Sauerkraut apples and white wine are added in popular variations. Traditionally it is served warm, with pork (e.g. "eisbein", "schweinshaxe", "Kassler") or sausages (smoked or fried sausages, "Frankfurter Würstchen", Vienna sausages, black pudding), accompanied typically by roasted or steamed potatoes or dumplings ("knödel" or "schupfnudel"). Similar recipes are common in other Central European cuisines. The Czech national dish "vepřo knedlo zelo" consists of roast pork with "knedliky" and sauerkraut. In France, sauerkraut is the main ingredient of the Alsatian meal "choucroute garnie" (French for "dressed sauerkraut"), sauerkraut with sausages (Strasbourg sausages, smoked Morteau or Montbéliard sausages), charcuterie (bacon, ham, etc.), and
Choucroute garnie Choucroute garnie Choucroute garnie (French for "dressed cabbage") is a Alsatian recipe for preparing cabbage with sausages and other salted meats and charcuterie, and often potatoes. Although sauerkraut/cabbage is a traditionally German and Eastern European dish, when Alsace and Lorraine became part of France following the Westphalia peace treaties in 1648, it brought this dish to the attention of French chefs and it has since been widely adopted in France. In principle, there is no fixed recipe for this dish – any preparation of hot sauerkraut with meat and potatoes could qualify – but in practice there are certain traditions,