Brandenburg cuisine

The Brandenburg cuisine is considered to be more down to earth. Traditionally, come in the habits of the Slavic population in northeast Germany, similar in Mecklenburg or Pomerania, expressed.

Fish

The Brandenburg cuisine is very rich in fish because of the numerous large and small inland lakes in Brandenburg. Above all, pike, perch, eel and carp as the Peitzer carp are often eaten. A typical preparation is the combination with the Spreewald sauce.

Vegetables

The potato is an indispensable part of Brandenburg cuisine, since Frederick the Great has helped the potato in Brandenburg with royal ordinances breakthrough. In flaming of Tourism offers a " Culinary Tour potato ". The participating Inns offer innovative recipes around the potato.

Wild mushrooms

In the forested areas of Brandenburg as the Schorfheide, in Lower Lusatia and the High Flaming there are good games and mushroom dishes. Chanterelles, chestnuts and porcini mushrooms are available in good years, abundant in the forests of Brandenburg, and consequently also on the menus of restaurants.

Regional specialties

A specialty of Lower Lusatia are pancakes, a form of pancake. In addition, here the linseed oil is obtained with its polyunsaturated fatty acids and eaten. Potatoes with cottage cheese, shallots and linseed oil are therefore a main course. Specialties include, without limitation Uckermark Klopp ham ( fried cooking or smoked ham ), the Wrukeneintopf ( stew with turnips, vegetables and meat insert) and the Fliederkräude ( sweet and sour sauce made from elderberry puree ). Brandenburg is famous for its cakes and desserts. The Fürst Pueckler ice and terminal cake from the Flaming are known. The Prignitzer " national dish " is Knieperteich carbon.

Drinks

In Brandenburg there are several breweries. To the black-colored from the monastery Neuzelle beer there was a years long legal dispute, because the state government wanted to prohibit the brewery to market the drink under the name Black beer. A once thriving metropolis beer was Bernau. However, that was " Bernauer beer " last produced in Berlin -Friedrich Hagen.

Around the city of Werder ( Havel ) is grown around lots of fruits and processed into fruit wines. In various distilleries also good fruit brandies are produced.