🇵🇱 Poland cuisine · #2

Bigos (Hunter's Stew)

Bigos (Hunter's Stew)
Time240 min
Serves8
Ingredients10

Poland's hunter's stew of sauerkraut and fresh cabbage with mixed meats, sausage, dried mushrooms and prunes — better every time it's reheated.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Soak the mushrooms, keeping the water.
  2. Simmer sauerkraut in water 30 minutes and cook the shredded fresh cabbage.
  3. Brown the meat, onion and sausage.
  4. Combine everything with mushrooms and their water, prunes, paste and spices.
  5. Simmer 2 hours; best reheated the next day.
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