About once a year, my Italian mother will step away from her fabulous risotto making and make a traditional Bavarian dish at my dad’s request. I remember as a child that I would dread the night when she made pork chops and sauerkraut. Sauerkraut is so something that I wasn’t used to eating. But eventually, I started loving it. Sauerkraut, pork, and dumplings taste so good when it is cooked in brown sugar and apple juice.
Since it is almost October, and thus Octoberfest season, I decided it was about time to try to make this classic dish of my childhood in my pressure cooker, because why not? I feel like my pressure cooker enhances the flavor of almost everything I have made in it. One thing I love about my pressure cooker is that you get a meal that tastes like it has been cooking in a slow cooker all day.
My kids don’t always like eating new foods, but they all were good sports and ate their food, and even liked it! My 4-year-old kept asking for more pork. I think that was his favorite part, and it is true, the pork was super tender and flavorful.
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This Pork dish was super flavorful, sweet, and the meat turned out perfectly tender. Adding brown sugar to the sauerkraut and the apple juice to this dish truly made it a kid-friendly recipe. If you genuinely want this dish to be ” Bavarian,” the addition of the dumplings is a must. The addition of the dumplings to this dish makes it an actual one-pot meal that can be prepared in less than thirty minutes or less.
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Bavarian Pork Roast with sauerkraut and dumplings
Ingredients
- 1 Smithfield Roasted Garlic & Cracked Black Pepper Fresh Pork Tenderloin
- 1 15 ounce can sauerkraut
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3 large carrots, chopped
- 1 large leek, chopped- only the white and light green part of the leek
- apple, cut into slices
- 1/2 cup apple juice
Dumplings
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- dash of salt
Instructions
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Mix the ingredients together for the dumplings and set aside.
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Set your pressure cooker to saute. Add the butter, brown sugar and sauerkraut. Mix over heat.
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Add Pork roast, leeks, apples and carrots.
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Drop 1-2 inch dumplings into your pot. You can use a spoon to drop them in.
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Pour apple juice over everything
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Cook on high pressure for 20 minutes.
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Let naturally release.
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Arrange the food in a baking dish. Or just serve right out of your Instant Pot pan!
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