Hello friends,
It's me again, back for SCC #36 with the theme: Food Fit For A German! This German-inspired food is dedicated for my good German friends who I met when I was living in France and also for our judge @ch00fy. I lived in two different cities in France and in both cities, Marseille and Bordeaux, I always made friends with people from Germany and we're getting along until now!! Even though now we have our separate way, we still keep in touch :-)
At first I wanted to make Black Forest Cake which is originally from Germany but I've just made chocolate cake recently, so I needed to come up with another idea. Then I remember seeing sauerkraut in my favorite organic shop from where I got the idea to make this delicious snack.
The recipe was inspired from here and I modified some of the ingredients.
Ingredients
- 2 small onions, chopped
- 280 gr Frankfurt sausages, cut into little pieces
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
- 500 gr drained sauerkraut
- 2 tbsp bread crumbs
- 200 gr cream cheese
- 3 small sticks celery, chopped
- 2 tsp mustard
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup panko
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 milk
Methods
- Heat cooking oil in a pan over medium high heat, stir fry chopped onion for a minute. Add in sausages, cook for about 5 minutes, set aside.
- In a large clean bowl, place sauerkraut, cream cheese, bread crumbs, celery, mustard, salt and pepper. Mix it well.
- Add in stir fried onion sausages to the mixture. Mix again.
- Once mixed, cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least one hour.
- In a small bowl, beat two eggs and milk. In two small bowls, put all purpose flour and panko separately.
- Preheat oven to 190°C and line baking tray with baking silicone mat or parchment paper. Scoop one full tablespoon of the mixture, form the into a ball.
- Coat with flour.
- Dip into egg-milk mixture.
- Coat with panko. In this stage, the sauerkraut balls can be frozen if you make a large batch. Thaw it overnight before baking.
- Place the sauerkraut balls onto baking tray.
- Bake for 20 minutes and then I put the tray under broiler to give a nice color to the balls for 2 minutes. Please do check often to prevent burning.
Actually, we can deep fry this sauerkraut balls and you'll have nicer golden brown color. But this time I opted for the healthier version so I baked it. I serve these goodness with mustard and hot chili sauce.
Ooops, before I forget, I'd like to thank everyone involved in SCC; the host, the sponsors, the previous and the current judges, also fellow contributors. Let's make SCC grow bigger :-)
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Many thanks,
