Ein Rezept lesen
German recipes (Rezepte) are a genuinely good real-world reading text: short, imperative-heavy, and full of food vocabulary you already have from Lesson 12. Today combines the du-imperative (Lesson 25) with cooking verbs into something you could actually cook from.
| schneiden | to cut | kochen | to cook/boil |
| mischen | to mix | braten | to fry |
| hinzufügen | to add | würzen | to season |
Nudeln mit Tomatensoße
Koche die Nudeln in Salzwasser. (Cook the pasta in salted water.)
Schneide die Zwiebel klein. (Cut the onion small.)
Brate die Zwiebel in Öl. (Fry the onion in oil.)
Füge die Tomaten hinzu. (Add the tomatoes. - separable verb, Lesson 15)
Würze mit Salz und Pfeffer. (Season with salt and pepper.)
Notice each line uses the Sie-imperative or a bare du-imperative form without a pronoun - the same pattern from Lesson 25, just applied step by step throughout a whole text rather than one sentence.
| die Zutat / die Zutaten (pl.) | ingredient/s |
| die Zwiebel | onion |
| das Salz / der Pfeffer | salt / pepper |
1. "Cut the onion small." - ______ die Zwiebel klein.
2. What's the German word for "ingredients"?
3. "Add the tomatoes." (separable verb) - Füge die Tomaten ______.
4. What does "würzen" mean?
5. What mood/form are most recipe instructions written in?
Vocabulary cross-checked against the official Goethe-Zertifikat A1 Wortliste.
Want a real German recipe to practice reading, matched to something you'd actually cook? Ask your teaching agent.