Raspberry Mustard

Deep red and berry-spicy, the secret ingredient for your dressing

Königskind Raspberry Mustard is a vibrant red mustard specialty made from 70% ripe raspberries and fine mustard seeds – handmade by Uwe König in his small gourmet manufactory in Oberbergisches Land. It’s the perfect secret ingredient for your salad dressing, the crowning touch for a cheese board, and a fruity-spicy accompaniment to bratwurst, game, and light meats.

Königskind Raspberry Mustard is a berry-spicy mustard specialty from the Oberbergisches Land region. With 70% raspberries, sugar, mustard seeds, a little water, vinegar, salt, and natural pectin, only a few honest ingredients go into the jar – without artificial flavors, colorings, preservatives, or flavor enhancers. Uwe König hand-prepares the raspberry mustard using regional, untreated fruit, processing the berries shortly after harvest to preserve their fresh acidity.

Vibrant red, berry-sweet, with a delicate mustard tingle

Once opened, the full aroma of ripe raspberries rises – sweet, fruity, with the slightly tart note of freshly picked berries, accompanied by the subtle undertone of mustard seeds in the background. The color is a vibrant, deep red with fine mustard seeds shimmering like dots between the raspberry layer. The consistency is velvety and spreadable, with whole raspberry pieces giving the mustard a rustic character.

On the tongue, this mustard begins with a full berry sweetness, followed by the fine raspberry acidity with its lively freshness. Finally, the mustard seeds provide a delicate tingle that becomes noticeable in the nose without being overpowering. The finish is long, fruity-fresh, and with a pleasant spiciness that is significantly milder than a classic Dijon. A delicate balance of sweetness, acidity, and mustard spice.

We recommend it with cheese, in salad dressing, and with game

Raspberry mustard is perfect on a cheese board – especially with mature goat cheese, creamy Brie with its white rind, French Camembert, or strong blue cheese. The raspberry sweetness complements the cheese's savoriness, while the mustard seeds add an aromatic accent. One tablespoon on crusty baguette, a few fresh berries, and you have an aperitif with summer color.

We also love it as a secret ingredient for homemade salad dressing: stir 2 teaspoons of raspberry mustard into a vinaigrette of olive oil, white balsamic vinegar, and a touch of honey – this creates a bright red dressing for lamb's lettuce with pan-fried chicken breast, for mixed green salad with fresh goat cheese, or for a summery arugula salad with Parmesan shavings. The 70 percent fruit content ensures that the mustard doesn't become the dominant flavor, but rather serves as a fruity base.

We also enjoy raspberry mustard with game and robust meats: with saddle of venison and red cabbage, with pink-roasted duck breast, with wild boar goulash, or with a classic Thuringian bratwurst from the grill. The berry acidity enhances the meat flavors and provides a refreshing counterpoint. You can find more mustard specialties from the Königskind kitchen, such as the sweet-fruity pear mustard and the spicy-coarse fig mustard, as well as matching fruit spreads and chutneys in our Königskind collection.

The Königskind Gourmet Manufactory by Uwe and Sabine König

The Königskind gourmet manufactory is the passion project of Uwe König and his wife Sabine. What began as a hobby in their home kitchen in 2005 grew into a full-time business in 2014 due to increasing demand for their mustards, chutneys, and fruit spreads. To this day, all Königskind products are cooked in their kitchen under the "Ziegenbusch" in Wiehl – all by hand, in manageable quantities, with the care that only a small family manufactory can provide.

Uwe König uses exclusively regional, untreated berries for his raspberry mustard and consistently avoids artificial flavors, colorings, preservatives, and flavor enhancers. This is the Königskind philosophy: a few honest ingredients that still taste like the fruit and the season in which they were picked. In addition to raspberry mustard, we also carry pear mustard, fig mustard, chutneys, fruit spreads, and the legendary black walnuts from the same kitchen – all products with the same signature style.