Folks have repeatedly asked me about it, so here’s another way to make curry wurst. Let’s call it the “brat booth way”, because one place (which you would nowadays call a food truck around here) sold them pretty much in this fashion in my home town. I told you – every spot has their own “original” recipe. 
The main difference to what I posted for the M-Day BBQ is that this is made with kielbasa and ketchup for the main sauce ingredient – and closer to what I am used to in terms of German (pub) grub, even if we wouldn’t use kielbasa in a dish like this.
Do you like kielbasa? In what kind of a dish?
Curry Wurst with Curry Ketchup
Author: Sofie Dittmann
Recipe type: Pub Grub, Main
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 1 package of kielbasa, skinless (397 g or about 4 sausages)
- 454 g (1 lb) ketchup
- 100 g cherry juice
- 50 g Frank’s Hot Sauce or Tabasco
- 10 g garlic powder
- 10 g curry
Instructions
- Cut up and pan-fry the kielbasa.
- Combine all other ingredients in saucepan and bring to a boil. Add the kielbasa.
- Remove from heat and let sit for about 10 minutes.
- Serve with a side of French fries and sprinkled with curry powder.
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I L O V E curry wurst! Have to try making them!
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It’s been a long time… sorry I have missed your blog for so long. I signed up for emails updates again. I love this curry worst and the curry ketchup. Looks perfect!! Hope you are well.
Have a great weekend! ~ Ramona
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I love curry wurst so so much, so thanks for the recipe!! I never in a million years would have figured out those ingredients – cherry juice?! Awesome.
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Hello, just found your blog and am loving your recipes! It has never even occurred to me to make currywurst because the ones round here are just so good that I tend to keep them as a treat. Also, I’ve never successfully made french fries how I like them when I buy them hot
I’m totally amazed to discover the currywurst sauce has cherry juice in – is that a standard ingredient or just one way of making it sweet?
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Thanks for stopping by! If I were still in Germany, I probably wouldn’t have made this, either. But around here, you can’t get things like this, so I have to make them myself.
The recipe is a melange of a couple of recipes I found online, and one of them was using cherry juice. In addition to the ketchup, that gives it a hint of sweet, which is nicely balanced w/ the hot of the tabasco/Frank’s and the curry.
I do like kielbasa. I grew up with it being simply fried in a skillet and served with mustard for dipping.
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The simple dishes are often the best ones.
I love curry wurst with curry ketchup. Here and then I have to have a “curry wurst mit pommes”. Once in a while I cook this dish for me and my kids. I don’t know what it is, but this dish is satisfying. It’s probably because of the different flavors such as sweetness, saltiness and savory just to mention a few. I guess you have to grow up with it in order to like it the way we Germans do. Thanks
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I concur, this dish has a surprising depth to it. And as you can see in this thread, people get hooked on it when in Germany.
Sofie this sounds really good, but I am going to have to hide this post from my wife. She is polish and was raised on kielbasa. We can’t find good kielbasa in Durham, NC. I may have to find a mail order place to get it as she has been craving it lately. Do you make your own?
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Hey, you’re in DURHAM! What do you mean you can’t find REAL kielbasa? LOL Sorry I “defaced” it w/ curry ketchup…
Seriously, these came from the local supermarket, but if I want the REAL thing, I get it at the West Side Market in Cleveland. The only problem there is that there are just a few people there who sell what I’d consider the “real thing”, just like w/ my German butcher.
My wife was stationed in Germany for a few years with the military. She has requested this next week. LOL!
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For whatever the reason, this and Döner Kebap are one of those things people crave as a culinary memory from when they were “over there”. I think it may be b/c it’s so accessible. As always, if you do make it, I’d be dying to see pictures!
omg i am sooo excited you posted a recipe for this
it totally reminds me of doing my semester abroad in Berlin. I’m so making this soon!
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Thanks! Yeah, and this is pretty much the way you’d eat it at a Wurstbude, too. The other version was WAAAAY to refined IMHO. LOL