Healthy Sauerkraut with Potatoes and Smoked Turkey Bits
Menu Sauerkraut with Potatoes and Smoked Turkey Bits Green Salad That is the beauty of sauerkraut, a staple in so many Eastern European cuisines. Served fresh, cabbage is a healthy food. But it is easily preserved through simple fermentation, rather than canning. More and more, we are coming to recognize the health benefits of fermented foods. But there is no denying it: Many elements of traditional Slovenian cooking make a contemporary health conscious cook cringe. It is heavy on meat, primarily pork. The fats aren’t the healthiest: lard, cracklings, bacon fat, and butter. And so many of the famous delicacies (potica, homemade noodles, struklji, zlikrofi, dumplings) are based on white flour. But I knew that it was possible to do healthy makeovers. I had been doing it myself. From the beginning of my cooking project, I used olive oil in place of other fats, except for baking. I was pretty sure that contemporary Slovenian ...