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Wurzelfladen

English translation: root vegetable rösti

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German term or phrase:Wurzelfladen
English translation:root vegetable rösti
Entered by: Jon Reynolds

10:02 Oct 15, 2009
German to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Cooking / Culinary
German term or phrase: Wurzelfladen
Not much context, here is a link to a picture:

http://www.stockfood.de/results.asp?image=225923

I think "Wurzel" can be "carrot" in some regions, and carrot appears in some lists of ingredients I have found. Just not sure how to put it into English and make it sound tasty!
Jon Reynolds
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:23
root vegetable rösti
Explanation:
I think rösti sound more tempting than fritters! It's used a lot in English too (potato rösti are in my English cookbooks.

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Note added at 22 hrs (2009-10-16 08:59:37 GMT)
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I don't think the things in the picture look like either fritters or frittata. Fritters involve using a batter and you can't see the bits of root vegetable sticking out as in a rösti, frittata involve eggs and are a fairly deep cake-like mass that take up a whole frying pan. To make rösti you just use a root vegetable, perhaps an onion or two and salt and pepper.
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Slindon
Germany
Local time: 23:23
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3root vegetable rösti
Slindon
4 +1root vegetable fritters
Lesley Robertson MA, Dip Trans IoLET
3 +1carrot fritters
Barbara Wiebking
2 +2Root vegetable pancake/pattie
David Williams
3 +1carrot flat cake
Marga Shaw
3root tartlets
Rolf Keiser
3root vegetable frittata
Veronika McLaren
3 -1root mash fritters
Sonja Marks-Terrey


Discussion entries: 4





  

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
carrot fritters


Explanation:
or carrot and potato fritters, possibly, depending on the recipe.


    Reference: http://agoodappetite.blogspot.com/2008/08/carrot-fritters.ht...
    Reference: http://www.cuisine.com.au/recipe/Carrot-and-potato-fritters
Barbara Wiebking
Germany
Local time: 23:23
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  franglish: I'd use pancake for Fladen as fritters are deep-fried. I have a delicious recipe for carrot-sweet potato pancakes!
12 mins
  -> Her damit - I'm always looking for good recipes! I happen to have stumbled upon this one just now: http://www.foodbuzz.com/blogs/us/california/san_francisco/14... it sounds so tempting (nothing to do with carrots though).
agree  Claire Cox: Yes, Nigel Slater did a lovely version of these on his latest BBC programme http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n15rq
23 mins
  -> Oh yes, thanks for the link!
disagree  David Williams: Wurzelgemüse encomapsses much more than carrots, and fritters are fruit or veg (any kind of food) "coated in batter and deep fried" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritter), e.g. apple fritters: http://tinyurl.com/ygmfk7n
1 hr
neutral  Cetacea: fritters yes, carrot no--has to be root vegies. Thanks a lot for the recipe you posted, though! :-)
1 hr
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34 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
root mash fritters


Explanation:
I know of "root mash" in the UK, so perhaps a "root mash fritter" (depending on recipe) would work.

Sonja Marks-Terrey
France
Local time: 23:23
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  David Williams: The picture linked to above seems to show grated rather than mashed vegetables.
1 hr
  -> Ah, fair enough. Didn't see the picture link.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
root vegetable fritters


Explanation:
Loads of recipes available with this name (see link) - I think calling them "carrot fritters" limits it too much because there are a whole array of root vegetables that can be used

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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-10-15 12:07:01 GMT)
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Have also discovered several recipes for "root vegetable rösti" eg
http://www.riverford.co.uk/recipes/recipe.php?catid=5&recipe...


    Reference: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/recip...
Lesley Robertson MA, Dip Trans IoLET
Austria
Local time: 23:23
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 22

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  David Williams: As mentioned previously, fritters are usually deep fried in batter, whereas the picture resembles a potato pancake. Definition: "A fritter is any kind of food coated in batter and deep fried." (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritter).
43 mins
  -> The fritters in the recipe I posted are shallow fried, not deep fried (as are most of the fritters in the recipes I looked at) and these on Jon's picture certainly look shallow fried too. The picture doesn't resemble a pancake IMO
agree  Cetacea: The Wurzelfladen in Jon's picture are definitely fritters, not pancakes.
1 hr
agree  Michaela Pschierer-Barnfather
3 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
root tartlets


Explanation:
I would associate the picture with tartlets, whether deep-fried or not

Rolf Keiser
Switzerland
Local time: 23:23
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Root vegetable pancake/pattie


Explanation:
I think Wurzel in this context can mean any kind of root vegetable, including carrots, parnsips, etc., but not just carrots.

