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Vepřo Knedlo Zelo

Name: Vepřo Knedlo Zelo
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Czech Republic
Ingredients: 800g (in one piece) Pork Shoulder; 2 Onion; 3 cloves Garlic; 2 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 400g Sauerkraut; 1 tbsp Sugar; 1 tbsp Vinegar; 250g Bread flour; 1 tsp Dry yeast; 130ml Milk; 1 Egg; 2 Bread; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil

Main Dish

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Roast pork, knedlíky, and braised cabbage on one plate — the Czech people's beloved national dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Vepřo knedlo zelo means 'pork, dumplings, cabbage' and is the Czech Republic's most beloved national dish. Caraway-scented roast pork, bread dumplings (knedlíky), and sweet-sour braised cabbage are served on one plate and drenched in the roasting juices. It goes brilliantly with beer.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Prague beer hall, platters of roast pork and knedlíky sit beside mugs of beer amid lively laughter.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Pork Shoulder 800g (in one piece)
Onion 2
Garlic 3 cloves
Salt 2 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Sauerkraut 400g
Sugar 1 tbsp
Vinegar 1 tbsp
Bread flour 250g
Dry yeast 1 tsp
Milk 130ml
Egg 1
Bread 2
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rub the pork with salt, pepper, and grated garlic, and place on a roasting tray with sliced onion and 200ml water.
Roast at 180°C for 1½ hours, basting occasionally with the juices.
Add a little sautéed onion, sugar, vinegar, and 100ml water to the sauerkraut and simmer 20 minutes.
Knead the bread flour, yeast, milk, egg, and salt, mix in cubed bread, let rise, shape into logs, and steam 20 minutes to make knedlíky.
Slice the pork and knedlíky.
Plate with the cabbage and pour over the roasting juices.

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