choucroute

[ shoo-kroot ]

noun

, French.

1. sauerkraut.

Example Sentences

The inspiration for cooking ham on the stove came from choucroute, a dish of smoked, cured and fresh pork simmered with sauerkraut and wine.

From New York Times

I learned to prepare the dish from Mr. Kreuther and the chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten while working on their cookbooks, which include the choucroute recipes they both grew up preparing in their native Alsace.

From New York Times

What I love most about choucroute is the way smoked ham hocks and slab bacon soak up the wine, perfumed with piney juniper berries, while becoming tender and staying juicy.

From New York Times

But choucroute garnie isn’t really from France, according to Françoise Branget, author of “French Country Cooking: Authentic Recipes from Every Region, and a former politician. “It arrived in France before the Revolution with the Swiss Guard of the ancien regime,” Branget writes.

From Washington Post

“At that time the dish merely consisted of cabbage. By the nineteenth century, potatoes were added. When various meats and charcuterie appeared with it, it became choucroute garnie.”

From Washington Post