How to Cook Tasty Babcia’s Polish Bigos

Babcia’s Polish Bigos.

You can have Babcia’s Polish Bigos using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

It's 20 g of dried porcini mushrooms.
It's 5-8 of stoned prunes.
You need 475 g of diced casserole beef.
It's 2 of large pork belly slices.
It's 300 g of polish sausage (ideally kielbasa), peeled (I didn’t do this which was a mistake).
Prepare 2 of onions, sliced.
It's 3 tbsp of olive oil.
It's 450 g of jar sauerkraut, rinsed.
Prepare 4 of tomatoes peeled and chopped.
It's 4 of cloves.
You need 1 of cinnamon stick.
You need 1 of bay leaf.
It's 1 tsp of dried dill.
You need 1 pint of beef stock.
Prepare of Salt and pepper.

Start by putting your dried mushrooms and prunes in a bowl and just covering with boiling water. Leave to soak for 30 mins..
Heat your large saucepan or flameproof casserole dish and fry off the meat in batches to brown all over. Remove each batch into a bowl when done..
Fry your onions in the saucepan over a low heat now and cook gently for 10 minutes..
Return your meat to the pan and add in also your sauerkraut, tomatoes, cloves, cinnamon, bay, dill and sliced sausage..
Drain your mushrooms and reserve the liquid in a jug. Add the mushrooms and prunes into your pot. Then make the reserved liquid up to a pint by topping it up with stock. Add that liquid into the pan too..
Season it all with pepper (you can add salt later after you’ve tasted it). Bring the pan to the boil then turn it down to simmer gently with the lid on for 2 hours..
Best left to sit overnight after it’s cooked and cooked to let the flavours develop..