Chris Kraut

A great Polish side dish that goes well with any meat or poultry. Especially good with pork roast.

Step: 1

Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, reserving drippings, crumble and set aside.

Step: 2

In a medium saucepan heat sauerkraut with a little water over medium heat. Stir in crumbled bacon, sugar and 3 to 4 tablespoons of bacon drippings. Cook for 20 minutes, or until heated through. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Per Serving: 302 calories; protein 6.1g; carbohydrates 24.1g; fat 20.6g; cholesterol 30.9mg; sodium 970.4mg.

One of most obvious way to pick a side dish is to caught at your main dish (pasta, chicken, seared tofu) and choose something different. When you’re cooking pasta, go for a simple vegetable . Making steak? Go for more light. If you’re want to cooking stir-fry with rice, it must not a good idea to also make a rice salad.

This also can make to cooking method . You don’t want to push more often your oven by making to do list three dishes at once in there, or be juggling four pans on the stovetop . But often you can make a dish do double-duty .