Easy guys 🙂 Do you like a stew fellows? Well, that’s what’s bigos is. It is a stew. It is called a Polish Hunter Stew – this name is probably more descriptive and gives a better idea about the dish.
So, if you’re a fan of an Irish stew or any type of a stew with meat and mushrooms, you’ll quickly become a big fan of bigos too! 🙂 The dish is said to be 700 years old and initially was cooked with a wild game. However, fortunately or not, we’re not hunter gatherers anymore. Humanity turned itself into token of exchange hunters nowadays, which are notably called the “money”. So essentially, the more money you’ve got, the more ingredients you can get and the more bigos you can eat… 🙂 Wow… One deep thought that is… 🙂
Anyway, back to bigos, it really is one tasty Polish meal which can fill up your tummy. Traditionally it is one of the Polish Christmas meals. Although, in the 80s and 90s bigos became one of the most popular Polish bar meals.
The secret ingredient of bigos is the sauerkraut. Yep, that good old, full of vitamin C and and gut friendly probiotics fermented cabbage 🙂 Unlike in other types of stews, it is the sauerkraut which makes the main body of bigos. You might wonder now, how on Earth this dish could ever be tasty? Well, the secret of bigos’s great taste lays in cocking the sauerkraut with smoked sausages (you could use bacon too) and dried wild mushrooms. To improve the taste you could even add few prunes. While cooking, all the ingredients absorb and infuse each other distinct flavors, mixing together in hot temperature and then – voilà! Here comes the one of the most tasty stew ever! 🙂 Hungry yet? Have a look at TasyPolishMeals bigos recipe in the main section. Let’s coock something nice! Smacznego!
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