Lighter currywurst with oven fries
60 min · 27 g protein · 453 cals / serving
Berlin's favourite street snack at home: browned sausages sliced into a glossy, tangy-sweet curry tomato sauce with a little smoky paprika, dusted with more curry powder the way the stands do it. Golden oven fries come alongside, plus a crunchy, vinegary cabbage salad with caraway to cut through it all.
Ingredients
Oven fries
- 1 1/3 lb russet potatoes, cut into fries
- 2 tsp canola oil, scant
- 1/2 tsp salt
Curry sauce
- 1 tsp canola oil
- 1 small onion, very finely chopped
- 4 tsp curry powder
- 1 tsp paprika, smoked
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 1/4 cups tomato puree, passata
- 1 tbsp ketchup
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp honey
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 cup water
Sausages
- 4 sausages (14 oz) raw turkey sausage, turkey or chicken bratwurst
- 1 tsp curry powder, to dust
Cabbage salad
- 1/2 head cabbage, finely shredded
- 2 medium carrots, coarsely grated
- 4 tsp white vinegar
- 1 tsp granulated sugar
- 1 tsp caraway seed
- 1 tsp canola oil
- 1/4 tsp salt
Steps
- Heat the oven to 425°F. Soak the fries in cold water 10 minutes, dry them very well, toss with the oil and salt and spread on a lined baking sheet in one layer. Bake 30–35 minutes, turning once, until golden and crisp.
- For the sauce, heat the oil in a saucepan and soften the onion 5 minutes. Add the curry powder and paprika for 30 seconds, then the tomato paste for 1 minute. Stir in the passata, ketchup, vinegar, honey, Worcestershire sauce and water and simmer 15 minutes until thick and glossy. Blend smooth if you like.
- Toss the cabbage and carrot with the vinegar, sugar, caraway, oil and salt and squeeze it with your hands for a minute so it softens a little. Leave to stand.
- Brown the sausages in a nonstick skillet over medium heat 10–12 minutes, turning often, until cooked through (165°F).
- Slice the sausages into thick coins, spoon the hot curry sauce over and dust with curry powder. Serve with the fries and cabbage salad.
Good to know
Can I use pork bratwurst?
Of course; it is the Berlin original and richer: a score of about 42 instead of 60. A lean pork sausage is a good middle way.
Does the sauce keep?
It keeps a week in the fridge and is very good on burgers and grilled chicken, so make double.
Air fryer?
Air-fry the fries at 400°F for 18–22 minutes, shaking twice, in two batches if needed.
Per
- Calories
- 91
- Protein
- (25%)
- 5 g
- Fat
- (29%)
- 3 g
- Carbohydrates
- (47%)
- 11 g
- of which sugar
- 4 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 270 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. How
As written, 1813 kcal goes into the pot and 2443 g of ingredients comes out as about 2000 g of food: 91 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.