I just bought some sauerkraut for hot dogs. I need to come up with other ways to eat it.
There was a local lady who made the best Kimchi but she quit making it. The local Asian market has decent Kimchi but I have to hide it from the wife.
Sauerkraut: I like to heat it in covered saucepan with some polish sausage links.
A Reuben is a good way to use it, with corned beef or pastrami; or cut up kielbasa and simmer it in the kraut. Yum!
The way to eat kraut is:
1. Ensure it is naturally fermented. If it’s on the shelf at the store, it is NOT. Naturally fermented kraut is refrigerated.
2. Never cook it. You kill all the probiotc benefit.
Eat it as a side dish, cold or room temp. Same as naturally fermented pickles.
Pork rib roast braised with the Sauerkraut and served with buttered mashed potatoes. I am drooling now.
I just made this “Sauerkraut Chowder” last week. I use only 4 oz of cream cheese instead of 8 oz and I add a teaspoon of Liquid Smoke. Absolutely delicious.
http://www.food.com/recipe/sauerkraut-chowder-96499#activity-feed
drain your sauerkraut....sauté some diced onion in butter on the stove top...add your sauerkraut and fry it up...add plenty of caraway seed and believe it or not, some salt....hmmmmmm..and if you have some polish kielbasa, all the better...
Sauerkraut is useless for health unless it is made with fermented cabbage, not vinegar.