Name: Kartoffelpuffer mit Apfelmus (Berlin style)
Prep time: 35 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: German
Ingredients: 1kg waxy potatoes (Sieglinde or Linda), peeled; 1 medium onion; 2 large eggs; 3 tablespoons plain flour; 1 teaspoon fine sea salt; Half teaspoon white pepper; Half teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg; Neutral oil or schmalz for frying (about 200ml); For the apple compote: 600g Boskoop or Bramley apples peeled and cored; 80g caster sugar; juice of half a lemon; 1 cinnamon stick; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; Sour cream, to serve (optional)

Kartoffelpuffer mit Apfelmus — Photo: Xocolatl (talk) 14:34, 16 June 2017 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Crisp shredded-potato pancakes fried in plenty of fat, eaten with a heavy dollop of cold apple compote and a glass of beer. The Berlin Christmas-market and Kneipe staple.

Kartoffelpuffer (also reibekuchen in the Rhineland) is a German potato-pancake tradition centuries old, but Berlin's particular Imbiss-window and Christmas-market version is what most visitors taste: a shredded-potato cake with a tight light crust, served from a steel hatch with apple compote in a paper boat. Konnopke's Imbiss under the Eberswalder S-Bahn, Max und Moritz on Oranienstrasse, and Zum Schusterjungen in Prenzlauer Berg all serve the canonical Kneipe version.

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Konnopke's Imbiss ★ 4.6

€Street foodPrenzlauer Berg

Konnopke's Imbiss under the Eberswalder Strasse U-Bahn arch has cooked currywurst at this Prenzlauer Berg site since 1930. At Schoenhauser Allee 44B.

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Max und Moritz ★ 4.2

€€Berlin TavernKreuzberg

Max und Moritz on Berlin's Oranienstrasse has cooked Prussian tavern classics since 1902 in the original ceramic-tiled dining room; the Klopse and rouladen.

OrderThe Koenigsberger Klopse with caper-cream sauce; the beef rouladen with red cabbage in winter.

TipClosed Monday lunch. The original 1902 dining room is the seating to book; phone two weeks out.

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Zum Schusterjungen ★ 4.1

€GermanPrenzlauer Berg

Zum Schusterjungen on Danziger Strasse in Prenzlauer Berg serves unchanged Berlin tavern cooking: Buletten with potato salad, Gulaschsuppe and Eisbein.

OrderBerlin tavern classics: Buletten, Gulasch, Eisbein

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