Moravianstylesauerkraut Recipes

Steps:

• Heat bacon drippings in a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onion until soft and translucent, about 5 minutes.
• Place sauerkraut with juice into a large bowl and cover with water. Stir and use your hands to squeeze out as much of the water and juice as possible. Add squeezed sauerkraut to onion.
• Stir brown sugar, caraway seeds, chicken stock, and cooking sherry into the sauerkraut mixture. Reduce heat to low and simmer until almost all the liquid has evaporated, 30 to 40 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Steps:

• Drain juice from kraut.
• With kraut still in bag add tap water.
• Pour kraut and water into a saucepan and heat over a low flame.
• Fry bacon, crumble and add to kraut, saving fat for onion.
• Sauté onion in fat till soft and add to kraut.
• Add potato to kraut.
• Simmer for 45 minutes.
• Make a roux by adding flour to bacon fat.
• If too sour add 1 tsp sugar to kraut.
• Good dining.

Steps:

• Drain the sauerkraut.
• Place in a saucepan and add the remaining ingredients.
• Warm slowly over very low heat.
• Serves warm over sausages.

Steps:

• Fry bacon until almost crisp.
• Add onion and cook until limp.
• Add rinsed sauerkraut.
• Add water to cover.
• Put caraway and juniper in a tea ball or wrap in cheesecloth so it can be removed later.
• Add bay leaf.
• Cover and let simmer for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
• Add more water if necessary.
• Should be juicy but not soupy.
• Remove spices.
• Stir in shredded potato.
• The potato will melt and turn saucy.
• Stir in wine.

Steps:

• Heat the butter in a large skillet with a lid over medium heat; cook and stir the onion and garlic until the onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in the water, potatoes, carrots, beef bouillon granules, sugar, and caraway seeds; bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer, and cook until the potatoes and carrots are tender, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes.
• Place the sauerkraut on top of the vegetables in a layer, and place the sausages onto the sauerkraut. Cover, and cook until the sausages are heated through, about 15 minutes.
• Whisk the flour into the sour cream in a bowl, and stir into the sauerkraut mixture. Bring to a simmer to thicken the sour cream, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and serve hot.

Steps:

• Mix cabbage and carrots in a large ceramic or glass jar at least 1 gallon in volume.
• Stir salt into spring water in a large bowl until dissolved; pour over cabbage mixture which should be completely submerged. Use an inverted small saucer to keep pressure on cabbage to keep it submerged in the liquid.
• Cover container with a clean kitchen towel. Poking holes through the cabbage mixture to the bottom of the container with the handle of a wooden spoon to help gas escape once a day, keep on counter at room temperature for 3 days.
• Pour a small amount of the liquid from the container into a small bowl; stir sugar into the liquid until dissolved. Return the liquid to the container.
• Cover container, again assuring the vegetables are submerged in liquid. Keep on counter for 2 days more, again poking holes into the mixture to help trapped gasses escape daily.
• Transfer vegetables and liquid to jars, seal, and refrigerate between uses.

Steps:

• Drain the sauerkraut only if it is too salty, otherwise use it with its own liquid.
• Heat the lard in a large saucepan.
• Take a handful of the sauerkraut and squeeze it dry.
• Put it in the hot lard and fry it until the sauerkraut has brown edges.
• Add the sauerkraut, apples, bay leaf, onion (if using), caraway seeds and 2 tablespoons of brown sugar.
• Add water to just barely cover the sauerkraut.
• Bring to a boil; lower the heat and simmer for about 2 hours, stirring occasionally.
• Add more sugar, if needed, gradually while the sauerkraut is cooking, tasting often.
• The sauerkraut should be pleasantly sweet-sour but not too sweet.

Steps:

• Weigh the shredded cabbage (as cabbages vary in size and weight) to ensure the salt to cabbage ratio is correct. The amount of salt you use should come to about 1.5-2.5%, but no more than 3%, of the cabbage weight.
• In a large bowl, mix and massage the salt through the cabbage thoroughly, making sure to distribute the salt evenly.
• Let it sit to sweat a bit-maybe 10 minutes. This is simply to make the next step easier. This is a good time to get your vessel cleaned and to rest up for the next stage.
• With your pounder, pound quite energetically for about 5-10 minutes, until the cabbage is dripping with its own salty water when you pick up a handful. This part is important as you need this liquid-it's your brine.
• You can also use the dough hook of a stand mixer to do the pounding part, which can speed things up somewhat. Don't let it run for too long though, only a few minutes. Using a mixer is easy and great for people who are doing this a lot and in large batches, but it takes quite a bit of the emotional release and fun out of it.
• Next, mix in the caraway seeds (if using).
• Put the mixture into the jar, packing it down tightly as you go using the pounder. Push down well, particularly at the end to coax out any more brine. You need the brine to cover the cabbage.
• Don't pack the cabbage all the way to the top; leave some headroom at the top of the jar to allow for a bit of growth and movement and, of course, the weight. You don't want the liquid touching the top of the lid, as it will end up spewing out of your air-lock or up out of your lid.
• Cover with a cabbage leaf (the follower), the weight and then your chosen lid or system.
• Depending on your ferment, you can start trying it as soon as you'd like, but the less you fiddle with it in the first 2 weeks, the better. It is ready when you think it is delicious. With the right system and temperature, you can leave it to ferment for months before refrigeration.
• If you used a crock, you'll need to decant the kraut to smaller jars before you refrigerate, unless you have a walk-in cool room, or large cellar. (Lucky you.) It will keep in the fridge for 12 months or more. Use your senses.