Guest Review - Sue Imgrund - Nürnberger Rostbratwürstchen

Germany is a sausage-lovers paradise with an amazing variety of types to seek out and try. But I thought I’d start with something really quite commonplace – a humble little sausage that is nevertheless a winner.

Nürnberger Bratwürstchen are a speciality from the town of Nürnberg and their main characteristic is that they are tiny little things – not much bigger than what we Brits would call a cocktail sausage. The idea is to eat anything from six upwards in one sitting.

“ja!” is the Own Brand of one of the big supermarket chains here and is rather like one of those “basics” or “no frills” brands that the UK supermarkets do. But despite being “basic”, note from the packaging that these sausages came out top in a test of 19 types according to the German consumer bible Stiftung Warentest – a kind of German “Which?”

One traditional way to serve these little sausages is with Sauerkraut and a scoop of mashed potato. My son, aged ten, is more keen to eat them with baked beans, but that’s his English genes showing. They are also great for when you’re trying to rustle up a full English breakfast over here.

If you’re interested in the stats, here they are:

 Cost €1.89 for 300g or 14 sausages. That’s about 1.64 GBP or 12p per sausage.

Cost per kg is €6.30 or 5.47 GBP.

The ingredients are:

Pork 95%

Bacon fat

Salt

Herbs (mainly marjoram)

Spices

Sugar

Diphosphate (sorry, not good at translating chemicals from German)

Saitling (as far as I know, the skin, which is probably sheep intestine)

There’s 31.3g fat per 100g and 351kcal per 100g but I don’t have a clue about whether that’s good or bad – these things don’t interest me!

All in all, delicious, meaty, good value little sausages, perfect for a mid-week meal.

Overall rating – not just “ja!” but “jawohl!”

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