Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 2 tablespoons butter, cut into pats
  • 3 knockwursts, diced into 1-inch cubes
  • 3 bratwursts, diced into 1-inch cubes
  • 1 red onion, quartered and thinly sliced
  • 2 pounds red cabbage, quartered and shredded
  • 1 teaspoon caraway seeds
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 12-ounce bottle dark beer
  • 1 quart veal or chicken stock
  • 2 cups tomato sauce
  • 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 bay leaf, fresh or dried
  • 3 tablespoons finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
  • 2 Red or Golden Delicious apples, peeled and diced
  • Juice of 1/2 lemon

Method

  • Heat a big soup pot over medium-high heat.
  • Add 1 tablespoon of the vegetable oil and half the butter.
  • When the butter melts into the oil, add the cubed wursts and brown them on all sides, 5 minutes.
  • Remove the browned sausages and add the remaining tablespoon each of oil and butter.
  • When the butter melts into the oil, add the onion and cook for 2 minutes.
  • Add the cabbage and caraway, season with salt and pepper, and stir.
  • Cook the cabbage for 10 minutes, stirring frequently.
  • Add the beer and cook down 1 minute.
  • Add the stock, tomato sauce, Worcestershire, and bay leaf and stir to combine.
  • Add the wursts back to the pot.
  • Cover the pot and bring the stoup up to a boil, 2 or 3 minutes.
  • Remove the lid and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes longer, until the cabbage is tender.
  • Remove the bay leaf.
  • Combine the parsley, apple, and lemon juice in a small bowl.
  • Ladle the stoup into shallow bowls and top with generous spoonfuls of the flavored apples to stir into the stoup as you eat it.