Pizzaleberkäse Semmel
Pizza-style Leberkäse; with peppers, olives, cheese inside. Modern variation.
Pizza-style Leberkäse; with peppers, olives, cheese inside. Modern variation.
Horse meat Leberkäse; traditional in some regions, now rare.
A finger-thick slice of warm baked Leberkäse cut to order into a crusty Semmel, eaten standing as Brotzeit. The Bavarian counter snack whose name means loaf, not liver, once you trace the word.
A finger-thick warm slab of baked Leberkäse in a Semmel, mustard chosen by region. The cross-border form of the southern German hot snack, with the spelling itself carrying the geography.
Leberkäse mit Spiegelei crowns the warm baked slab, often crisped again in a pan, with a sunny-side fried egg whose runny yolk floods the meat as sauce: a snack turned knife-and-fork plate.
Run a knife down a Leberkäse loaf and you hit a crust, because this is the one German emulsion baked rather than boiled. The warm slice and a stripe of sweet mustard are what that bake gives you.
In Bavaria the warm Leberkase roll has its own one-word name, the Leberkassemmel, and takes sweet mustard and tart pickle at once. The slab is baked beef and pork the food code keeps liver-free.
Leberkäse with pickle slices; Cornichon or dill pickle.
Cheese-stuffed Leberkäse in roll; Leberkäse with cubes of cheese baked inside, melty pockets.
What you read first is the cut face, because here you can see the meat: beef and pork left in visible pieces so the warm slab eats like a terrine, tucked hot into a split Semmel with sweet mustard.
Warm Leberkäse/Fleischkäse in roll; from butcher shops and bakeries.
Fleischkäse in roll; same product as Leberkäse, but legally 'Leberkäse' requires no liver only in Bavaria. Other regions may have liver c...