VIDEO: Cooking fresh sauerkraut

Prepare to cook the sauerkraut

1. First peel the onion and simply pin the bay leaves to it with cloves. In this way, these spices can later easily be fished out of the pot together.
2. If the bacon is still whole, you should now cut it into nice little pieces. This way you will have the pieces of bacon well distributed in the sauerkraut.
3. Now heat the lard in a saucepan. When it sizzles nicely, add the sauerkraut to the pot and season it with salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and a little sugar, depending on your taste.
4. Sear the cabbage with the spices, stirring frequently, until everything looks lightly browned.
5. Then add the onion with the infected spices to the herb.


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6. Now with Apple juice or poured white wine.
7. Then give so much water in the saucepan until the sauerkraut is a little covered with water and simmer gently.

It takes time to cook fresh sauerkraut

• While the fresh sauerkraut is cooking, you have to check again and again whether there is still enough water in the pot. This evaporates over time and therefore has to be topped up again and again. It will be most delicious if you add a little soup broth to fill it up, so that the sauerkraut gets even more flavor.
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• Cooking fresh sauerkraut can take up to two hours in a normal saucepan. Just try after an hour and a half and if necessary just cook it a little more.
• If you want a particularly creamy sauerkraut, you can puree a soft-boiled potato towards the end of the cooking time and stir it into the sauerkraut.

to sauerkraut Of course, you either need a delicious smoked pork sausage or smoked sausages, both of which are also cooked or cooked in sauerkraut. can be heated. Bon Appetit!