Wiener schnitzel?

[Andrew_Culture]

Get it cooked quick so you can post up a review, I love a nice schnitzel.

Once a year or so I have to go over to a place near Hildesheim for work and usually get to my hotel on a Sunday night. Soon as I've unpacked it's straight down to the bar, and no need for a menu, schnitzel and a large Krombacher please.

When I was in Munich I must have had it about five times, and then one night a very friendly bunch of locals insisted on feeding us schnapps with a little pear in it until about 3am...

 

[400bhp]

The Austrian's eat schnitzel with a really odd accompaniment, can't think what it is. Something like jam.

 

[jefmcg]

Something like jam? Chutney?

 

[fimm]

My boyfriend suggested we had cranberry jelly with ours on Christmas Eve - easy seeing as we had it already for Christmas Day! I don't know what the traditional Austrian equivalent would be...

 

[Leaway2]

Well I fetched some from Aldi, and some Steinhauser, which is pretty awful, but was cheap.

I bought some from Aldi on Saturday and had it last night. It was.....OK. Probably wouldn't buy it again.

 

[mcshroom]

Red currant jelly is I think the standard red jam stuff that is served.

They are very easy to make yourself, just take a pork steak (or whatever meat you are using), bash hell out of it with a tenderiser until it's really thin and then dip it in some beaten egg then into breadcrumbs. I think the really thin ones you get in Austria/Germany are made using a sort of roller to get them quite that thin, but in general the principle applies, and making them can be good stress relief too

 

[craigwend]

 

[Easytigers]

Never tried it...going to broaden my horizons...Aldi/Lidl here I come!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I think we're having ours tomorrow night, I'll keep you updated...

 

[Fnaar]

Beware of a DDR schnitzel, it's some sort of spam like square of pressed meat dipped in batter ... disgusting, but quite funny

I'd probably love that

 

[Fnaar]

Nobody's ever scoffed at my Wiener

 

[KneesUp]

I ate a lot of it when I lived in the Czech Republic, and also on a weekend trip to Vienna.

I don't want to put a dampener on things, but don't expect too much from the Aldi one.

 

[rich p]

What do you expect from a piece of meat battered to within an eighth of an inch of its life and battered again in breadcrumbs and fried. I'm surprised the Scots haven't adopted it as their national dish

 

[Fnaar]

Mrs F refuses to buy cheap meat, and frequents good butcher's shops only.
I simply can't satisfy her with a limp chipolata.

 

[rich p]

Mrs F refuses to buy cheap meat, and frequents good butcher's shops only.
I simply can't satisfy her with a limp chipolata.

Fnaar, you're on a roll - oh no, that's a hot dog innit?