
Polish hunter's stew
Bigos: a hearty sausage and cabbage stew that tastes even better the next day.
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Ingredients
- Pork sausages455 g
- White cabbage½ cabbage
- Brown onions150 g
- Smoked back bacon150 g
- Tomato purée40 g
- Vegetable stock cubes1 cube
- White potatoes800 g
Also uses from the cupboard: vegetable oil, table salt, ground black pepper, paprika. Missing any? You can add them to your shop on the shopping list.
Usually contains: Gluten, Celery.
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Estimated from typical ingredient values, including a teaspoon of oil. Children's portions are smaller.
Method
- Heat a tablespoon of oil in a large, deep pan over a medium heat. Brown the sausages all over for 6 to 8 minutes (with the chopped bacon, if using), then lift out and slice the sausages into chunks.455 g pork sausages150 g smoked back bacon
- Chop the onion and finely shred the cabbage. Cook the onion in the same pan for 5 minutes, then add the cabbage, the tomato purée, a teaspoon of paprika, the crumbled stock cube and 400 ml of water. Stir well.½ cabbage150 g brown onions40 g tomato purée1 cube
- Return the sausages and bacon to the pan. Cover and simmer gently for 40 minutes, stirring now and then, until the cabbage is very soft and the sauce has thickened.
- About 20 minutes before the end, peel the potatoes, cut into chunks and boil in salted water for 15 minutes until tender. Drain and serve with the stew.800 g white potatoes
Make it the day before if you can. Bigos is famously better reheated.
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