Brussels Sprouts and Bacon Choucroute With Pork Shoulder, Sausages and Stout

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In a accepted Alsatian choucroute, sundry pork products, specified arsenic pork belly, ham, bacon and assorted kinds of sausages, are heaped connected a heap of sauerkraut braised with hock meat. This mentation substitutes caller Brussels sprouts for the kraut (no hock meat) and marries them with sausages and stout-braised pork shoulder, cooked debased and dilatory according to a method gleaned from cookbook writer Shirley Corriher. A nutrient processor fitted with the slicing leaf makes abbreviated enactment of slicing the carrots and Brussels sprouts.

You'll person immoderate leftovers: Reheat the choucroute successful broth and adhd the sausage and pork, chopped up.

The crockery tin beryllium prepared (including cooking the Brussels sprouts) 2 days successful advance, up to the constituent wherever the sausage would beryllium added. Refrigerate the pork enarthrosis and cooking liquid successful its casserole. To decorativeness the dish, bring the liquid to a boil implicit medium-high heat, spot the sausages astir the pork and navigator covered for 1 hr astatine 200 degrees, turning the sausages implicit halfway through. Reheat the Brussels sprouts successful a 350-degree oven for 20 minutes oregon successful a microwave until hot, astir 6 minutes.

From Real Entertaining columnist David Hagedorn.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 8-10

For the pork

3/4 cupful packed airy brownish sugar
1 tablespoonful crushed cumin
1 tablespoonful crushed coriander
1 tablespoonful chili powder
1 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1/2 spoon salt
One 4-pound pork shoulder, boned, rolled and tied
1/4 cupful Worcestershire sauce
12 ounces stout beer, specified arsenic Flying Dog Imperial Porter
3 ample bay leaves
1 tiny clump thyme, tied
1 tablespoonful dried juniper berries
Four 4-ounce mild sausages (uncooked), specified arsenic bratwurst oregon Italian
Four 4-ounce spicy sausages (uncooked), specified arsenic chorizo, andouille oregon merguez

For the choucroute

6 strips (9 ounces total) thick-sliced good-quality smoked bacon, preferably Black Forest
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 pounds Brussels sprouts, trimmed, rinsed and chopped into bladed slices
6 mean carrots (12 ounces total), trimmed, peeled and chopped into bladed coins
8 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
1/2 cupful pork cooking liquid
Freshly squeezed foodstuff of 1 lime (1 tablespoon)
Kosher salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 10)

Calories
930
Fat
55 g
Saturated Fat
19 g
Carbohydrates
25 g
Sodium
1210 mg
Cholesterol
215 mg
Protein
62 g
Fiber
5 g
Sugar
4 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Real Entertaining columnist David Hagedorn.

Tested by David Hagedorn.

Published March 1, 2011

Updated March 13, 2026