Recipe: Delicious Polish Sauerkraut Cooking: Bigos

Polish Sauerkraut Cooking: Bigos.

You can have Polish Sauerkraut Cooking: Bigos using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Polish Sauerkraut Cooking: Bigos

1. Prepare of Sauerkraut.
2. You need of Meat (you can use the kind of meat that you would normally use for curries and stews).
3. Prepare of Sausage, wiener.
4. You need of Leftover ham, bacon (if you have it).
5. Prepare of Western-style stock.
6. Prepare of Dried plums.
7. It's of Dried mushrooms.
8. You need of Tomato purée.
9. It's of Bay leaves.
10. You need of Salt and pepper.

Polish Sauerkraut Cooking: Bigos step by step

1. Place the dried mushrooms in 200 ml hot water. Taste the sauerkraut, if it's a bit too sour then give it a quick rinse..
2. Add the sauerkraut to a large saucepan with the stock and bay leaves and place it over low heat..
3. Chop up the dried mushrooms and place them into the pan from Step 2 as well. Add the remaining hot water too..
4. Slice the meat into small chunks, cook it in a frying pan, then add it to the saucepan..
5. Chop the plums up into small pieces and add them to the saucepan. Adjust the flavour of the mixture in the pan with the tomato purée, salt, and pepper..
6. Cut up the sausage etc. and after cooking them a little in a frying pan, add them to the main saucepan..
7. Simmer the mixture over low heat for an hour and it's ready. This bigos is delicious served with bread..