Sauerkraut: 1 kg sauerkraut
1 small onion
1 tbsp. clarified butter
0.25 liters of beef broth
dumplings: 250 g flour
400 ml milk
4 eggs
250 g bread rolls, diced Salt
parsley
Pork knuckles: Rinse the stilts, rub dry, season and shape in a roasting pan. Remove the skin from the root vegetables, cut into large cubes, add to the pork knuckles and a small amount of water. Roast in a convection oven at 140 °C for about 2 1/2 hours. Turn them from time to time to the other side and pour the beer over them a couple of times (always make sure that there is enough meat stock).
Then remove the stilts and keep them warm. Pour a little water over the roast stock and loosen with a brush, then strain through a hair sieve and bring to the boil. In the meantime, mix 1 tbsp. flour with water until smooth and thicken the sauce with it, perhaps seasoning it with a little garlic, salt, pepper, caraway powder and marjoram.
Sauerkraut: dice the onion and fry lightly in clarified butter, extinguish with the beef broth. Add the sauerkraut and cook until the liquid has evaporated (you can keep 1/3 of the cabbage and heat it up at the end of the cooking because of the vitamin C content).
Dough dumplings: put the flour in a suitable bowl and mix with the milk until smooth. Add eggs, salt and parsley. Fold in the diced bread and let it sit for a while. Form the dumplings and boil them in salted water for about 15 to 20 minutes (depending on the size).
Serve with bird