Sauerkraut Salad

 

Sauerkraut salad is a staple of winter salads in my home country. If you have at least sauerkraut and potatoes that you preserved by yourself in a summer (grew it, fermented it, stored it etc), you will be ok for the winter - Ukrainian opinion. 

Here in Canada, I grow potatoes for our little family, but I am buying a good sauerkraut - my hands didn't get to fermenting a cabbage - yet, oh well, maybe one day...
So, my salad's ingredients are: sauerkraut, grated raw carrot, chopped onion, chives petals, a pinch of salt and sugar and a mix of sunflower and canola oil. I also use hemp or flax oil for this salad - tastes great for me! If I have some fresh or frozen dill, or fresh or frozen green onion, I add that, too. The salad can stay in a fridge for a couple days as a leftover - still good. 

To tell you about the health benefits of sauerkraut and other fermented foods - this is my husband's job. Well, not a job (he is retired) - healthy living lifestyle is his passion. Or, just google about the health benefits of sauerkraut - there is lots of info about it in the web.  
Speaking of me, I just looove sauerkraut - one of the tastes of my old country.