Currywurst
Berliner Currywurst: sliced pork sausage under curry-spiced ketchup
This is a pork dish. Currywurst was born in post-war Berlin, and today kiosks across the city sell it all day and long into the night, on a little paper tray with a wooden fork. A fried pork sausage is cut into bite-size pieces and drowned in a warm, tangy tomato sauce spiced with curry powder, then dusted with more curry powder and served with chips or a bread roll. The sauce is homemade here, so it has no brand of ketchup in it. The usual mistake is cooking the sausages too hot, so they split and burn outside while staying raw inside. Chef's tip: let the sauce simmer a full 10 minutes; the curry powder needs that time to lose its raw, dusty taste.
- Total time
- 35 min
- Difficulty
- easy
- Serves
- 4
Ingredients
For the curry sauce
For the sausages
Method
0/5 doneStep 1: Heat 1 tbsp vegetable oil in a small pan over a medium heat and soften 1 onion for 5 minutes. Stir in 2 tbsp mild curry powder and 1 tsp sweet paprika for 30 seconds.
6 minStep 2: Add 1 ¾ cups passata, 1 tbsp tomato paste, 2 tbsp brown sugar, 2 tbsp cider vinegar, 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce and ½ tsp salt. Simmer gently for 10 minutes, stirring now and then. Blend smooth with a stick blender and keep warm.
10 minStep 3: Meanwhile, heat 1 tbsp vegetable oil in a frying pan over a medium-low heat. Fry 4 pork bratwurst for 12–15 minutes, turning often, until browned all over.
14 minStep 4: Check one sausage: the middle must reach 160°F on a thermometer, with no pink and juices running clear.
Step 5: Slice the sausages into 2 cm pieces, pile them into bowls, spoon over plenty of warm sauce and finish with a pinch of 1 tsp curry powder, for dusting. Serve with chips or a bread roll.
Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 470 kcal
- Protein
- 18 g
- Carbs
- 22 g
- Fat
- 34 g
- Fibre
- 2 g
Nutrition values are estimates.
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Good to know
- How long does currywurst take?
- About 35 minutes in total: 10 minutes to prepare and 25 minutes to cook.
- How many people does it serve?
- 4 as written. Change the servings above the ingredients and every amount scales to match.
- What can I use instead of onion?
- 2 shallots per onion.
- What can I use instead of sweet paprika?
- Smoked paprika, half the amount.
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