German

Salzkartoffeln (Plain Boiled Potatoes with Parsley Butter)

Name: Salzkartoffeln (Plain Boiled Potatoes with Parsley Butter)
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: German
Ingredients: 2 lb potatoes, peeled and quartered; 3 tbsp butter; 2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped; 1 tsp salt

Jonas @jonas_koeln

Salzkartoffeln (Plain Boiled Potatoes with Parsley Butter) is German home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

25 min Easy Vegetarian Pescatarian Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 lb potatoes, peeled and quartered
3 tbsp butter
2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped
1 tsp salt

How to cook it

Put the potatoes in a pot of salted water, bring to a boil, and cook for 15 to 18 minutes, until fork-tender.
Drain the potatoes well and return them to the warm pot.
Add the butter and shake the pot gently so the potatoes take on a light glaze without breaking apart.
Scatter the parsley over the top and serve at once; the plainest possible starch, and the default under a Roulade, a fish fillet, or anything arriving with its own sauce.

Watch how to cook Salzkartoffeln (Plain Boiled Potatoes with Parsley Butter)

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Serve it with

A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Salzkartoffeln (Plain Boiled Potatoes with Parsley Butter), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Abendbrot-Teller mit Putenschinken (Cold Evening Bread Plate with Turkey Ham)
  
  10 min
The cooked vegetable
- Blumenkohl mit Butterbroeseln (Cauliflower with Browned Butter Crumbs)
  
  25 min
The sharp little thing
- Apfelmus (German Applesauce)
  
  20 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Salzkartoffeln (Plain Boiled Potatoes with Parsley Butter) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Salzkartoffeln (Plain Boiled Potatoes with Parsley Butter)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Kartoffelsalat Norddeutsche Art (Cold North German Potato Salad)
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 260 kcal
Protein: 5 g
Carbs: 39 g
Fat: 9 g
Fiber: 5 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 580 mg
Saturated fat: 5 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Salzkartoffeln (Plain Boiled Potatoes with Parsley Butter) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.