Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew)
by Tom Ashworth
20 servings
Dried Mushrooms
- 710 mldried mushrooms (porcini or other forest mushrooms)
- 710 mlwater, for soaking
Stew
- 500 gpork shoulder
- 500 gbeef chuck
- 10 mlsalt, for the meat
- black pepper, for the meat
- 59 to 89 mloil
- 12 slicessmoked bacon
- 2large onion
- 450 gbutton mushrooms
- 2 headssmall head of white cabbage
- 1000 gsmoked kielbasa
- 500 mlchicken, beef or vegetable stock
- 340 gtomato paste
- 20 mlsalt
- 8 to 10 leavesbay leaves
- 2 clovesgarlic
- 20whole black peppercorns
- 20whole allspice berries
- 5 mlground black pepper
- 3000 gsauerkraut
- 12pitted prunes