German

Vollkornbrot mit Kochschinken und Gurke (Rye Bread with Ham and Cucumber)

Name: Vollkornbrot mit Kochschinken und Gurke (Rye Bread with Ham and Cucumber)
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: German
Ingredients: 8 slices dark rye or mixed-grain bread (Vollkornbrot), sliced; 20 g butter, softened; 200 g cooked ham, thinly sliced; 1 cucumber, sliced; 2 tomato, sliced; 2 tsp mustard; 1 tbsp chives

Steffi @steffi_leipzig

Vollkornbrot mit Kochschinken und Gurke (Rye Bread with Ham and Cucumber) is German home cooking, eaten at breakfast and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

10 min Easy Diabetic friendly High fiber

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

8 slices dark rye or mixed-grain bread (Vollkornbrot), sliced
20 g butter, softened
200 g cooked ham, thinly sliced
1 cucumber, sliced
2 tomato, sliced
2 tsp mustard
1 tbsp chives

How to cook it

Spread the Vollkornbrot thinly with the soft butter, about half a teaspoon a slice, or use Halbfettmargarine if that is what the household keeps.
Trim any fat rim off the Kochschinken and lay it over half of the slices with a thin line of mustard.
Cover the other slices with cucumber and tomato and scatter the chopped chives over the top.
Put everything on a board in the middle of the table so everyone builds their own plate, two slices each, with a cup of tea or coffee in the morning or as a cold Abendbrot in the evening.

Serve it with

A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Vollkornbrot mit Kochschinken und Gurke (Rye Bread with Ham and Cucumber), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Blumenkohl mit Butterbroeseln (Cauliflower with Browned Butter Crumbs)
  
  25 min
What it is eaten with
- Bratkartoffeln (German Pan-Fried Potatoes)
  
  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. Vollkornbrot mit Kochschinken und Gurke (Rye Bread with Ham and Cucumber) carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Vollkornbrot mit Kochschinken und Gurke (Rye Bread with Ham and Cucumber)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Backfisch (Pan-Fried Breaded Plaice)
Gluten	Yes	Bratkartoffeln (German Pan-Fried Potatoes)
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: 310 kcal
Protein: 17 g
Carbs: 52 g
Fat: 7 g
Fiber: 9 g
Sugar: 6 g
Sodium: 990 mg
Saturated fat: 3 g

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

When to cook it

Vollkornbrot mit Kochschinken und Gurke (Rye Bread with Ham and Cucumber) takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.