Beer Snacks
Beer Snack Recipes
Beer snacks are a certain type of snacks that are cooked specifically to be consumed with beer. Typically, the recipe for beer snacks includes meat, poultry or various fish, as well as a lot of spices and salt. Recipes for beer snacks are very diverse - from salted potato chips to salted and dried fish, baked chicken wings and other beer snack recipes. All snacks for beer can be consumed like regular snacks, it is not necessary to supplement them with beer, so such snacks are quite suitable for everyone, including children. But it is with beer that such snacks fully reveal their taste potential, so it is better to use them for their intended purpose - pouring yourself a glass of your favorite type of beer.
What Can You Cook for Beer?
Potato Chips
Potato chips are a well-known product; potato chips are very good as a snack for beer. This beer snack can be purchased at any grocery store. But why buy industrially produced chips in bright packaging, containing not only potatoes, but also a lot of chemical additives, if you can easily cook chips at home. To do this, you only need potatoes, a special grater, slicer or vegetable cutter. The only additives you can use for potato chips are salt, and ground black or hot pepper, chopped Parmesan and other natural additives can be used as natural flavorings and additives.
Dried, Salted and Smoked fish
One of the good options for a beer snack is dried, salted and smoked fish, prepared according to various recipes. Moreover, a variety of fish can be used as a snack for beer - river and sea, from small anchovies and sprat to huge tuna, from cod to salmon. Swedish cuisine is richest in recipes for fish snacks for beer, but other Scandinavian cuisines are not far behind. At home, you can dry, salt and marinate almost any fish, from sprat to tuna and salmon, resulting in a wonderful snack for beer.
Baked Chicken Wings
Baked chicken wings are one of the most common beer snacks cooked in many countries. For example, in the United States they cook buffalo wings - a classic American recipe for baked wings, served with blue cheese sauce and fresh vegetables. In Korean cuisine, there is a recipe for chicken wings that are deep-fried with a lot of spices, resulting in very spicy, hot and crispy chicken wings. German cuisine did not stop at chicken wings - for the Oktoberfest beer festival taking place in Germany, they cook not chicken wings, but half a chicken at once - this is what this beer snack is called.
Baked Pork Knuckle
Baked pork knuckle is a classic recipe for a beer snack, typical of German and Czech cuisine, and the Germans and Czechs certainly cannot be blamed for not knowing what to cook for beer. Baked pork knuckle is cooked according to various recipes and served hot as an appetizer with beer. Sauerkraut can be served as a side dish for baked pork knuckle.
Ideal Snack for Beer
The ideal snack for beer should be such that it complements the taste of beer and at the same time does not cause heaviness in the stomach, allowing you to drink more beer and eat another beer snack. This applies to most snacks that are consumed with light beers that contain small amounts of alcohol. They go well with potato chips, dried fish, baked chicken wings and more as a snack. If we are talking about beers containing a fairly high percentage of alcohol, a beer snack should not only be tasty, but also quite filling. An example of such a snack for beer would be a baked pork knuckle, which, together with a side dish of sauerkraut, can be not only a good snack for beer, but also for stronger drinks - vodka or schnapps.