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Here comes my German Toast Hawaii Recipe.

The still popular combination “sweet plus hearty with cheese baked on bread” comes from the German economic miracle years.

In 1955, actor and TV chef Clemens Wilmenrod, who had no cooking training at all, introduced the fast snack to German TV viewers.

There were only 3 channels 😉 Why Hawaii?

Until the 50s Hawaii was the main producer of canned pineapples (Dole Food Company) and was then replaced by the Philippines and later Thailand.

Accordingly, Mr. Wilmenrod should have called his toast creation “Toast Philippines”.

Undisputedly, Hawaii sounds more melodic and you immediately have pictures of beautiful Hawaiian girls dancing hula in mind.

That’s a nice picture when preparing and enjoying the toast…We both capture the thought and I send you hip-swinging into the kitchen.

Aloha, I wish you good luck and a good appetite!

Table of Contents

  • 1. Recipe German Toast Hawaii
  • 2. Nutritional information and Calories
  • 3. Shopping List for Toast Hawaii
  • 4. How Famous German Chefs Cook the Toast Hawaii Today
  • 5. More German Recipes

1. Recipe German Toast Hawaii

Now quickly put on the flower chain, it follows my instructions for you with ingredients and quantities.

Have fun preparing and baking. I am looking forward to your questions and comments…

Toast Hawaii

Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.

Servings 2

Calories 555

Total Time 20 Min.

Preparation Time 10 Min.

Cook Time 10 Min.

Simple tutorial on how to prepare toast hawaii.

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Ingredients

8 pc toast breadslices (I like to use toast or brioche or gluten-free toast)
50 g butter
8 slices cooked ham
1 pc big pineapple
8 slices Cheddar
8 pc co*cktail cherries (or cranberries)

Instruction

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Prepare toast

Preheat the oven to 200° C at grill level.

Cover a baking tray with paper and make ready.

Roast the toast slices in the toaster.

Then spread with butter while still hot.

Alternatively, you can fry the bread in butter in the pan.

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Put ham

Cover the buttered toast with the boiled ham.

IMPORTANT:

Keep the ham away from the edge of the toast.

Do not fry the ham uncovered in the oven.

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Peel pineapple

Cut the pineapple top and bottom with a large sharp knife.

Then place the fruit vertically, hold firmly and cut off the skin sufficiently thick in a light curve.

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Variant 1

Variant 1Pineapple rings:

Place the pineapple horizontally on the chopping board and cut down slices about 0.5 cm thick.

Use a metal ring to cut the core out of the individual slices and remove.

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Supplement pineapple

Cover the ham toast with a slice of pineapple.

Gourmet tip:
Fry the pineapple quarters in butter and caramelise them with sugar.

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Variant 2

Variation 2 Fine pineapple corners:

Here the pineapple is cut a little finer.

Place the fruit body horizontally on the board and cut through.

Put half of the fruit back upright and quarter.

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Cut slices

Remove the woody fruit kernel from the pineapple quarters.

Cut fine slices from the quartered fruit.

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Put on pineapple slices

Cover the roasted and buttered toast with boiled ham and fine pineapple slices.

Gourmet tip:
Briefly fry the pineapple quarters in butter and caramelise them with sugar.

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Put on cheese

Now the ham and pineapple toast can be covered with cheese slices.

No ham should come out!

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Toast gratin

Remove the toast from the oven after about 10 minutes.

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Decorate

Decoration:

Serve the Hawaiitoast with a co*cktail cherry.

Enjoy your meal!

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Courses

2. Nutritional information and Calories

3. Shopping List for Toast Hawaii

What’s that supposed to mean? It’s about how you want to assemble your individual creation according to your personal taste.

3.1 Variants

In principle, the following components should be represented:

Bread, Ham, Pineapple, Cheese, Cherry

BreadHamPineappleCheeseCherry
Classic Evilwheat bread from discounterslow quality ham from the offer in the discountersfrom the canpackaged cheese with “non-natural” orange colour“something red” that has to eaten from the fridge
Classic Finebakery white bread freshly slicedcooked ham from the butcher of trustfresh pineapple, self slicedfine cheddar from cheese loafco*cktail cherry
GourmetsFrench box white bread importeddelicacy ham from the organic farmerfinest fresh baby pineappleorganic Raclette cheese direct from SwitzerlandAmarena cherry
Gourmet Freaksbrioche or homemade breadslices of pork fillet cooked at low temperaturefresh caramelized fig, pineapple or peach, home-pickedtruffled brie or other truffle cheeseone cherry cooked in 50 years old port wine

3.2 Bread

Which bread should form the basis for you? It should have flat slices.

Here are my suggestions for you:

  • Box white bread
  • Toast / butter toast / sandwich toast (with or without grains, gluten-free…)
  • Brioche
  • Rye bread / Gerster / Mixed bread
  • Wholemeal bread / brown bread / egg white bread / bread with nuts

3.3 Ham

Which ham or ham substitute would you like to use?

