20 Oktoberfest Recipes: German Recipes to Celebrate Autumn (2024)

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What is the snack food for Oktoberfest? ›

The staples of most of a Bavarian charcuterie board are smoked and cured meats, sausages, cheese, radish, grapes, and onions. Ingredients that are simple but of great quality. The so called "Bayerische Brotzeit" is served with pretzels or bread and washed down with a refreshing mug of Oktoberfest beer.

Breakfast is one the most important meal in German households. Start off with a warm beverage such as coffee, tea or hot cocoa. Next follow slices of fresh, crusty or toasted bread (Brot) or bread rolls (Brötchen) with various spreads and toppings.

Traditional Lebkuchen are decorated German-style gingerbread cookies that are meant to be strung around the neck of your Oktoberfest sweetheart. Our “Lebkuchen” are made with Easy Tiger's signature ginger cookie dough and decorated with German phrases like “Cheers!”, “I Love You!”, and “You are sooooo sweeet!”.

Ein Prosit song lyrics

Very often, Ein Prosit is followed by the simple toast, “Oans, zwoa, drei, gsuffa!”, which means, “one, two, three, drink”.

Known as "brezel" in Germany, this delicious baked good is a familiar sight at the Munich Oktoberfest. The saltiness of the pretzels is the perfect complement for hoppy lager beers!

The Oktoberfest Charcuterie Board is a fun way to celebrate this time of year with a shareable snack board made with multiple types of pretzels, soft cheese, hard cheese, pub cheese, fresh blackberries, crisp apples, whole grain mustard, cornichons all paired with some sauerkraut and bratwurst.

At the booths

They sell cold sausages, fish rolls (Fischsemmel), cheese, Bavarian meatloaf (Leberkas), and Schnitzel rolls. Additionally, all the small tents sell some of their foods at their counters.

Oktoberfest (German pronunciation: [ɔkˈtoːbɐˌfɛst]; Bavarian: Wiesn, Oktobafest) is the world's largest Volksfest, featuring a beer festival and a travelling carnival, and is held annually in Munich, Bavaria, from mid- or late-September to the first Sunday in October, with more than six million international and ...

What food goes well with Oktoberfest beer? ›

Pork Chops:

Pork is a staple of the German diet, so there's no surprise that pork dishes pair well with many German-style beers. When meat is cooked, the chemical reactions (known as Maillard reactions) are the same ones that create the darker malts used in beer and have similar toasty flavors.