Rote Gruetze appears as a signature dish in 1 Germany cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Rote Gruetze · Berlin
Rote Gruetze is the summer Berlin and northern German dessert: a thickened compote of red summer fruits (raspberry, redcurrant, cherry, strawberry) served warm or cold with vanilla cream.
Rote Gruetze (literally red groats) takes its name from the 16th-century practice of binding the fruit compote with semolina or oat groats. The modern Berlin and Schleswig-Holstein version uses cornflour instead. The dish is the canonical Brandenburg summer dessert: a use-up for the red fruit glut of June and July from Werder's strawberry farms and the local raspberry and currant patches. By tradition, every Berlin Gartenrestaurant serves Rote Gruetze through the summer season; the vanilla-cream pour (Vanillesauce) is non-negotiable. Lutter und Wegner has plated the version unchanged since the 1990s; many Berlin bakeries sell the jam-jar take-away version year-round.
Where to eat in Berlin:
- Lutter und Wegner
- Borchardt
- Lokal