Wurst Mit Sauerkraut

total time:: 1 hour

Makes 4 servings

from Clay: We don’t just throw sausages on the grill! This is classic German home cooking. Serve the wursts on top of the kraut on a platter with some good, hot or medium-hot mustard on the side, Hengstenberg. Kielbasa isn’t German, but it works excellently in this dish.

ingredients

8 German sausages (bratwurst, mettwurst, weisswurst, blutwurst, bockwurst, etc.)
1 large yellow onion, peeled, halved and sliced into half-moons
8 slices bacon
1 tart apple
1 c. each: apple cider and chicken stock
1 bag or jar sauerkraut (please don’t use that nasty metallic canned kraut!)
1 t. caraway seeds
salt and pepper

directions

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1. Rinse the kraut!
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2. Fry the bacon in a large pan. Remove the bacon and drain it, leaving the drippings in the pan. Over medium heat, cook the onion in the bacon drippings until soft.
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3. Core and shred the apple and add the shredded apple to the pan, then add the rinsed kraut. Nestle the sausages in the kraut, then add the caraway, cider and stock. Crumble the bacon and add it. Bring to a boil, turn the heat down low, and simmer for an hour, uncovered, turning the sausages from time to time, until the liquid is nearly evaporated.
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4. Pile the kraut onto a platter, then place the sausages on top and serve with a good, hot mustard, and a good dark rye.

Source: Clay Marc Bond