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🍽️ Kale the Way Grandma Made It

1350 kcal · 210 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 2.4 kg kale (frozen)
• 4 onion(s)
• 50 g goose fat
• 1 Liter meat broth (double concentrated (bouillon cube for 2.5 ltr. water dissolved in 1 ltr.))
• 2 tbsp mustard, medium-hot
• 10 Pinkel sausages (*)
• 8 Mettenden (smoked or boiled sausages)
• 500 g bacon (smoked, streaky)
• 8 Kasseler pork chops
• oat flakes
• salt and pepper (from the mill)

Instructions

1. 1. Heat the goose fat in a large pot.
2. 2. Sweat the finely diced onions in it.
3. 3. Add the frozen kale.
4. 4. Pour ¾ liter of hot broth over the kale.
5. 5. Close the pot with a lid.
6. 6. Let the kale thaw over low heat for about 30 minutes.
7. 7. Peel 2 to 3 Pinkel sausages.
8. 8. Cut the sausages into small pieces.
9. 9. Stir the sausage pieces into the kale.
10. 10. Add the bacon.
11. 11. Add 2 to 3 browned mettwurst sausages.
12. 12. Close the pot again.
13. 13. Let everything simmer very gently over low heat for about 2 hours.
14. 14. Stir the kale occasionally to prevent burning.
15. 15. Do not add the pork chop to the pot.
16. 16. After 2 hours, remove the bacon and mettwurst from the kale.
17. 17. Set the meat and sausages aside.
18. 18. Season the kale with salt and pepper to your liking.
19. 19. Stir the mustard into the kale.
20. 20. Optionally add a crumbled bouillon cube.
21. 21. Taste the kale to see if more broth is needed.
22. 22. Place the pot with the lid slightly ajar in a cool place.
23. 23. Let the kale cool down.
24. 24. Reheat the kale the next day.
25. 25. Stir the kale occasionally.
26. 26. Stir the oat flakes into the kale.
27. 27. Cook the oat flakes briefly.
28. 28. Decide for yourself how many tablespoons of oat flakes you need.
29. 29. Continue cooking the kale until it is creamy.
30. 30. Place the meat and sausages in a pot.
31. 31. Fill the pot with broth until everything is covered.
32. 32. Heat the broth with the meat.
33. 33. Let the ingredients steep, but do not boil them.
34. 34. Optionally brown the sausages to let excess fat drip off.
35. 35. Reheat the pork chops in the broth.
36. 36. Calculate at least 1 Pinkel sausage per person.
37. 37. Calculate at least ½ mettwurst per person.
38. 38. Calculate at least 1 piece of bacon or pork chop per person.
39. 39. Serve boiled potatoes as a side dish.
40. 40. Serve fried potatoes from the previous day's boiled potatoes as a side dish.
41. 41. Drink beer with it.
42. 42. Optionally use the smoked variant of the Pinkel sausage.
43. 43. Expect the smoked sausage to be slightly more flavorful when cooked in the kale.
44. 44. Consider that this dish is definitely not diet food.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 1350
• Protein: 85 g · Fett/Fat: 90 g · Carbs: 40 g