Bigos Recipe - How to Cook Polish Hunters Stew

smoked sausage

🥗Healthier: chicken sausage

💰Cheaper: regular sausage

Chicken sausage is leaner and reduces fat content.

pork

🥗Healthier: turkey

💰Cheaper: chicken

Turkey offers a healthier alternative with lower fat.

red wine

🥗Healthier: grape juice

💰Cheaper: white wine

Grape juice adds sweetness without alcohol.

fresh cabbage

🥗Healthier: Napa cabbage

💰Cheaper: green cabbage

Napa cabbage is tender and flavorful.

Strain and rinse sauerkraut to remove excess brine and salt.

Dump rinsed sauerkraut into the bottom of a large pot and spread it out.

Shred a small head of cabbage and add it on top of the sauerkraut.

Set the pot to low heat, cover it, and let it cook until the cabbage wilts.

Dice bacon into 1 cm squares and render it in a pan until browned.

Slice and dice an onion and add it to the pan with the bacon once it's translucent.

Cube about 1 kg of pork chops into 2 cm cubes and add to the pan to brown.

Slice kielbasa lengthwise and then into 1 cm pieces, adding it to the pan to brown.

Rehydrate dried shiitake mushrooms, then boil them in their water until reduced.

Add rehydrated mushrooms and their water to the pot with cabbage and sauerkraut.

Slice dried plums into small pieces and add them to the pot for sweetness.

Add 100 ml of tomato paste and 250 ml of red wine to the pot.

Add a teaspoon of peppercorns, a couple of bay leaves, two teaspoons of paprika, and a teaspoon of allspice to the pot.

Mix everything together in the pot and cover it.

Let the mixture cook for at least three hours.

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