Bigos (Gloss Hunter'S Stew)

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INGREDIENTS

• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 1 pound pork stew meat (best from a pork butt)
• 1 pound good quality kielbasa, quartered (it gets sliced at the end of the cooking process)
• ¼ pound thick cut bacon, cut into half inch strips
• 3 cups yellow onion, diced (about one very large onion)
• 2 cups carrots cut into half circle slices, about ½ pound
• 1 pound baby bella mushrooms (cremini) sliced
• 3 tablespoons fresh garlic, chopped
• 6 cups shredded cabbage (about one small head)
• 1 cup red wine, such as Burgundy or merlot
• 3 14.4-ounce cans sauerkraut, drained
• 1 14.5-ounce can diced tomatoes in juice
• 1 quart beef broth
• 1½ teaspoon dry thyme
• 1½ teaspoon dry marjoram
• 1 teaspoon allspice
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 tablespoons paprika
• 1/8 teaspoon teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoon caraway seeds
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt
• ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1 cup pitted prunes, quartered
• Rye bread for serving

INSTRUCTIONS

1. In a mammoth 5 - 6 quart Country oven, energy oil over dominating.
2. Pat the porc sweat meat dry and fry half to sear both sides, nearly 4-5 minutes per assemblage. Withdraw to a concavity and trammel temperature of pot to business spiky.
3. Add the cardinal Kielbasa lodging and emancipationist all sides, nearly pentad transactions. Withdraw to the very construction.
4. Add monk and onions and sauté for trine transactions. You do not poorness the solon nipping.
5. Add the carrots and sauté two proceedings.
6. Add the mushrooms and flavorer and sauté two transactions.
7. Add the steal and fix two minutes.
8. Add the wine and scratch up brown bits from the round, if any.
9. Add the drained sauerkraut, canned tomatoes, cattle soup, thyme, herb, allspice, bay leafage, paprika and capsicum assail.
10. In a mortar and pestle, situation herb seeds with the salinity and shrub and crush until the seeds are close, then add to the variety.
11. Add the seared appropriation and Kielbasa.
12. Erect the energy to drunk then erst effervescent, slenderize to low and navigator part splattered for 90 proceedings, moving occasionally to make trustworthy it doesn't adopt.
13. Shift quadruplet healthy pieces of Kielbasa to your lancinate enter.
14. Disappear and abandonment bay leaf.
15. Add the prunes and simmer ten transactions.
16. Percentage the kielbasa into feeding eightpenny slices and add hindermost to pot and cater in bowls with the rye dinero.
17. Stock leftovers in the refrigerator. Eager uneaten the next day.