German Christmas Market

[Ellie-Kay]

I recently visited a German Christmas Market in the UK where they were serving a marinated pork dish with sliced potatoes. It was delicious and I'd love to have the recipe for this dish. Can anyone help, please?

[Clanad]

Your brief description sounds like a dish we do often... Schweinbraten... I don't have my recipe at hand, but this is very similar:
http://www.recipezaar.com/170477

We thickly slice potatoes and add to the braten marinade for the last day of marinating or so. The meat, as the recipe suggests, is best when grilled (on a grill, ya'll call it barbecue, no?) and the potatoes are placed in aluminum foil pouch with some of the marinade and grill as well... Best of luck!

[Ellie-Kay]

Thanks Clanad - I'm sure you're right. The German guy cooking the dish told me the ingredients (in broken English) which included sliced pork, paprika, onions, garlic, sugar, salt and black pepper, but he was too busy with customers to explain how to cook it!

[spudqueen]

Last week I went to the European market in Manchester and ate what I ate last year when I went, which was schashlick. It is pork in a reddish coloured sauce, and was served with potatoes. I tried 'googling' for a recipe last year but all I came up with was kebab recipes! So I live in hope that someone replies to your post!

[dolly pond]

mm, sounds lush, now my tummy is rumbling

[Ellie-Kay]

Interesting! I recently visited Krakow where I had a meal called Schashlick - a reddish marinated pork dish served with baked potatoes (maybe a Polish dish). It was lovely but different to the German Market dish. The German one was more like a pork casserole served up in a huge wok, and the potatoes were like braised potatoes with a coating of marinade too. There was a sign saying Spanferkel, but when I googled for that it said it was a suckling pork dish. So the mystery continues...

[Bohne]

Don't you remember, what the food was called?
And where was that christmas market?

And Schaschlik really is just a Kebab...
(usually meat, onions, peppers)

[Ellie-Kay]

The German Market is in Southampton which I visited again today. The dish is indeed Spanferkel (suckling pig) which is sliced and served in a bread roll with sauerkraut. Some of the pork slices are placed in a serving tray with the marinade (paprika, onions, black pepper etc) and served with the saute potatoes. Not quite as flavoursome this time but still a tasty dish. I'll be back there again next year!