Choucroute Garni
This choucroute garni recipe is a hearty classic - tangy sauerkraut, smoky meats and warming spices come together in a delicious dish from eastern France.
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Ingredients
Method
Preheat oven to 180°C. Melt butter in a pan over medium heat and sauté meats until brown. Remove meats, add onion and cook until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add remaining ingredients and bring up to a simmer. Transfer sauerkraut to a baking dish and arrange meats on top.
Choucroute can be chilled until ready to serve at this point, and then baked for 40-45 minutes, until bubbling. To hold while entertaining, reduce oven temperature to 95°C and cover loosely with foil.
Serve choucroute with a variety of mustards, sour cream (that’s Anna’s choice) and a side of buttered, boiled potatoes.
Alsace’s ultimate comfort dish.
This choucroute garni recipe brings the history of eastern France cookery straight to your kitchen, with roots firmly planted in the Alsace region. The name translates simply as “garnished sauerkraut”, but don’t let that modest description fool you - this is a dish that’s all about abundance. Traditionally, it combines fermented cabbage with a selection of sausages and cured pork, slowly cooked until everything’s tender, fragrant and savoury.
And the best bit is that you don’t need a rustic farmhouse kitchen in Strasbourg to make it work at home. The process is wonderfully straightforward - everything’s gently simmered, then baked until bubbling. You end up with a choucroute garni recipe that’s rich, tangy, and seriously satisfying.
One of the joys of choucroute garni dishes like this one is its flexibility. Traditional versions call for Frankfurt, Strasbourg, and either Morteau or Montbéliard sausages, but you can also add ham hocks, bacon and salted pork as well as easily mixing and matching depending on what you have to hand. Serve your choucroute garni recipe piled high on a platter for a proper centrepiece, ideally with boiled potatoes or crusty baguettes.
And once you’ve mastered this Alsatian classic, we’ve got some similarly scrumptious choucroute garni ideas for you, including grilled kielbasa with sauerkraut and onions, the classic German sauerbraten, and the iconic Wiener schnitzel.