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Note added at 8 mins (2009-10-15 10:11:38 GMT)
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The picture you linked to looks a bit like a potato pancake, after all.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-10-15 12:15:16 GMT)
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Another type of Wurzel that is popular here in Germany is Schwarzwurzel, so I'd tend to shy away from specifying carrots.

Example sentence(s):
  • Wurzelgemüse (root vegetables (e.g. carrots, celerie, etc.)
  • Wurzelgemüse - root vegetables

    Reference: http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/hlex/konzepte/l7/l795.ht...
    Reference: http://www.bildwoerterbuch.com/nahrungsmittel-und-kueche/nah...
David Williams
Germany
Local time: 23:23
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lonnie Legg: Patty & root veg. -- unless it's definitely limited to carrot (http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Carrot-Patties/MoreRecipesLikeT...
1 hr
  -> Thanks Lonnie!
neutral  Cetacea: Going by the word "Fladen", I'd thought of pancakes first as well, but the Wurzelfladen in Jon's link look like fritters.
2 hrs
  -> Not not me, as explained + accompanied by the definition of fritters elsewhere, Cetacea.
agree  Trudy Peters: Yes. Doesn't look deep-fried to me.
4 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
carrot flat cake


Explanation:
Synonyme für Karotte:

Mohrrübe, Möhre, oranges Gemüse, Gelbrübe, Rüebli, Wurzel, gelbe Rübe,

Gelbrübe, Möhre, Mohrrübe,

carrot, möhre, mohrrübe, wurzel, gelbwurzelFlade
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:LEmT7PLgTmMJ:www.wie-sa...

Fladen = flat cake (Fachwörterbuch Lebensmitteltechnologie, R. Bratfisch) or round flat dough-cake (Collins German Dictionary)

Hence my suggestion:
carrot flat cake

e.g.:
I was leaving a university position, and it was traditional to have a going-away afternoon party for each person who left (yes, it was a revolving door). The traditional departing party was pizza, carrot-flat-cake, mints (where the second ingredient was wheat starch), and mixed nuts.
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:m1tOoYJFt9kJ:www.celiac...

Dessert at Fabiane's. None of all this foux de fa fa, though. Just delicious carrot flat cake.
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:f5kBbX9v3QYJ:img60.yfro...







Marga Shaw
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:23
Native speaker of: German

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Barbara Wiebking: I totally agree with you on the question of Wurzel/carrot.
9 hrs
  -> Thank you kriddl!
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
root vegetable frittata


Explanation:
Another suggestion - the picture doesn't seem to show much batter being involved.

Veronika McLaren
Local time: 17:23
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
root vegetable rösti


Explanation:
I think rösti sound more tempting than fritters! It's used a lot in English too (potato rösti are in my English cookbooks.

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Note added at 22 hrs (2009-10-16 08:59:37 GMT)
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I don't think the things in the picture look like either fritters or frittata. Fritters involve using a batter and you can't see the bits of root vegetable sticking out as in a rösti, frittata involve eggs and are a fairly deep cake-like mass that take up a whole frying pan. To make rösti you just use a root vegetable, perhaps an onion or two and salt and pepper.

Slindon
Germany
Local time: 23:23
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cetacea: That's it! But being Swiss, I'd go for "root vegetable rösti cakes", since to me, a Rösti is pan-sized. See e.g. http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/recipes/show/257-vegetable-... .
1 hr
  -> I always translate the German 'Reibekuchen' with 'Rösti'. I prefer 'Rösti' to 'Rösti cakes' as to me Rösti are the same size as a Reibekuchen which is about the same size as in the link supplied by Jon.
agree  Anton Popescu: good choice, even though rösti is larger
8 hrs
  -> I don't think the size is the problem. If you look at Google images they're in all shapes and sizes. I've only ever had the individual ones but you can also make a pan full of the mixture and then cut it up.
agree  analytical (X): Rösti is much easier to prepare in the size of 'Reibekuchen'. This way you can flip them over without risk of breaking and you can also arrange them nicely on a plate.
18 hrs
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