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Prep Time 20 minutes minutes

Total Time 20 minutes minutes

  • Marta
  • July 13, 2014
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Frankfurt Green Sauce is the most refreshing sauce I know! Nothing is better in the summer than going to an apple wine tavern to eat Green Sauce and drink apple wine.

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The Frankfurt Green Sauce contains seven herbs: chives, parsley, cress, sorrel, chervil, borage, and salad burnet. Green sauces (salsas verde)has been around for 2000 years, but the first green sauce recipe was found in the cookbook from Wilhelmina Rüdings in the 19th century.

Around Hessen, you can find many variations of the green sauce, but in our family, we use sour cream as a base and spice it with lemon, salt, and sugar. In apple wine taverns, you can find green sauce made with curd cheese or crème fraîche, and some of them spice it with pickled cucumbers instead of lemon.

Typically, the Frankfurt Green Sauce is served with hard-boiled eggs, but you can also have it with a Schnitzel! Another great way to eat it is with cooked beef topside.

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Frankfurt's green sauce

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Total Time 20 minutes mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine German

Servings 8 people

Ingredients

Herbs for Frankfurt-Style Free Sauce (200g of herbs 9 in total)

  • 40 g chives (1,8 oz)
  • 30 g parsley (1,4 oz)
  • 30 g cress (1,4 oz)
  • 30 g sorrel (1,4 oz)
  • 30 g chervil (1,4 oz)
  • 25 g borage (0,9 oz)
  • 15 g salad burnet (0,5 oz)

Additional Sauce Ingredients

  • 600-800 g sour cream with 10% fat 28 oz / 3¼ cup
  • 1-2 lemon(s) juice only
  • 4 eggs cooked
  • salt according to your taste
  • sugar according to your taste

Instructions

  • Wash herbs, remove stems, and put them along with the eggs through a meat grinder. (traditionally, people would cut the herbs with a knife, but it takes ages, and a kitchen machine can do this job for you)

  • TIP: Never use a blender to cut the herbs because a blender changes the consistency of the sauce, and instead of the green sauce, you will have a green sauce soup;)

  • Combine the mixture with sour cream, lemon juice, salt and sugar. Keep on adding the seasonings until you are happy with the taste. My green sauce needs at least 3 teaspoons of salt, juice from 1,5 lemons and 3 tablespoons of sugar.

  • Store in the fridge for no longer than 3 days. The sauce cannot be frozen.

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FAQs

What is Frankfurt green sauce made of? ›

Sorrel, borage, chervil, burnet, parsley, chives and garden cress, these are the 7 herbs which make up the traditional Frankfurt Green Sauce.

What is Frankfurt green sauce Wiki? ›

The Frankfurt-style is made exclusively from seven fresh herbs, namely parsley, chives, chervil, borage, sorrel, garden cress, and salad burnet together with sour cream, oil, vinegar, mustard, salt and added hard boiled eggs.

What food is Frankfurt famous for? ›

Here are some of the most popular dishes and ones to look out for:
  • Grüne Soße (Green Sauce) Undoubtedly one of Hessen's most famous culinary dishes. ...
  • Handkäse mit Musik. Unquestionably, an interesting name. ...
  • Frankfurter Rippchen. ...
  • Ahle Worscht. ...
  • Frankfurter Würstchen. ...
  • Frankfurter Kranz.

Why is Worcestershire sauce called Worcestershire sauce? ›

Regardless of how they got started crafting their sauce, according to the Lea & Perrins website, Mr. Lea and Mr. Perrins were so smitten with it they decided to share it with the world, giving the sauce the name of their county (or shire), Worcester.

Where does Frankfurt food come from? ›

Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, is traditionally credited with originating the frankfurter. However, this claim is disputed by those who assert that the popular sausage - known as a "dachshund" or "little-dog" sausage - was created in the late 1600's by Johann Georghehner, a butcher, living in Coburg, Germany.

What is Frankfurt food made of? ›

Frankfurters are long, thin sausages, typically made from lightly smoked pork, and generally served with bread and mustard. Other common accompaniments include sauerkraut and potato salad.

What is green hot sauce made of? ›

Ingredients. Jalapeño Pepper, Water, Sugar, Salt, Poblano Pepper, Acetic Acid, Garlic Powder, Jalapeño Powder, Xanthan Gum, Poblano Pepper Flavor, Sodium Benzoate (Preservative) and Sodium Metabisulfite (Preservative).

What is Worcestershire sauce also known as? ›

Worcestershire sauce, known as salsa inglesa ('English sauce') or salsa Perrins ('Perrins sauce'), is very popular in El Salvador.

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