https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigos
We found out our oven wasn’t working this evening and my wife really wanted bigos for dinner. Given that it’s mostly about cooking pork and other fun stuff in a pot at 250F for 4 hours, we decided to fire up the green egg.
We didn’t really follow a recipe, just chopped up pork, beets, potatoes, a head of cabbage, and an onion, added salt, and dumped it all in a pot. I got the grill up to temperature with the indirect heat plate installed and then just moved the pot onto the grill. Aside from stirring it a few times, I left it covered.
It was amazing. I have no idea what kind of vile tricks our oven used to fool us into thinking it can cook things properly, but the food stayed moist and developed a nice broth instead of charring onto the bottom of the pot like it usually does. That means that instead of chiseling sludge out of the pot, we had watermelon and relaxed on the patio!
I actually left the pot on the grill for a half hour longer than necessary because my wife hadn’t gotten back yet and it still came out perfectly.
I can’t wait to try other recipes like it. 10/10, would recommend.
Just salt and pepper. I googled around and it looks like some recipes use sauerkraut instead of raw cabbage. Also there’s a big variation in the kinds of meat you can add. Some recipes use apples as well as beets. It really feels like a “throw whatever you’ve got in a pot and cook it slow” recipe. I had something really similar at the Rainbow Drive-In in Honolulu (pork, cabbage, onions, potatoes with obligatory macaroni salad) and it kind of blew my mind.
I’d like to try adding a bay leaf or two at the very least next time, and I’m going to lobby hard for sauerkraut instead of raw cabbage. Some apple juice/cider vinegar would probably work too?
Sauerkraut sounds like a perfect addition to this dish! It seems to be a very versatile meal so you could probably add any flavour that you like. A great one for feeding a large group while camping I’d imagine.