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Currywurst

Name: Currywurst
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Germany
Ingredients: 4 Sausage; 4 tbsp Ketchup; 1 tbsp Curry powder; 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce; 1 tsp Paprika powder; To taste French fries

Main Dish

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 2

Difficulty ⭐

Grilled sausage topped with a curry-spiced ketchup sauce — a Berlin street food classic.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Believed to have originated in 1949 when a Berlin street vendor, Herta Heuwer, combined curry powder (a precious commodity at the time) with ketchup and Worcestershire sauce to create a sauce for grilled sausage. Born from the food scarcity of the postwar years, this humble dish quickly spread across Berlin and today, tens of millions are consumed annually across Germany, especially in Berlin — a beloved national fast food. Eating it standing up at a street food stand (Imbiss) is the classic way.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Berlin street corner Imbiss, office workers on their way home stand and eat Currywurst off a paper plate — a slice of everyday life.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 2)

Sausage 4
Ketchup 4 tbsp
Curry powder 1 tbsp
Worcestershire sauce 1 tsp
Paprika powder 1 tsp
French fries To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the ketchup, curry powder, Worcestershire sauce, and paprika powder together to make the curry sauce.
Grill or pan-fry the sausages until the surface is nicely browned.
Cut the sausages into bite-sized rounds.
Plate and drizzle generously with the curry sauce.
Sprinkle with a bit more curry powder if desired.
Serve with French fries on the side.

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