Ingredient

Sauerkraut

Also called sour cabbage

Sauerkraut is made from leaves and can be used as a garnish, stuffing, or wrap. It pairs with caraway seeds, apple, white wine, pork, sausage, and potato.

Part used: Leaf
Cooked most in: Europe
Top country: Poland
Dishes: 8 in the catalogue

Photo: Daderot · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use sauerkraut

Typical ways to cook or use it

Garnish
Stuff
Wrap

Goes well with

Around the world

Where sauerkraut is cooked

8 dishes in the catalogue use sauerkraut. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Europe5

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list sauerkraut among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with sauerkraut

4 of the 8 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

Bigos
Poland
Schnitzel Pavlišov
Czechia
Rumpuć
Poland
Pork and sauerkraut casserole

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include sauerkraut.

Around the world

What sauerkraut is called

Names in 76 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
Chucrut · Chucru · Chucrú · Sauerkraut
French
choucroute
Italian
crauti · salcrauti · sarcrauti · cavoli acidi
Portuguese
chucrute · Sauerkraut
German
Sauerkraut · Weinkraut · Sauerkohl · Choucroute de poisson
Dutch
zuurkool · Sauerkraut
Greek
Ξινό λάχανο
Russian
квашеная капуста · капуста квашеная · квашенная капуста · квашение капусты
Polish
kapusta kwaszona · kiszona kapusta · kapusta kiszona · kwaszona kapusta
Arabic
كرنب مخلل · ملفوف مخلل · كرنب حامض · زوكروت
Persian
کلم‌ترش
Hebrew
כרוב כבוש · כרוב חמוץ

Show all 76 languages

Afrikaans
Suurkool
Albanian
Lakër turshi
Armenian
Թթու դրած կաղամբ
Azerbaijani
Kələm turşusu
Basque
Sauerkraut · Choucroute
Bavarian
Sauakraut · Sauerkraut
Belarusian
Капуста квашаная
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
квашаная капуста · кіслая капуста
Breton
Kaol-go
Bulgarian
кисело зеле
Cantonese
德國酸菜
Catalan
xucrut · Sauerkraut · Choucroute
Chinese
德国酸菜
Chuvash
Йӳçĕтнĕ купăста
Colognian
Suure Kappes
Croatian
Kiseli kupus
Czech
kysané zelí · kyselé zelí
Danish
sauerkraut · Surkål
eml
Sacrao
Esperanto
acida brasiko · Saŭrkraŭto
Estonian
hapukapsas
Faroese
súrkál
Filipino
Sauerkraut
Finnish
hapankaali
Georgian
მჟავე კომბოსტო
Gothic
𐍃𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌹𐍃
Hindi
ज़ावरक्राउट
Hungarian
savanyú káposzta
Icelandic
súrkál
Ido
Surkruto
Indonesian
Sauerkraut
Interlingua
Sauerkraut
Irish
cabáiste géaraithe
Japanese
ザワークラウト · ザウワークラウト · ザウアークラウト · サワークラウト
Javanese
Sauérkraut
Korean
자우어크라우트 · 자우어콜
Latvian
skābēti kāposti · skābi kāposti
Limburgish
zoermoos
Lithuanian
Rauginti kopūstai
lld
Craut
Low Saxon
zoerkool
Luxembourgish
Sauermous · Choucroute garnie · Sauerkraut
Macedonian
кисела зелја
Malay
Sauerkraut
Malayalam
സോസെർക്രൗട്ട്
Norwegian Bokmål
sauerkraut · Surkål
Norwegian Nynorsk
surkål
Punjabi
ਜ਼ਾਉਰਕਰੌਟ
Romanian
varză murată · varză acră
Serbian
кисели купус · Kiseo kupus
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Кисели купус
Serbian (Latin)
Kiseli kupus
Serbian (Latin)
Kiseli kupus
Simplified Chinese
德国酸菜
Simplified Chinese (China)
德国酸菜
Simplified Chinese (Singapore)
德国酸菜
Slovak
kyslá kapusta
Slovenian
Kislo zelje
Swedish
surkål · Sauerkraut
Swiss German
Sauerkraut
Tatar
тозлы кәбестә
Tatar (Cyrillic)
тозлы кәбестә
Thai
เซาเออร์เคราท์ · กระหล่ำปลีดอง · กะหล่ำปลีดอง
Traditional Chinese
德國酸菜
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
德國酸菜
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
德國酸菜
Ukrainian
квашена капуста · Кисла капуста · Капуста квашена
Upper Sorbian
kisykał · kisały kał
Vietnamese
Dưa cải Đức
Volapük
züdöfabrasid
Welsh
Sauerkraut · sauerkraut · bresych picl · bresych sur
Western Frisian
soerkoal
Wu Chinese
德式酸菜
Yiddish
זויערקרויט

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q154166

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