What's so great about this dish? Bigus (bigos) can be prepared from any meat, sausage or sausages, take fresh or sauerkraut (or both together), if desired, add your favorite spices, tomato paste or tomatoes. As you can see, when preparing bigos, each housewife can give free rein to her imagination and cook her own, special bigos.
Ingredients: meat, fresh cabbage, onion, carrot, garlic, salt, spices, tomato paste (or fresh tomato), herbs, bay leaves, vegetable oil
Cooking method:
Cut the meat into small pieces and fry in vegetable oil in a pan over medium heat.
We rub the carrots on a coarse grater, cut the onion not very finely. Add vegetables to the fried meat and mix. Fry everything together for 5-7 minutes.
We chop the cabbage not very finely. Add to the rest of the ingredients in the pan. Simmer for 2-3 minutes, stirring. Then add salt, black pepper and bay leaf.
Pour water about half the height (250-300 ml), salt, cover with a lid and simmer over low heat for 30-40 minutes, making sure that the water does not boil away (add more water if necessary). Finely chop the tomato, after removing the skin from it. If there is no tomato, you can add 1-2 tablespoons of tomato paste. I added more garlic and a few rings of hot pepper.
Bon Appetit!