Main Course / No Cooking Required / Recipes / Salad November 28, 2017

Wurstsalat is a German specialty particularly loved in summer. It’s a refreshing salad made from – usually left over – sausages.

Most commonly used is Bologna, but there are several other types of sausages available in Germany that have a similar texture and are fully cooked, so they can be used in a raw salad. Unless you have a German deli or butcher shop in your area, you’re probably stuck to what you can find in supermarkets and that’s usually Bologna in the US.

Bayerischer und Schweizer Wurstsalat – what’s the difference?

There’s two varietals of this dish – bavarian (Bayerischer) sausage salad and swiss (Schweizer) sausage salad. The difference is easy to spot: the swiss variety has added swiss cheese, the bavarian version does not contain cheese.

There is also a related dish called “Fleischsalat”, which is a finely chopped sausage salad with a mayo-based dressing. I’ll film a video on that one this summer.

Eat this salad with some kind of hearty bread and you have a nice lunch for a hot day.

Wurstsalat

losely translates to "sausage salad". A tasty salad made from sausage, onions, cucumbers and a few other things.

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Prep Time 10

Total Time 10

Course Main Course, Salad, Snack

Cuisine German

Servings 1

Ingredients

4 oz bologna
1/4 red or white onion
1 small seedless cucumber
2 oz swiss or other hard cheese optional - see notes
1/4 red bell pepper optional
1 tomato optional
2 breakfast radishes or a piece of daikon optional

Dressing

2 tbs sunflower oil
2 tbs vinegar
1 tsp salt
2 tsp pepper
1 pinch red pepper flakes optional
4 tbs water to taste

Instructions

Cut all the ingredients to same-size chunks and dress with the dressing. Eat with a hearty bread.

Notes

You can do variations of this recipe. Add avocado for example.

There are 2 versions of this dish. The "bavarian" sausage salad and the "swiss" sausage salad. The difference is that the swiss salad contains swiss cheese.