Babcia’s Polish Bigos
Babcia’s Polish Bigos

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Great recipe for Babcia's Polish Bigos. My granny is Polish and we call her Babcia. This is Poland's national dish and Babcia made it for us a lot when we were young.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have babcia’s polish bigos using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Babcia’s Polish Bigos:
  1. Make ready 20 g dried porcini mushrooms
  2. Prepare 5-8 stoned prunes
  3. Get 475 g diced casserole beef
  4. Take 2 large pork belly slices
  5. Take 300 g polish sausage (ideally kielbasa), peeled (I didn’t do this which was a mistake)
  6. Make ready 2 onions, sliced
  7. Make ready 3 tbsp olive oil
  8. Take 450 g jar sauerkraut, rinsed
  9. Take 4 tomatoes peeled and chopped
  10. Take 4 cloves
  11. Prepare 1 cinnamon stick
  12. Get 1 bay leaf
  13. Take 1 tsp dried dill
  14. Prepare 1 pint beef stock
  15. Get Salt and pepper

Start by putting your dried mushrooms and prunes in a bowl and just covering with boiling water. Heat your large saucepan or flameproof casserole dish and fry off the meat in batches to brown all over. Remove each batch into a bowl when done. You can heat this bigos recipe, freeze, heat again, refrigerate, heat again.the flavor only intensifies.

Steps to make Babcia’s Polish Bigos:
  1. Start by putting your dried mushrooms and prunes in a bowl and just covering with boiling water. Leave to soak for 30 mins.
  2. Heat your large saucepan or flameproof casserole dish and fry off the meat in batches to brown all over. Remove each batch into a bowl when done.
  3. Fry your onions in the saucepan over a low heat now and cook gently for 10 minutes.
  4. Return your meat to the pan and add in also your sauerkraut, tomatoes, cloves, cinnamon, bay, dill and sliced sausage.
  5. Drain your mushrooms and reserve the liquid in a jug. Add the mushrooms and prunes into your pot. Then make the reserved liquid up to a pint by topping it up with stock. Add that liquid into the pan too.
  6. Season it all with pepper (you can add salt later after you’ve tasted it). Bring the pan to the boil then turn it down to simmer gently with the lid on for 2 hours.
  7. Best left to sit overnight after it’s cooked and cooked to let the flavours develop.

In fact, don't even think of eating this the first day, give it a day in the fridge for the flavors to blend. Bigos stew is incredibly simple to make, requires very little effort and makes a fantastic potluck party dish. Bigos is a rich flavorful stew with sauerkraut, Polish sausage, beef, pork, red wine, caraway seeds and more. The longer it cooks, the better it tastes. Polish cuisine prides itself in hearty and comforting dishes, and bigos-a traditional Polish stew-is one of the classic representatives of their culinary tradition.

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