11 Delicious Ways to Cook with Sauerkraut

We all know fermented foods are great for gut health, but what do you actually do with them? Other than scooping a spoonful of sauerkraut onto your lunch plate (yawn!), how can you make fermented foods a regular, exciting part of your everyday cooking?

At BURP., we live by a simple mantra: if you’d eat a pickle with it, or it requires cabbage, you can add kraut instead (or better yet, as well!). Once you start thinking that way, the possibilities for cooking with sauerkraut are practically endless. From sandwiches and soups to stir-frys and stews, sauerkraut adds a burst of flavour and a boost of probiotics to almost any dish.

For years, it has been assumed that cooking fermented foods kills off all the good bacteria, making them no better for you than their unfermented counterparts. In actual fact, not only are the nutrients more readily available in a fermented food, fermented foods are generally more easily digested than un-fermented foods. And here’s the fun part: recent studies are showing that some microbes are more beneficial to us once they’ve died!! These so-called “zombie-biotics” continue to support gut health from beyond the microbial grave.

So while eating raw sauerkraut still takes the gold medal for probiotic power, silver goes to fermented-then-cooked dishes, and bronze to cooked but unfermented foods. However you use it, sauerkraut brings both flavour and function to your plate, and once you start cooking with it, you’ll never look back.

Ready to get inspired? Here are 11 delicious and creative ways to cook with sauerkraut - from breakfast favourites to hearty mains that will help you bring the power of fermentation into every meal of your story is that it’s going to continue to evolve and your site can evolve with it. Your goal should be to make it feel right for right now. Later will take care of itself. It always does.