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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 1/2 kg of Sauerkraut.
2. It's 200 grams of Meat (you can use the kind of meat that you would normally use for curries and stews).
3. You need 200 grams of Sausage, wiener.
4. It's 1 of Leftover ham, bacon (if you have it).
5. You need 250 ml of Western-style stock.
6. Prepare 5 of Dried plums.
7. It's 5 of Dried mushrooms.
8. It's 50 ml of Tomato purée.
9. It's 2 of Bay leaves.
10. Prepare 1 dash 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..