  • Cooked ham / Prague ham
  • Air-dried raw ham such as Parma ham, Serrano ham, Tyrolean ham etc.
  • Smoked ham such as Black Forest ham, salmon ham, etc.
  • Meat sausage / Lyoner
  • Smoked tofu as vegetarian ham or vegan ham
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Important note: Always cover the ham with cheese and pineapple. This will prevent the formation of the harmful acrylamide!

Tip from chef Thomas Sixt

3.4 Pineapple

The pineapple, the beautiful bromeliad fruit…

Which pineapple or other fruit would you like on your personal toast?

  • Fresh pineapple like the cayenne pineapple
  • Baby pineapple
  • Tinned pineapple in slices and the 50’s greet with greetings
  • Mango / Peach for a Karlovy Vary cut
  • Apple / Pear

Insider tip:

Before you put the fruits in the cheese hiding place, you can sprinkle them with a little brown sugar and caramelise them with the Crème Brûlée burner.

Gourmets place the fruits briefly in a hot pan with foamed butter, sprinkled with sugar and then flambé with rum.

3.5 Cheese

The spirits also differ when it comes to cheese.

How should your cheese be: mild, salty, creamy, spicy?

A few suggestions for you:

  • Cheddar, here are some great originals or industrialized goods
  • Processed cheese individually wrapped in foil – very evil
  • Semi-hard cheese or hard cheese such as Pecorino or Manchego
  • Mozarella
  • Mountain cheese or cave cheese
  • Cheese with blue mould

3.6 Decoration

Your fruity decoration may be rich in contrast.

Usually “red” is very popular:

  • co*cktail cherry / Amarena cherry / pickled cherry
  • Cranberries / cowberries / red jam
  • Raspberries / Currants / Blackberries
  • Fig

4. How Famous German Chefs Cook the Toast Hawaii Today

That’s what the German chefs and German TV chefs known today do:

Tim Mälzer prefers to prepare his toast with black bread, Serrano ham, pineapple and Manchego cheese.

Johann Lafer likes toast with American toast bread, German ham, pineapple and Allgäu mountain cheese.

Frank Rosin loves it classic and perfectly prepared with toasted bread, juicy ham, roasted pineapple and a strong cheddar.

Alexander Herrmann assembles his toast from tramezzini bread, cooked ham, baby pineapple, onion and grated Emmental cheese.

If you want to be creative to the power of 3, use great herbs, butter, garlic, cayenne pepper…

You can also put sliced boiled eggs or fried eggs on toast.

As a vegetarian, you’ll be scratching your hooves to ask for avocado cream or avocado.

Cucumber, Mediterranean vegetables (fried eggplant slices, grilled zucchini) and tomato (previously caramelized, melted, hmmmm…) are always a hit.

But then you deviate strongly from the classic version. But, it is YOUR toast!

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The night is young and so are we – Dreams come true with toast Hawaii 😉

Says Chef Thomas Sixt

5. More German Recipes

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FAQs

When was Toast Hawaii invented? ›

The invention of toast Hawaii is generally credited to TV chef Clemens Wilmenrod, who first introduced it in West Germany in 1955.

How many calories are in Hawaii toast? ›

Nutritional Summary:

There are 221 calories in 1 serving of Toast Hawaii.

Why is it called toast Hawaii? ›

In 1950s Germany, TV-cook Clemens Wilmenrod popularized a dish he named “Toast Hawaii,” an open-faced sandwich quite similar to Hawaiian pizza, the only difference being that instead of a pizza base, toast is used to carry pineapple, ham, and cheese.

What do Hawaiians say when they toast? ›

Hawaii. A common Hawaiian toasting tradition uses the phrase “i ke ola,”which means “here's to life,” according to Cheers!

How many calories are in 2 pieces of toast with butter? ›

Two buttered slices of bread have 350–400 Kcal. 2 slices of bread weigh 100–140 grams and to butter them you'll need around 20 grams or 1 tablespoon of butter. 20 grams of butter have around 120 kcal while 100 grams of bread contain 266 kcal.

Does toast have more or less calories? ›

Brown bread and toasted bread contain the same calories as white bread. It was always thought: white bread is more fattening than brown bread, toasted bread is lower in calories than white bread! However, they contain the same calories per serving!

When was Hawaiian bread invented? ›

Our mouthwatering tale begins in the 1950's in Hilo, Hawaii. There Robert R. Taira, the Hawaiian-born son of Japanese immigrants who graduated top of his baking class, opened his first bakeshop: Robert's Bakery. Here is where the first soft round loaves of the Original Hawaiian Sweet bread were made.

When was toast founded? ›

in May 2012. Toast, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

When did toast first appear? ›

The word toast comes from the Latin torrere 'to burn'. One of the first references to toast in print is in a recipe for Oyle Soppys (flavoured onions stewed in a gallon of stale beer and a pint of oil) from 1430. Toasting was likely first used to increase the edibility of bread that had become slightly stale.

What is the origin of the toast tradition? ›

Here’s to Ancient Greece

We don’t know exactly when the first toast was actually made. But we do know that it’s a tradition that dates back to the Ancient Greeks of 6th Century BC. The practice began as a praise to their gods in hopes for long health.

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