as an alpha male Ben knows exactly what
it's like to go out for a day's hunting
come back and want some really big food
so he's going to show us his polish
hunters stew so from what I've read this
is the national dish of Poland because
and basically as you say hunter stew is
loads of ingredient you might find the
woods in a pot stood down for lots of
time you said big off very confidently
like that is hair exactly how it's
pronounced yeah big o as in rock runs as
in sign because I'm just waiting for the
comments to plug in all you do is take a
couple of onions peel them slice them
and fry them off in a couple of
tablespoons of butter when they're soft
and sweet we're going to add in juniper
berry and caraway seeds as those onions
sweat off we can cut up some other stuff
so got some pork shoulder steaks is that
because you you found a pig worst when
you're out hunting you can imagine it
might be a ball yep sometimes they put
rabbit in here or pheasant or in fact
any kind of good quality meat but quite
a fatty one this is a long slow cook so
something like shoulder is perfect I'm
gonna dice up you can slice half a white
cabbage do you know what I can
now obviously if you've been out hunting
all day you don't want to be cooking
something that's got a lot of different
pads which is why this dish is so
fantastic because it's just a one pot
dish and everything goes straight into
that one pot dump away dump we've got
our cabbage we've got a sauerkraut
chicken stock our pork some tomatoes
some honey for that little added
sweetness and then the bulk of some
trees know they're dried mushrooms also
found on the forest floor while I was
hunting bring up to a simmer and cook
very very gently for two hours
alternatively in a slow cooker for four
or a really slow cooker for six after a
good couple of hours of simmering away
look at this the cabbage the Palmer so
amazing it breaks down it does smell
incredible two more ingredients to go
into this then back into the oven for
another half an hour one red apple
grated and plenty of Polish sausage and
if you slice this into sort of diagonal
pieces and mix it in it really is
delicious it's kind of a smoked smoked
sausage that's one of my favorites there
are loads of different poached ostrich
pick your paper
you'll notice at this point we've not
actually seasoned this mix but there'll
be a lot of salt come out of that
sausage and then later on after another
half an hour simmering away or back in a
very low oven about 150 degrees Celsius
then you can taste some seasoning just
preserving bootylicious serve it up in a
big bowl with a sprinkle of chopped dill
and plenty of mashed potato is this the
time where you try and make it look good
when you serve it up well I mean it's a
lot of stewed cabbage and pork is I mean
it's not the most attractive but what
these guys don't have a home is
smellivision because when you smell it
then you know it's there is that but
that's also when I was looking into what
Big O sadly means it translates to mess
or confusion which can kind of sum up
how it how it looks
I suppose fair look at that awesome
creamy mash you got all of the cabbage
and veg in the actual dish so with a
little bit of sour cream
it's our polish hunter stew or big oz
sorted I know it feels like we finished
the recipe a minute ago when we summed
up and we said sorted but it does really
benefit from some mushrooms just sauteed
off they were just there and we forgot
to put them on yet because when I went
hunter-gathering you see I am from the
forest I found these on the floor so I
thought and they look great on top yeah
there we go he goes mach 2 sorted
nice mushrooms if all that today what
dirt cheap ways if you hunted it right
good had our maker
hmm well it's kind of an inception thing
going on because you're in the video
that shows how to make it at the end but
if you've missed the video for some
reason but ended up here then why not
hits assorted food we can find all the
recipe and ingredients