German cuisine · Salads & Mezze

Swabian Poultry Sausage Salad

Strips of poultry sausage with onions, pickled gherkins and a vinegar-oil marinade, Swabian-style with added cheese.

Ingredients · for 4 servings

• 400 g poultry sausage (Fleischwurst)
• 100 g Emmental cheese
• 1 onion
• 2 pickled gherkins
• 4 tbsp white wine vinegar
• 2 tbsp gherkin brine
• 5 tbsp sunflower oil
• 1 tsp medium-hot mustard
• 1/2 bunch chives
• Salt, pepper

Instructions

1. Skin the poultry sausage and, together with the Emmental, cut into strips about 4 cm long and 5 mm wide.
2. Halve the onion and shave into paper-thin half-rings, and cut the gherkins into fine strips.
3. Whisk the vinegar, gherkin brine, mustard, salt and pepper until the salt has dissolved, then slowly whisk in the oil.
4. Let the onion rings sit in the marinade for 10 min., so they become milder and the dressing gains flavor.
5. Add the sausage, cheese and gherkin strips, mix everything thoroughly and chill the salad covered for at least 1 hr.
6. Before serving, adjust the seasoning generously with vinegar, salt and pepper, sprinkle with chive rings and serve with farmhouse bread.