Quick Choucroute

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The accepted crockery from Alsace Lorraine, usually comprising galore kinds of sausages, pork belly and brackish pork, slow-cooked successful sauerkraut, tin instrumentality hours to make. This mentation takes acold little clip and incorporates caller cabbage, leeks and mushrooms to chopped the assertiveness of the sauerkraut. Using chickenhearted oregon turkey sausage reduces the abdominous contented portion maintaining the dish's heartiness.

Serve with Dijon oregon whole-grain mustard connected the broadside and, if you wish, boiled potatoes.

The choucroute tin beryllium made a time oregon 2 successful beforehand and mildly reheated, but you hazard drying retired the sausages that way.

Ingredients

2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Four 4-ounce caller sausages, specified arsenic chicken, pork oregon turkey
12 ounces peppered bacon, chopped into 2-inch pieces
1 ample yellowish onion, chopped into precise bladed slices
1 ample leek, achromatic and light-green parts, halved lengthwise, chopped into 1-inch pieces and washed well
8 ounces cremini mushrooms, stemmed and sliced thick
4 ample cloves garlic, crushed
1 spoon caraway seed
1 spoon juniper berries
1 ample bay leaf
1 tiny caput (2 pounds) achromatic cabbage, cored and shredded
1 cupful hard cider
2 cups sauerkraut, squeezed dry
Dijon mustard oregon whole-grain mustard, for serving

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
700
Fat
53 g
Saturated Fat
17 g
Carbohydrates
19 g
Sodium
2030 mg
Cholesterol
100 mg
Protein
34 g
Fiber
7 g
Sugar
9 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Washington nutrient writer David Hagedorn, co-author with cook Cathal Armstrong of "My Irish Table: Recipes From the Homeland and Restaurant Eve" (Ten Speed Press, March 2014).

Tested by David Hagedorn.

Published February 25, 2014

Updated March 14, 2026