SAUSAGE SAUERKRAUT BALLS

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A flavorful sausage and sauerkraut mixture is breaded and baked into delicious appetizer balls. They'll be requested over and over again. Serve them with spicy mustard sauce or sweet and sour sauce.

Provided by DThomRN2

Categories Appetizers and Snacks Meat and Poultry Pork

Time 1h

Yield 12

Number Of Ingredients 12

Ingredients

1 ½ pounds ground pork sausage
1 onion, finely chopped
1 cup all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon ground dry mustard
4 drops hot pepper sauce
½ cup milk
1 tablespoon dried parsley
1 (16 ounce) can sauerkraut - drained, rinsed and finely chopped
¼ cup butter
2 eggs, slightly beaten
¼ cup cold water
¾ cup dry bread crumbs

Steps:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
Place ground pork sausage and onion in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain and stir in all-purpose flour, dry mustard and hot pepper sauce. Whisk in milk. Stirring constantly, continue cooking approximately 5 minutes. Remove from heat and mix in dried parsley and sauerkraut.
Place butter in a 9x13 inch baking dish, and melt in the preheated oven.
In a small bowl, stir together the eggs and cold water.
Roll the sausage mixture into 1 inch balls. Dip sausage balls into the egg and water mixture, then roll them in the bread crumbs.
Arrange coated sausage balls in the baking dish in a single layer. Bake in the preheated oven approximately 30 minutes, turning after 15 minutes, until golden brown.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 363.9 calories, Carbohydrate 16.5 g, Cholesterol 80.6 mg, Fat 28.3 g, Fiber 1.8 g, Protein 10.5 g, SaturatedFat 11.1 g, Sodium 720.9 mg, Sugar 2 g