What Meat is Currywurst Made Of?

The classic currywurst consists of finely chopped pork. Rarely, instead of pork, poultry meat is also processed into a meat mass – the so-called sausage meat. The sausage is boiled and, depending on the regional method of preparation, either roasted or fried and then cut into bite-sized pieces. The finely chopped sausage pieces get their fruity flavor from a special tomato-based curry sauce, which is sprinkled with plenty of curry powder. French fries are usually eaten with currywurst, more rarely a slice of unroasted toast or a wheat roll.

In the Ruhr area, the way currywurst is prepared differs from that in Berlin. In the Ruhr area, boiled sausages are used in the style of a bratwurst, which can be deep-fried in an oil bath with or without a casing. In Berlin, on the other hand, you get a small-cut bockwurst as currywurst. Compared to the currywurst in the Ruhr area, this is reddened and always has a gut.