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Pork with dumplings and cabbage
Braised pork with bread dumplings and soured cabbage. Czechia's unofficial national dish.
6 servings · 180 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients
Quantities for 6 servings.
- 1.5 kg Pork shoulder
- 500 g Flour, for the dumplings
- 250 ml Milk, warm
- 7 g Dry yeast
- 1 piece Egg
- 150 g Stale bread, in cubes
- 700 g Sauerkraut
- 3 piece Onions
- 2 tsp Caraway seeds
- 1 tbsp Sugar
- 60 g Lard
- 4 clove Garlic
- to taste Salt and pepper
Method
- Rub the pork with salt, pepper, caraway and garlic and leave it an hour at room temperature.
- Brown the pork in lard on all sides, add the onion and pour in water to half the height of the meat.
- Braise covered at 160 °C for an hour and a half, basting every twenty minutes.
- Knead a dough from the flour, warm milk with yeast, the egg and salt and let it rise forty minutes.
- Fold in the bread cubes, shape two logs and boil them ten minutes on each side.
- Stew the sauerkraut with onion, caraway and sugar for twenty-five minutes.
- Cut the dumplings with thread and the pork into slices, and serve with the cabbage under the pan juices.
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