Choucroute Garnie
2013-10-22 18:18:22
Serves 4
A lush, filling, cold-weather meal
Prep Time
1 hr
Ingredients
- 1 Small Pork Roast 11/2-2 Lbs
- 1/2 Lb Pork Belly
- 3 Slices Thick Cut Bacon
- 1 Lb Pork Sausage- kielbasa, andouille, or any combination of your choice
- 2 Lbs Sauerkraut, rinsed and drained
- 1 Large onion chopped
- 2 Apples cored and chopped, but not peeled
- 2 Cloves Garlic, sliced
- 1 1/2 Cups Chicken Broth
- 1 1/2 Cups Riesling Wine
- 2 Bay Leaves
- 2 Tbl Fat, duck, or goose, chicken, or oil
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350
- Heat fat in heavy pan that has a good lid and can go into the oven
- Slice bacon into thirds and cook in fat until crispy, remove and set aside
- Cut pork belly into thick slices, and cook in fat from bacon until browned, remove and set aside with bacon
- Brown pork roast in fat on all sides and remove from pan
- Lower heat and add onions to pan
- When onions have started to soften add apples and garlic
- Saute until apples are soft
- Add Sauerkraut and bay leaf
- Pour wine and broth over vegetables
- Nestle meats on top of mixture, leaving bacon for last
- Cover and place in oven for 11/2 hours
- When time is almost up brown sausages on all sides
- Remove pot from oven, add sausages to pot, replace cover and return to oven for an additional thirty minutes
- To serve, use slotted spoon to remove sauerkraut mix to platter, remove bay leaf and discard
- Slice pork roast into 1/2" slices, cut sausages into thick pieces and lay all meat on sauerkraut, top with some of the pan juices.
- This is excellent with spaetzle, or egg noodles, and a crisp salad
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