I personally don't care for pork/sauerkraut cooked in a crockpot. I do it in the oven. Bake whatever pork I've chosen until it has about an hour to go. Then I add the sauerkraut.

I've also done it in a pressure cooker. Brown the pork first and cook for a while alone. Then add the sauerkraut for 10 to 20 minutes.

Shirley

You could just put them together and slow cook it and it would be fine. Or you might want to brown the roast first but it's not necessary. I think just the pork will add enough flavor but you could add a bit of brown sugar. My MIL adds garlic cloves and they get nice and soft and sweet when it's done cooking. The final dish isn't overly garlicky because she puts the cloves in whole. You could also add some chopped apple.

I find this is one dish that is really forgiving. You can tinker with it and add things but at long as your sauerkraut is good and the pork has some fat, it will turn out well.

Thanks for the post.

Adding to my grocery list: cabbage and sausage.

We are supposed to have bad weather headed our way first of next week.

OK--thanks. I was thinking the sauerk. might be too cooked if I put it in from the beginning.

I always put mine in my small Nesco...just throw in the roast and spread the kraut around it.I also add a can of beer or an apple halved.Take the spple ot before serving.Takes the gassines out of the kraut but doesn't change the flavor.I used an apple on New Year's because Larry only had 1 bottle of beer left and I didn't want to take his last beer! LOL! I normally use the beer instead of the apple though.Some people put onion in it,but I don't care for the taste of it with onion....or brown sugar!

Oh that sounds good, chubby. Now, I had to google to find out what a Nesco is. It cooks hotter than a crock pot? So maybe I could do it on the stovetop or a roasting pan with lid in the oven?

My mom always cooks hers in the oven.Put it all in a roaster with a lid.Jusr make sure it doesn't dry out,add water as needed.I use the Nesco just because I have it. :)
It's a little electric roaster oven and has degrees on it just like the oven. I start at 350,then turn it down to 250. I use the electric roaster more than the crock pot.Can make anything in it.
Oh! I also put hotdogs in it about 15 mins before we eat.hotdogs cooked in saurkraut are great.In a bun topped with saurkraut and pork...yummm! I make mashed potatoes with the meal too....top them with the saurkraut.

and for a nice change look for bavarian kraut with caraway seeds..sort of nice sweet/sour flavor (don't need brown sugar) it really depends on how fat the roast is...if it has quite a bit, i'd oven roast...like emeril used to say, nothing like browned pork fat!!

I do prefer to cook this in the oven (in a Dutch oven) but I've made it in the crockpot and even on the stovetop (this requires some extra liquid) and it always works out.

Yes, you can just put it in the crockpot together and do nothing else to it.

Here is how I usually do mine. DMIL was Polish!

A couple of T. of butter in skillet, saute medium onion. Add about 1 T of sugar. Stir in kraut. Cook for a few minutes. Add to pork in whatever pot you are going to cook it in. (If the kraut is really salty, rinse in cold water before adding to onion mixture). Cook until pork is tender.

Sometimes you do need to add a little liquid along the way.

DH loves his kraut on top of mashed potatoes with some of the pan juice over it all. Add whatever veggie you want for a side.

Tami...who doesn't eat the kraut!

I always cook my pork first, I want it good and brown before I add the kraut. I mix some garlic, chopped onion, apple and caraway seeds to the sauerkraut and add it in about 90 minutes before it is time to eat. I like my kraut browned as well.

My mom used to make pork ribs with sauerkraut on the stove, eaten over rice. She didn't add anything to it at all. I love it, comfort food, but my kids don't so I rarely make it.

pork + kraut + bottle of beer = tasty dinner

All put in the crockpot at the same time.

I sauteed onions, threw in the 'kraut with some caraway seeds and sliced apples, put it around the pork shoulder roast in a covered roasting pan, poured a can of beer over it. Cooked about 2.5 hours. Yummy. Only problem is the roast has a lot of fat. Pork loin would be leaner, but probably would not fall apart like the shoulder.

I didn't put any sugar in because the apple and beer have sugar.

When cooking saurkraut if you add two tbs of carraway seed per pound of kraut you won't get gas from it.