Choucroute Garni
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 2267.96 g fresh sauerkraut
- 118.29 ml bacon, cut into bits
- 3 clove garlic, chopped
- 1 bottle dry white wine
- 29.58 ml juniper berries
- 4.92 ml whole black peppercorn
- 4 cloves
- 340.19 g piece unsmoked bacon or 340.19 g piece ham
- 20-24 mixed sausages, cut into 2 inch lengths (frankfurter, bratwurst, knockwurst, etc.)
directions
- Soak the sauerkraut in a large bowl filled with cold water, and soak for 15 minutes.
- While sauerkraut is soaking, saute bacon, in a large oven proof pan, for 1 minute.
- Turn heat to medium-low, add the garlic and saute for another minute.
- Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees.
- Squeeze the sauerkraut dry, reserving 1 cup of the soaking water and add the sauerkraut to the pot.
- Stir well to blend with bacon.
- Add the reserved cup of soaking water, the white wine, the juniper berries, the peppercorns and the cloves.
- Bring to boil on top of stove and boil until the liquid has almost evaporated (about 20-30 minutes).
- Imbed the meats in the sauerkraut, cover the pot and cook in the oven until the meats are hot, about 30 minutes.
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Reviews
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Wonderful tasty dish! I like soaking the sauerkraut for this particular dish it gives the dish a very mild flavor. This recipe would lend itself beautifully to the crockpot (next time I will do it in a crockpot). I did not have Juniper berries so used 1/4 cup gin and cut back on the kraut water. I used all smoked sausages. When you say to saute the bacon obviously you mean the 1/2 cup of bacon, not the slab of bacon Thanks for a great dinner Tarynne
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Tarynne
Tujunga, California
I am 55 and I live in the Los Angeles area with my husband and 16 year old son. I enjoy trying new recipes especially ones that take a short time to cook. I enjoy reading and playing board games.