Sig's Reibekuchen with Sauerkraut
- 1 1/2 kg floury potatoes , I use Maris Piper (as I make use of the starch)
- 2 small brown onions
- 2 large eggs
- 250 grams sauerkraut
- 1 pinch salt or salt substitute
- 1 pinch ground black pepper
- 3/4 tbsp corn or potato starch (optional)
- 1 cup rapeseed oil or vegetable oil of choice
- First peel and wash your potatoes, cut them into smaller pieces and either grate them on a mandolin, grater or in food processor on grater blade.
- If you don't have any of those you can use a blender on a pulse setting to achieve the same result ,but you need to be careful not to over blend them or they end up like mashed potato.
- Squeeze out the potato with your hands , catch the liquid and set aside
- Now squeeze out the Sauerkraut, discard the sauer juices , add the Sauerkraut to the potatoes and mix well .
- Now squeeze out the potato and Sauerkraut mix , discard the liquid .
- Now carefully drain away the liquid from the potato water, you should be left with the potato starch , add this back to the potato and Sauerkraut and mix in well .
- If there is not at least one full table spoon of dissolved starch , add some bought corn or potato starch.
- Now grate the onion on a fine setting
- Add the onions, salt and pepper two eggs and mix well
- In the meantime heat a frying pan wit a few tablespoon of rapeseed oil
- With a tablespoon take out a heap full and carefully flattening this into a patty in the heated pan, take care not to burn yourself.
- Add another patty, cook no mor than two or three at time or it will be difficult to turn them.
- Drain on kitchen paper and serve either hot or cold .Every time you add two more cakes add a little more of the oil, until all the cakes are made.
- Here I served them with quark that I drained ,seasoned with dill, wild garlic ,salt and ground black pepper ,two teaspoons per person , which I spread on smoked salmon over a slice of pumpernickel another German delicatessen, I added a few prawns to have a complete meal.
- By any means use the same recipe just omit the Sauerkraut if you are not in favour of this , I just added them together as often they are served side by side.
- I have marked this as 2 servings, those would be generous servings.
- So you get away with 4 servings if you use the whole amount of recipe.
- If you double everything it makes 8 good portions.
potatoes, brown onions, eggs, sauerkraut, salt, ground black pepper, corn, rapeseed oil
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/365034-sigs-reibekuchen-with-sauerkraut (may not work)