Frankfurts Famous Green Sauce Food

FRANKFURT GREEN SAUCE (FRANKFURTER GRüNE SOßE)

Steps:

• Wash the herbs. If necessary, remove the leaves from the stems and roughly chop them. Place in a deep bowl.
• Add the yoghurt and crème Fraiche or sour cream to the herbs. With a hand blender, puree the herbs. Alternatively, you can chop the herbs very finely and then mix them in with the yoghurt-crème Fraiche mixture.
• Peel the onion and cube very finely.
• Add the onion cubes, olive oil, mustard and lemon juice to the mixture. Season with salt and pepper.
• Allow the mixture to rest for an hour in the fridge or a cool place before serving.

FRANKFURT'S FAMOUS GREEN SAUCE

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• In a medium bowl, mash egg yolks with oil and mix to form a smooth paste. Add a teaspoon or two of lemon juice.
• Mix in quark, yogurt, and sour cream. Add herbs and then season to taste with pepper, salt, and lemon juice.
• Transfer to a food processor or blender and process until herbs are reduced to very small pieces and cream is bright green. You can choose to sieve the mixture into a bowl to remove large pieces of herb or egg yolk.
• Serve cold over hot, boiled potatoes and hard-cooked eggs.

GERMANY, FRANKFURT GREEN SAUCE

Steps:

• Chop the herbs very finely together. Add the remaining ingredients in the order given, seasoning to taste and beating in the egg yolk last of all.
• If you have problems locating any of the herbs, it would be best just to add a little more of some of the other herbs in the list.