German
Gruenkohl mit Kassler (Braised Kale with Smoked Pork Chops)
Gruenkohl mit Kassler (Braised Kale with Smoked Pork Chops) is German home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 4 oz diced bacon
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 lb curly kale, stemmed and chopped
- 2 cups chicken or pork broth
- 1 bay leaf
- 4 Kassler (smoked pork chops)
- 4 links smoked pork sausage (Pinkel)
- 3 tbsp rolled oats
- 1 tbsp yellow mustard
- 2 lb potatoes, peeled and quartered
- 1 pinch ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Cook the diced bacon in a large pot over medium heat until the fat renders, about 5 minutes, then add the onion and cook until softened, about 4 minutes.
- Add the kale in batches, stirring until it wilts down, then pour in the broth, add the bay leaf, and nestle the Kassler chops and sausage into the pot.
- Cover and simmer over low heat for 90 minutes, turning the meat once or twice, until the kale is very tender and dark green.
- Meanwhile, boil the potatoes in salted water for 15 to 20 minutes, until fork-tender, then drain.
- Stir the oats, mustard, and nutmeg into the kale and simmer uncovered for 10 minutes more, until slightly thickened; season with the salt and pepper.
- Lift out the Kassler and sausage, slice, and serve over the kale with the boiled potatoes alongside.
Serve it with
A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Gruenkohl mit Kassler (Braised Kale with Smoked Pork Chops), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Gruenkohl mit Kassler (Braised Kale with Smoked Pork Chops) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables, Meat or fish, and Grains
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Gruenkohl mit Kassler (Braised Kale with Smoked Pork Chops) takes about 120 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on kale, pork, sausage, and potato.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from northern Germany.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
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