Bigos (Polish)

• 1 kg Sauerkraut
• small white cabbage head
• 2 onions
• 2 carrots
• 200 g beef meat
• 200 g pork meat
• 200 g chicken meat
• 250 g smoked sausage
• 4 glasses of broth
• big spoon of lard
• spoon of sunflower oil
• 30 g dried mushrooms
• 50 g dried plums
• salt
• ground pepper and seed pepper
• pimento seeds
• 2 bay leaves
• glass of dry red wine

1. Wash mushrooms and pour it on with water. Leave for night. Rinse plums and pour on with water and
2. leave for night as well. Next day parboil mushrooms in water they were soaking. Take them out the
3. water and chop into wide stripes. Peel and mince onions. Fry it on one spoon of sunflower oil. Peel
4. and slice carrots. Take off outside leaves from the white cabbage. Shred the cabbage and boil until
5. softness together with carrot and onion. Pour sauerkraut on with 4 glasses of broth. Boil up. Pour parboiled
6. mushrooms with water. Boil. After 30 minutes join together sauerkraut and white cabbage, add (drained off and
7. chopped) plums, pepper seeds, pimento seeds and bay leaves. Chop meat into pieces. Fry separately-pork and
8. beef on lard and chicken on sunflower oil. Sprinkle with water and stew until softness. Chop sausage. Afterwards
9. together with meat and sauce (from its preparation) put chopped sausage into mixed cabbages. Pour wine. Boil
10. until all ingredients are well joined around 1-2 hours, on medium fire, stirring it from time to time.
11. Tips: This dish is the best when you heat it up couple of times. It is good to have a big pot for last stage of
12. cooking
13. - volume after you mix all ingredients is usually quite big. If there is something left afterwards (but
14. probably there won't be LoL ) you can keep it in freezer for some time and defrost easily when you want to eat it
15. again.
16. Smacznego! bon appetit!

sauerkraut, white cabbage, onions, carrots, beef meat, pork meat, chicken meat, sausage, broth, lard, sunflower oil, mushrooms, salt, ground pepper, pimento seeds, bay leaves, glass

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/bigos-polish-50146751 (may not work)