2007-03-08 05:11:41 · 4 answers · asked by alex 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
choucroute is french for sauerkraut. Choucroute by itself is just fine, (think of eating just sauerkraut for lunch).
But where choucroute gets its powers is in the choucroute garnie dish, a famous alsatian recipe where sauerkraut is prepared and cooked with white wine (usually a dry alsatian white wine), sausages (montbeliard sausage), patatoes, pork cutlets (usually petit sale), some ham, pork shoulder (cooked for a long time so the meat falls off the bone) and sometimes goose or duck (usually not).
Do not believe stories where folks add apples and other greens thingies, you may find whole black peppercorns though, someitmes garlic (not much though).
yummy choucroute, now I'm hungry thanks for the question.
2007-03-08 05:24:23 · answer #1 · answered by Xavier 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
xavier has provided a great answer, but I have an additional comment... It's definitely the french word for Sauerkraut... but the dish is still german in its origins (the French annexation of Alsace and Lorraine following the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 brought this dish to the attention of French chefs and it has since been widely adopted in France).
it's interesting to note that outside Germany and the US, everywhere I've been to (argentina, brazil, europe) this dish is **always** called Choucroute (Garni), and that when I moved to the US I had no idea that Sauerkraut was german for it...
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ah, and by the way...
Choucroute in French is also the name of a sort of beehive hair style with a slightly disorderly appearance, first sported by French actress Brigitte Bardot in the 1960s. Her blond hair arranged in such a hairstyle was deemed reminiscent of choucroute heaped high on a plate, hence the name.
2007-03-08 06:21:06 · answer #2 · answered by tino 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alsatian Choucroute
2016-10-31 23:46:13 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I have. I actually live about 3 hours away from Strasbourg. We were there two years ago with the company for a Christmas party. The coucroute was Delicious and Strasbourg was freezing cold. We stayed inside mostly because of the wind and sleet.
2016-03-15 02:26:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a French dish, you can read more on wikipedia at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choucroute
2007-03-08 09:46:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anamika 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