I opened a new jar of my homemade sauerkraut sometime back and was just eating it out of the jar. Thought to myself, there ought to be a recipe for a sauerkraut salad some place. Looked around on the web and really didn't find anything interesting. Started fooling around with it and finally came up with this. Another way to enjoy the stuff, other than cooking it. Adds to a meal really well, especially to those of us who love this stuff. Now, my recipe is simply 3 tbsp of salt to 5 lbs of shredded cabbage--layer it in a crock and beat down each time you add a layer. On top of each layer, I add a tbsp of caraway seed, maybe a little more. Anyway, its a recipe from my parents and I truly love it. Here's my salad recipe.
1/4-3/8 cup
chopped carrots
chopped celery, onion
chopped bell peppers
chopped sliced Manzanilla Olives with Pimento
chopped dill pickles
Anything else you like
1 pint of homemade sauerkraut
Total, 1/2 cup of sauerkraut juice, olive juice and pickle juice.
1/4 cup of EVOO (optional)
Oops, forgot and had to edit. I put about 3/4 cup of elbow macaroni in mine, any pasta would do. I put in the small macaroni like that used in the original Mac & Cheese.
Chop it all up, toss it all up and enjoy. I can eat this stuff as a bedtime snack, I swear. I use no "heat" in mine, as my wife cannot tolerate it. If it was just me, I'd add some chopped pickled jalapenos in it. I can always do that in my portion.