Fresh cabbage bigus with meat and sausage

Delicious, hearty, fragrant cabbage dish! Bigus is a traditional dish of Polish cuisine, there are different variations of its preparation, with a different set of ingredients, and everyone can choose a recipe that is more suitable for themselves. The taste of such a dish turns out to be very bright and saturated.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 21 % 4 g
Fats 53 % 10 g
Carbohydrates 26 % 5 g
112 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make a bigus of fresh cabbage with meat and sausage? Prepare the ingredients according to the list. Peel the white cabbage from the upper leaves and finely chop it. For piquancy of taste, add sauerkraut, but you can cook this dish without it.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Wash, peel and grate the carrots. Peel the onion from the husk and cut into small cubes.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, heat it up, fry onions and carrots in oil for softness. Remove the vegetable roast from the pan.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Add vegetable oil if necessary. Put the chopped white cabbage in this pan, fry it for 5-7 minutes over medium heat, stirring with a spatula, then add the sauerkraut, pour in water, stir and simmer for about 15 minutes under the lid.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Minced meat can be used any ready-made or cooked from fresh meat, for a more delicious and juicy dish, it is better to use mixed pork and beef. In another frying pan, fry the minced meat in vegetable oil, fry it for 15 minutes over medium heat until the minced meat changes color to light.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Put carrots and onions in a frying pan with cabbage, stir and simmer them together for another 5 minutes.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Use boiled sausage for this dish, cut into small cubes or straws.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Then add the fried minced meat, sausage, tomato paste, salt and pepper to the vegetables, mix. If there is too little liquid in the pan, then add more water, and simmer the ingredients over low heat under the lid together for about 10 minutes. Five minutes before the end of cooking, add the bay leaf, taste it, add salt if necessary. There should be sauce in the pan with the dish, but not in large quantities. Turn off the fire. Bon appetit!

Important! An incorrectly selected frying pan can ruin even the best recipe. All the details on how to choose the perfect frying pan for different dishes read here .

Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which is better not to use at all, read here .

Keep in mind that the final result in this dish also depends on how you chop the carrots: grated carrots will turn into mush during heat treatment and mix evenly with the rest of the ingredients, cut into strips or cubes will retain their shape.

The calorie content of the products possible in the dish

  • Carrots - 33   kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275   kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25   kcal/100g
  • Bay leaf - 313   kcal/100g
  • Mixed minced meat - 351   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Tomato paste - 28   kcal/100g
  • Black pepper peas - 255   kcal/100g
  • Sauerkraut - 19   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Sausage "amateur" - 291   kcal/100g
  • Sausage "Ukrainian" - 404   kcal/100g
  • Diabetic sausage - 254   kcal/100g
  • Sausage "doctor" - 197   kcal/100g
  • Diet sausage - 170   kcal/100g
  • Sausage "milk" - 252   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • White cabbage - 28   kcal/100g
  • Boiled white cabbage - 21   kcal/100g

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