Bigos (Hunters Stew) for Slowcooker
Bigos (Hunters Stew) for Slowcooker

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, bigos (hunters stew) for slowcooker. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Learned first hand from my late polish grandmother. I grew up with this and made sure I recreated this dish as accurately as possible. She didn't have a slow cooker so I sacrilegiously feel like the taste is even improved.

Bigos (Hunters Stew) for Slowcooker is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Bigos (Hunters Stew) for Slowcooker is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have bigos (hunters stew) for slowcooker using 19 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Bigos (Hunters Stew) for Slowcooker:
  1. Get to taste Olive oil and Butter
  2. Make ready 800 g Kielbasa or smoked pork sausage
  3. Prepare 1000 g Pork (shoulder or neck meat steaks or chops)
  4. Make ready 2 x medium Onions rough sliced
  5. Make ready 2 cloves Garlic sliced
  6. Make ready 200 g mushrooms quartered
  7. Prepare 1 TBS Beefbroth
  8. Take 800 g diced Tomatoes (canned)
  9. Take 2 TBS Paprika
  10. Get 1 TBS Pimenton (smoked Paprika) or more regular Paprika
  11. Take Pinch Cheyenne
  12. Take 1500 g Sauerkraut (drain of excess fluid)
  13. Take 2 x Bayleaves
  14. Get 2-3 Allspiece (pimento) Berries (grind to powder with pestle)
  15. Take 2-3 Juniper Berries (crush under a knife)
  16. Make ready Handfull of Parsley (chopped)
  17. Make ready 2-3 Pickles (sliced roughly)
  18. Make ready Salt/White Pepper
  19. Take 4 TBS Tomatopaste

Bigos (Hunters Stew) for Slowcooker step by step. Cut all your ingredient up but not too fine. You want to retain texture and tastes. Fry the steaks or chops in the sausage/olive oil.

Instructions to make Bigos (Hunters Stew) for Slowcooker:
  1. Cut all your ingredient up but not too fine. You want to retain texture and tastes.
  2. Cut the sausage in about 1/4" slices and fry it on medium/high heat in a pan with a bit of olive oil until the fat starts seeping out. Transfer to slow cooker.
  3. Fry the steaks or chops in the sausage/olive oil. Add more oil if needed. High heat for 20-30sec on each side. No need to cut the meat up. The Slowcooker process will tenderize it to strings. Bones can remain for now and can extracted after the stew is finished) Transfer to slow cooker
  4. Reduce heat and add some butter.
  5. Once the butter is at temperature add onions and garlic and caramelize them until they glaze over. Transfer to slow cooker
  6. Add the mushrooms to the pan and let them absorb the resulting broth. Add a bit of water and the beef broth to the pan. Then after stirring for a few seconds add the tomatoes and paprika (and Pimenton, Cheyenne if you like it a bit spicey) to the mix and transfer everything to the slow cooker. Salt and pepper to taste. Maybe add a bit of Beefbroth instead of salt. Less is more. The Slowcooker will unchain a lot.of taste from the meat.
  7. You can add all kinds of leftovers at this point. Like vegetables that go in soup (kohlrabi, turnip, carrot, celery, leek, endive)… Processing leftovers is what stew is for. I would avoid sweet stuff like corn but tomatoes are also fine and go in roughly chopped or even quartered…
  8. Drain the Sauerkraut from excess fluid (not a problem if there is some left) and add it to the slow cooker. If it's too sour for you, you can reduce the acid by quickly blanching it in water and draining it before transferring it to the mix. I like the acidic taste. It's how it's supposed to be and it helps tenderize the meat.
  9. Slice or dice the pickles and add them together with the rest of the ingredients. Mix everything thoroughly and make sure the meat is covered.
  10. Add some water until everything is wet and can be cooked. Make sure the meat is covered. Just like in the picture
  11. Cook on high for 5 hours and let rest for one 1 or more hours. Remove bones before serving.
  12. A side of sourdough bread or simple mashed potatoes are ideal. Some sourcreme or creme fraiche to reduce acidity maybe? Certainly…

Fry the bacon in a Dutch oven to render the fat, and then toss in the pork chunks, garlic, onions, and mushrooms. Place bigos in serving bowl and garnish with parsley. Serve with mashed potatoes, boiled potatoes or rye bread. This recipe for bigos makes a hearty, long-simmered meat-and-sauerkraut stew that goes back centuries and is a national dish of Poland. It was traditionally served at the start of the hunting season, from fall through Shrove Tuesday , or until the family's supply of barrel-cured sauerkraut ran out.

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