Sauerkraut
An authentic Sauerkraut recipe from a person with German ancestry.
Ingredients
- 1 large can sauerkraut
- ½ stick (¼ cup) butter
- 1 onion peeled and finely chopped
- 1 apple cored, grated, and chopped
- 1 potato peeled and grated
Optional:
- dry wine
- caraway seeds
Instructions
- Rinse the sauerkraut in 2 cans of water.
- Melt the butter in a large pan or Dutch oven.
- Add chopped onion and grated apple.
- Simmer on low heat, with cover on, for 5 minutes or so.
- Add rinsed sauerkraut and enough water to almost cover the ingredients in the pan.
- Mix well. (Could add the dry wine, and/or caraway seeds, at this point).
- Get the ingredients hot.
- Add grated raw potatoes gradually.
- Simmer for 5 minutes, to cook the potatoes.
- Serve, after the potatoes are cooked.
