🇵🇱 How to Make Bigos

Craving Bigos? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Bigos at home, in about 3 hrs, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 500g sauerkraut, rinsed and chopped
• 400g fresh white cabbage, shredded
• 300g pork shoulder, cubed
• 200g Polish sausage, sliced
• 100g smoked bacon
• 20g dried mushrooms, soaked
• 2 tbsp tomato paste
• 2 bay leaves, 5 juniper berries, 4 prunes

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Render the bacon, brown the pork and sausage in the fat, and set aside.
2. Cook both cabbages with the soaking liquid from the mushrooms, the bay and juniper, 45 min.
3. Return the meats with the tomato paste, chopped mushrooms and prunes.
4. Simmer, covered, at least 2 hrs on the lowest heat. Stir occasionally and add water only if it threatens to catch.
5. Bigos is genuinely better on day three. Cool it, refrigerate, reheat, repeat.
6. Rye bread. Nothing else is required.