Salad recipes

This Oktoberfest cabbage salad is another welcomed recipe at Oktoberfest.

Creamy German cucumber salad (Gurkensalat) tossed in a tangy sour cream dressing with mustard and fresh dill. Salting the cucumbers first keeps every slice crisp and the dressing thick, never watery.

German-style cold potato salad dressed with vinegar, mustard, and dill seed. No mayo, no eggs. Naturally creamy from reserved starchy potato water.

Authentic German potato salad with diced apple, hard-boiled eggs, spicy mustard, and pickle juice in a creamy dressing. Best when chilled overnight for fully developed flavors.

German-style potato salad with a warm beer dressing made from butter, flour, mustard, and a full cup of beer. Crispy bacon, onion, and celery get tossed in after the potatoes soak up the tangy, malty dressing.

Hamburg-style fish salad: poached fish cubes tossed with hard-cooked egg, pickles, and capers in a lemony mustard-mayo sauce. Chilled German salad with beet and egg garnish.

Easy to prepare, and this German potato salad is very flavorful and tasty. Make it a day ahead, let it marinate in the refrigerator overnight, it tastes even better next day.

German-style potato salad with a warm beer dressing, crispy bacon, mustard, and Tabasco. No mayo, served warm with a tangy, malty kick from the beer-butter roux.

Hamburg-style fish salad with poached white fish, hard-cooked eggs, dill pickles, and capers in a tangy mustard-mayonnaise-sour cream sauce. A classic North German cold lunch.

German Kalter Kartoffelsalat: cold potato salad dressed with vinegar, mustard, and dill seed. No mayo, the starchy potato water creates a creamy emulsion.

German potato salad with beer marinade (Kartoffelsalat mit Biermarinade): warm sliced potatoes tossed with a tangy beer-mustard sauce, crisp bacon, celery, and onion. A Bavarian beer-garden classic.

German potato salad with a hot beer dressing thickened roux-style with flour and butter, sharpened with mustard and Tabasco, finished with crispy bacon and onion.

With this simple and delicious German recipe, you can enjoy Oktoberfest easily at home with your favourite German beer.

Hamburger fischsalat is a German-style fish salad with poached white fish, hard-cooked eggs, dill pickles, and capers in a mustard-lemon sour cream dressing. Chilled and garnished with beet slices.