Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons margarine
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 1/3 s ham or spam, chopped
- 1/2 clove garlic, minced
- 4 tablespoons flour
- 1/2 sauerkraut broth*
- 3 s sauerkraut, drained and chopped
- 1 tablespoon parsley, chopped
- 1 egg
- 2 s milk
- soft bread crumbs
Directions
Melt margarine in frying pan and brown chopped onion slightly. Add chopped ham and garlic, brown slightly. Stir in flour and cook thoroughly. Add broth, sauerkraut and parsley; cook a few minutes longer. This should form a stiff paste. When chilled, form into balls about an inch in diameter. To bread them, beat 1 egg and 2 cups milk together. Dip sauerkraut balls in flour, then the egg mixture and then the soft bread crumbs. Fry in deep fat. Makes 50.
Notes: Run sauerkraut, spam and onion through food chopper.
Can be frozen and heated in oven until warmed through.
*Only use broth if needed with spam.
Eleanor Simecek
Twinsburg, OH
