Do you like sauerkraut?

So I started making sauerkraut for the probiotic benefits. Its pretty good but I find it too salty to just eat plain by itself. So far Ive been using it to top beyond burgers with. (I'm mainly vegetarian.) Anyone have any other ideas on how I could eat it? If you like it with meat I'd still like to hear about it.

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Poppies · 61-69, F

I like it on hot dogs. I also rinse it twice during my long New Year's cooking process (boiling and roasting with pork loin ribs) and it is delicious, but I am pretty sure that between the rinsing and the heat all the probiotics are eliminated.
As an alternative, I suggest kimchi. I scramble an egg and after it is cooked, I stir in a little kimchi. I figure the probiotics are not damaged in that process. Maybe you could stir in fresh cold sauerkraut instead; I've never tried that.

FrogManSometimesLooksBothWays · M

@Poppies Sauerkraut for New Years?

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Poppies · 61-69, F

@FrogManSometimesLooksBothWays Always! Pennsylvania Dutch influence where I come from

FrogManSometimesLooksBothWays · M

@Poppies I'm from the Keystone state!

NativePortlander1970

@Poppies I make this awesome pork roast and saurkraut dish, with sweet Italian sausage links and sliced yellow sweet onion, in the crockpot, but I rinse it out and add a half cup each of grape and apple juce for its eight hour cooking time. After it's finished I put the liquid, sauerkraut, and onions in a large skillet to boil off, once the liquid is gone, I add about 1 1/2 tableapoons of butter and a dash of salt and caramelize the kraut and onions, it goes great with mashed potatoes, or spaetzle if you want to be more traditional, which would also have bratwursts instead of sweet Italian sausage links. cc: @cherokeepatti @Zaphod42

Poppies · 61-69, F

@NativePortlander1970 Sounds delicious! I add different liquids every year! depending on what's in the house. Uusually some kind of alcohol. And some unsalted chicke broth. And instead of butter I use a little bacon grease!

NativePortlander1970

@Poppies My late Fiancee made it for me xmas 2001 the first time I had it, it was a traditional dish with her family. Being a serious home gourmet I actually wasn't impressed with it, it had no flavor, it was blah, so I decided to tweak it a bit and came up with my own version, which I gave you, and served it to her entire family the next xmas, even her culinary school trained Chef little brother was massively impressed with it and wanted to give me a job at his restaurant he Exec'd at, but I was working for a security firm when he offered and I declined.