Green Sauce or Grüne Sosse, is a sauce made of 7 specific herbs: parsley, chives, cress, sorrel, chervil, borage, salad burnet, chopped fine, and mixed with a combination of sour cream, yoghurt or creme fraiche, a bit of oil, vinegar, and mustard, salt and pepper and then served over boiled potatoes with 2 hard-boiled eggs.
Grüne Sosse can be a full meal with just the potatoes and the hard-boiled eggs. Frankfurter Schnitzel is a Schnitzel topped with Grüne Sosse. I like Grüne Sosse with roast beef.
You buy the herbs in white paper packets at any food store; they are widely available during the season.
The Winners in the 2018 Contest
Grüne Sosse tastes different in every restaurant as everyone seems to have his/her own recipe for it. Some chop the herbs with a knife, others us a blender or food processor; purists argue that is has to be chopped with a knife. Some also use mayonnaise, which I like, but not the purists. It may often have chopped up eggs in the sauce itself, which I like, but not everybody agrees with me.
The annual contest takes place over the course of a week in a large tent in the center of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, during the month of May. Every day, a day winner is chosen. On the last day, the six day winners compete in the final round for the overall winner and the 2 runners-up.
See also:
Best Green Sauce (Grüne Sosse) in Frankfurt (2015), Germany
Best Green Sauce (Grüne Sosse) in Frankfurt (2014), Germany
2018 Overall Winners
Winner: Gasthaus Zum Einhorn, Frankfurt Bonames, Alt-Bonames 2
Chef Willi Kehr and his wife Barbara took over the traditional Frankfurt Apple Wine Tavern from Willi's parents in 1990. The restaurant is in a timbered house that dates from 1549.
At the 2017 Green Sauce Competition, Zum Einhorn came in as #3. Zum Einhorn was the winner in 2013, after third place in the year before.
Zum Einhorn is also one of the Apple Wine Taverns in Frankfurt that still make their own applewine on the premises. Zum Einhorn's annual apple wine production is 25000 liters. See: Schiller's Favorites: Frankfurt Apple Wine Taverns that Make their own Apple Wine - Frankfurter Apfelweinlokale die noch selbst Keltern, Germany
Second Place: Zum Lahmen Esel, Frankfurt Niederursel, Krautgartenweg 1
Traditional Frankfurt Apple Wine Tavern since 1807. The restaurant is in a timbered house.
Third Place: Apfelwein Adolf Wagner, Frankfurt Sachsenhausen, Schweizer Straße 71
Popular, traditional Frankfurt Apple Wine Tavern in Frankfurt's center of apple wine taverns, Sachsenhausen.
2018 Day Winners
May 12 2018: Zum Lahmen Esel (see above)
May 13 2018: Döpfner’s, Frankfurt Sachsenhausen, Schifferstraße 38-40
Fine dining restaurant.
May 14 2018: Apfelwein Wagner (see above)
May 15 2018: Gasthaus Zum Einhorn (see above)
May 16 2018: Restaurant Kastanie, Frankfurt Fechenheim, Leinwebergasse 4-6
Restaurant.
May 17 2018: Waldgasthof Gundelhard, Hofheim am Taunus, Münsterer Straße 65
Popular country inn.
May 18 2018: SG Bockenheim
Soccer club.
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