop in spoonfuls of the mixture, flattening each into a thin pancake.
- Fry for 3 to 4 minutes per side, until deeply golden and crisp at the edges, adding more oil between batches as needed.
- Drain the pancakes briefly on paper towels.
- Serve hot, topped with a generous spoonful of applesauce; this is a genuine everyday vegetarian weeknight dinner in western Germany and beyond.
Serve it with
A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Reibekuchen mit Apfelmus (Potato Pancakes with Applesauce), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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What it is eaten with
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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. Reibekuchen mit Apfelmus (Potato Pancakes with Applesauce) carries gluten and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| 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
- Vegetables, Egg, Grains, and Fruit
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Reibekuchen mit Apfelmus (Potato Pancakes with Applesauce) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner and lunch. 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 potato, 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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