Creamy cabbage soup
Made from Vinschgau farmer’s sauerkraut
Ingredients:
• 120 g fresh sauerkraut
• 90 g potatoes
• ½ onion, chopped
• 50 g butter
• 1 litre meat or vegetable stock
• 225 ml cream
• 1 small piece of belly of pork (optional)
• 50 ml white wine
• 3 juniper berries, crushed
• ½ bay leaf
• Salt, pepper from the pepper mill
Preparation:
Peel and dice the potatoes. Braise the onion in butter and add the potatoes and sauerkraut. Deglaze with white wine and top up with stock. Add bay leaf, juniper berries and belly of pork and cook for ½ hour. Add the cream and then remove the bay leaf, juniper berries and belly of pork after 10 minutes. Season the soup and blend. Pass through a sieve if necessary.
Presentation:
Add for example:
• fried slices of black pudding
• baked calf’s head praline
• bacon breadsticks
• smoked meat
• smoked fillet of trout