Recipe: Perfect Lucky pork and sauerkraut

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Recipe: Perfect Lucky pork and sauerkraut Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Lucky pork and sauerkraut. Rinse the roast and pat dry with paper towels. Crush juniper berries and finely chop garlic. It's said that eating pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day brings good luck for the upcoming year.

Born and raised in southwestern PA and married to a Pennsylvania Dutch Country boy, the tradition of eating pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day is commonplace in our area.

Eating sauerkraut on New Year's is an old Pennsylvania Dutch tradition, said to bring good luck.

The traditional meal consists of pork and sauerkraut served together, with sauerkraut representing luck and the pig representing rooting into the New Year.

You can cook Lucky pork and sauerkraut using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Lucky pork and sauerkraut

  1. Prepare 3 lb of pork shoulder.

  2. It’s 8 cup of sauerkraut.

  3. You need 1/2 cup of dehydrated apples.

  4. You need 1/4 tsp of salt.

  5. Prepare 1/4 tsp of ground black pepper.

  6. Prepare 1/4 cup of honey.

  7. You need 1 tbsp of minced garlic.

  8. It’s 1/2 tbsp of dill weed.

  9. Prepare 1 tsp of dry mustard.

  10. Prepare 1/2 cup of apple juice/cider.

  11. It’s 1/4 cup of oil.

  12. Prepare 1 of large onion, chopped.

It's a feel-good and flavorsome ritual and it may be just what you need to start the New Year.

Some people eat pork on the first day of the year in the hopes it will bring a lucky and prosperous year..

Though the exact origins of eating pork and sauerkraut together on New Year's Day is.

Season pork liberally with salt and pepper.

Lucky pork and sauerkraut step by step

  1. In an oven safe dish heat oil. Preheat oven 325° Fahrenheit.

  2. Brown the pork on all sides, and add sauerkraut, onion and the spices. Add the salt to the meat..

  3. Add honey over the top of everything. Add cider and apples also..

  4. Bake in oven 5 hours when done shred the meat and mix with sauerkraut let rest 10 minutes serve hope you enjoy!.

  5. If no apple cider juice or cider, in the store they have apple cider powdered drink mix you can use that. Just add water..

In a large dutch oven over medium-high heat, heat oil.

Crockpot and Instant Pot Version for Pork & Sauerkraut.

Read the notes on how to do this.

With regards to the Instant Pot, I don't use it on this recipe.

I don't use the IP on this recipe as it's more steps and a PITA.