Recipe: Pork Sausages with Bacon and Apple Sauerkraut

Ingredients:

• 150g pasture fed bacon
• 1 packet Pork Gourmet Sausages
• 1/4 cup oil
• 1 large onion, coarsely chopped
• 2 tbsp dry white wine (Riesling)
• 1 large sweet apple (Gala or Fuji) peeled, cored and cut into chunky pieces
• 12 juniper berries or caraway seeds or rosemary sprigs
• 4 bay leaves
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• salt and pepper
• 1 cup water
• 4 cups sauerkraut
• Wholegrain mustard (for serving)

Method:

• Heat 2 tbsp oil in a large saucepan and fry bacon until crisp.  Remove to plate.
• Turn heat to medium-low, add onion and partially cover pot with lid and simmer for about 20 minutes.  Increase heat to medium-high and add wine, apple, juniper berries, bay leaves, sugar, 1 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp pepper and boil for 3 minutes.  Add the water and sauerkraut and reduce heat to low.  Cover and cook for about 45 minutes until apple is tender.
• Cook the sausages.
• Spoon sauerkraut onto plate, arrange sausages on top, sprinkle with bacon and serve with mustard.