Ingredients:
Potato dough
- 300 g floury potatoes
- 100 g wheat flour
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 pinch nutmeg, salt, shortening
Sauerkraut
- 500 g pickled cabbage
- 3/4 l water
- juniper berries
- peppercorns
- 1/2 tsp caraway seeds
- 1 bay leaf
- 50 g butter
- 100 g onion, diced
- 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp flour, salt
Preparation time: 60 minutes
Preparation:
- Pour water over the pickled cabbage, add the spices and herbs, season with salt and simmer for approx. 1.5 hours. Sauté the garlic and onion in the butter, sprinkle with flour, lightly fry, mix into the cabbage and cook for 10 minutes.
- Peel the potatoes, dice and boil in salted water for 20 minutes. Leave to cool slightly, push through a potato ricer and mix with the egg yolk and melted butter. Knead the flour, nutmeg and salt into the cooled mixture. Roll out the dough into a 2 mm thick sheet, cut into pieces and fry in hot fat.
- Serve the potato leaves with the sauerkraut.
Wine recommendation:
Weinberg Dolomiten Pinot Nero Abraham Art 2018
The Sauerkraut:
In the Venosta Valley, after harvesting, the cabbage is still stamped with the feet to initiate lactic acid fermentation and eliminate air pockets between the layers of cabbage.
© Astrid Kircher