How to make Frankfurt Green Sauce

In cooking, sauces are used as a good addition to the main dish, helping to better reveal its individual taste and aroma. For example, for meat, fish or boiled potatoes, the original “green sauce” is perfect. This "talking" name the product received due to the presence in its composition of a large number of different herbs. In cooking, several types of this sauce are known: Italian, Mexican, French and German. The main difference between them is the set of herbs that are used to prepare such a dish. In Germany, Frankfurt green sauce is considered the most popular. Historians claim that even the famous Goethe was very fond of him. Currently, there are several options for the preparation of this original fragrant sauce.

In the classic spirit

Initially, a classic Frankfurt green sauce should consist of seven types of herbs: sorrel, chervil, parsley, borago, watercress, small hemorrhage and onion-skoroda. But depending on the season, it is not always possible to assemble the necessary components. Some of them can be replaced with spinach, dill, lemon balm, basil or lovage. As a result, every housewife can get her Frankfurt green sauce, created based on the classic recipe. For example, a dish made from the following ingredients can be considered very close to the original:

• 2 boiled eggs, two bundles of chives, parsley, two tablespoons of lemon juice, one bunch of arugula, dill, watercress, lemon balm, sorrel, cucumber herb and chervil, 200 grams of sour cream, a teaspoon of sea salt and 100 gram of olive oil.

Preparing Frankfurt green sauce is very simple:

1. The first step is to chop the greens by first removing the thick stiff stems.
2. Finely chop the eggs.
3. Add greens, lemon juice to the herbs and let the mixture stand for 5 minutes.
4. After this, you need to fill in the crushed eggs, salt and season with sour cream.

Such a sauce will be just a great addition to boiled or fried meat.

A worthy replacement

Even the ancient German monks wrote about how to make Frankfurt green sauce. The recipe they proposed included leaves of plantain, dandelion, and flowering daisies. For many, such a composition does not seem quite familiar. Residents of central Russia will prefer the option that uses the following ingredients:

• 200 grams of a mixture of herbs (wild garlic, parsley, watercress, dill, sorrel, green onions and thyme), salt, 3 eggs, sugar, 200 grams of yogurt and fat sour cream, ground pepper and 100 grams of mayonnaise.

The preparation of this sauce takes very little time:

1. First you need to cook the eggs, and then peel and cut into medium-sized cubes.
2. Finely chopped washed and dried greens.
3. In a bowl, combine yogurt, mayonnaise and sour cream together.
4. Add salt to taste and add a little pepper.
5. Fill eggs and mix well.

Many believe that the sauce should be as homogeneous as possible. For this, greens can be pre-chopped with eggs in a blender. In addition, it will be even easier and faster.

Interesting option

Most culinary experts believe that it is right to cook green Frankfurt sauce on sour cream. In this case, you can give the product an original taste with the help of other ingredients. For this sauce, the following set of products is well suited:

• 250 grams of sour cream, a bunch of aromatic herbs (parsley, spinach, dill, basil, green onions and oregano), salt, 3 boiled eggs, a tablespoon of mustard, pepper, 45 grams of white wine vinegar, 100 grams of sunflower oil and sugar.

The cooking process consists of several stages:

1. First, egg yolks need to grind with a fork with sunflower oil.
2. Add vinegar, salt, mustard, sugar, pepper and mix the products until smooth.
3. Finely chop the greens with a sharp knife.
4. Pour it with sour cream.
5. Connect both masses.
6. Add crushed protein and mix well again.

Before use, let the sauce brew. This will take approximately 1 hour.

Non-standard recipe

Russian culinary specialists offer their own version of how to cook Frankfurt green sauce. The photo of the finished product is practically no different from the original. But his taste is more sharp and pronounced. To prepare an unusual sauce you will need:

• 5 boiled eggs, 125 milliliters of sour cream, vegetable and yogurt oil, 5 grams of salt, ½ teaspoon of French mustard, one pinch of white pepper, nutmeg and garlic powder, 60 grams of greens (chives, parsley, watercress , tarragon, chervil, lovage, dill, sorrel, thigh and cucumber grass).

The dish is being prepared in stages:

1. Grind the yolks in a bowl with vegetable oil. You should get the most homogeneous mass.
2. Finely chop the greens with a knife. For the sauce, you need one and a half tablespoons of each herb.
3. Protein crumble and mix with the remaining ingredients. To do this, you can use a mixer or a regular spoon.
4. Put together the protein and yolk mass.

Such a sauce can be consumed immediately after cooking. It is usually served cold to boiled or fried meat.