Choucroute aux Quenelles de Foie

Name: Choucroute aux Quenelles de Foie (Alsace Choucroute with Liver Dumplings)
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: 10 juniper berries, crushed in a small bouquet garni bag; 2 garlic cloves, crushed in a small bouquet garni bag; 5 oz (150 g) goose fat or lard; 5 oz (150 g) goose fat or lard; 1 pint (600 ml) Riesling; 1 large onion stuck with 2 cloves; 1 large onion stuck with 2 cloves; 10 whole juniper berries in a small bouquet garni bag; 1 clove garlic; 5 lb (2.5 kg) potatoes, peeled; Salt and pepper; Salt and pepper; ½ oz (15 g) chervil, chopped; 3½ oz (100 g) smoked pork fat, finely chopped; 7 oz (200 g) pig’s liver, finely chopped; 1 large onion, finely chopped; 3 oz (75 g) white bread, crusts removed, soaked in milk and squeezed dry; 2 large eggs, beaten; ½ oz (15 g) parsley, chopped; 3 oz (75 g) white bread, crusts removed, soaked in milk and squeezed dry; Salt, pepper and nutmeg; Salt, pepper and nutmeg; 1½ oz (40 g) fine semolina; Salt, pepper and nutmeg; 1 small ham hock; 1 lb (500 g) smoked pork belly; 1 lb (500 g) lean smoked bacon, cut in ¼ in. (6 mm) slices; 3 lb (1.5 kg) smoked pork Join; 1 pig’s caul (fatty tissue covering pig’s liver); 6 pairs Strasbourg sausages

Alsace Choucroute with Liver Dumplings

Preparation info

Serves
12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Floyd on France

By Keith Floyd

Published 1987

About

You can ignore the liver dumplings! Or you can ignore the choucroute and just serve the dumplings with fried and slightly caramelised onion rings and home-made Tomato Ketchup.

Ingredients

For the Meats

1 small ham hock
1 lb (500 g) smoked pork belly

Europe
France
Main course

Method

Put all the smoked pork in cold water for a couple of hours to remove some of the salt.

To prepare the choucroute, wash in cold water and drain well. Fry the chopped onion in the goose fat in a large lidded flameproof casserole until translucent. Add the choucroute. Put in the bag of juniper and garlic and the onion stuck with cloves. Pour in equal amounts of Riesling and water to come