Sour potato pieces (Saxon style)

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 500 g smoked meat or ham sausage / Polish
• 6 large potatoes
• 6 large carrots
• 3 liters of water
• 2 tbsp chicken broth
• 1 gr. can/n beans (sharpened beans), drained
• 1 jar of pickles
• 1 tsp vinegar essence
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 4 sauce cakes
• salt and pepper
• possibly mushrooms
• possibly butter

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour; Total time approx. 1 hour

Boil the meat in water in one piece and then chop it up (advantage: you don’t need chicken stock). If you prefer sausage, fry it in a little butter. Deglaze with water and chicken stock. Peel the potatoes and carrots, cut them into bite-sized pieces, and bring them to a boil in the stock. Add the can of beans, and chop the gherkins into small pieces and add them as well. Tip: add a little gherkin sauce to enhance the sweet and sour flavor. Season with salt, pepper, vinegar, and sugar. Finally, cut the gravy cake into very small pieces and let it melt in the liquid (don’t let it boil any further; turn off the stove and let it simmer on the residual heat; that’s perfectly sufficient). For mushroom lovers: add a few finely chopped porcini mushrooms or button mushrooms; they also taste good! The potato pieces taste best after the second reheat, as they’ll be properly marinated by then!