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🥘 A French dish 🥬 Fermented cabbage
choucroute

choucroute

9.9
A French dish of cooked sour cabbage with sausages and meats from Alsace
  • noun
  • /ˈʃuːkruːt/
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  • This would be followed by a more profitable half-time meal of choucroute garnie for twelve Bronco fans at the Dawsons' house.

Examples

  • Packing up the choucroute, I remembered Audrey Coopersmith.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • He said he'd called for a window-repair person to come out tomorrow, and he wasn't in the mood to do his homework, so could he help with the choucroute for the Bronco lunch?

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Once the beef had defrosted slightly under cold running water, I cut it into thin slices, sloshed them around in the marinade, and finished packing up the choucroute and trimmings.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • For dinner, we enjoyed a traditional choucroute, a dish of sauerkraut served with sausages and various meats.

  • The restaurant is famous for its choucroute garnie, featuring a mountain of sauerkraut topped with flavorful meats.

  • Every Christmas, we make choucroute, a hearty meal of sauerkraut accompanied by different types of pork.

Surface Forms

choucroute singular
choucroute plural

Etymology

Choucroute comes from the German parts sauer and kraut, which mean 'sour cabbage'. Think of a hot plate of that sour, fermented cabbage with sausages and meat — that's why choucroute refers to the hearty Alsace dish served with meats.