Polish Pork Stew {Gulasz Wieprzowy}

Anna

6 years ago

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Polish Pork Stew

Pork, Poland’s favorite vegetable. Poles eat more pork than all other types of meats combined. Sausages, lunch meats, more sausages and stews, much like this one. My version is simple, but nonetheless delicious and my flavor of home, comfort food, if you will. I cook it with just a few common spices, carrots and parsnip and serve the smooth sauce over one of my favorite dumplings. Doesn’t get much better than this.

Polish Pork Stew {Gulasz Wieprzowy}

Yields: 5-6 servings
Prep Time: 10 min
Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

2.5 lbs / 1200 g of boneless pork butt or shoulder
Salt and pepper
2 tbs of cooking oil
3 garlic cloves, crushed
1 medium onion
3 bay leaves
6-8 peppercorns and allspice seeds (whole)
2 carrots
1 parsnip or parsley root
5-6 pieces of dried mushrooms*
1 tbs of fresh thyme
4 tbs of flour
1/2 cup of cold water

Instructions

Wash and dry pork and cut into cubes. Cut away some of the larger pieces of fat. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and set aside.
In a medium pot heat cooking oil, when hot add pork and brown until golden on the edges (about 10-15 min). In the mean time peel garlic and chop onion, peel and slice carrots and parsnip. When pork is done browning add onion and garlic and sauté for another 3-4 minutes.
Then add 5 cups / 1200 ml of water, bay leaves, pepper corns, allspice, carrots, parsnip, mushrooms (if have) and thyme.
Bring to boil, turn heat down to low and let simmer (covered) for at least 1.5 hours, until meat is super tender.
In a small glass or bowl whisk water with flour until smooth, add to stew and bring to boil to thicken.

Notes

Serve over dumplings, pasta or potatoes.

I’m serving mine over drop dumplings – kluski kładzione today, but I also love this stew over kluski śląskie or buckwheat.

As a side salad, I would serve a traditional Polish beet root salad or a home made Polish dill pickle.

Smacznego!

Anna

* in the US, I get my mushrooms here. It’s a nice variety bend and it reminds me of the authentic Polish wild mushrooms. Link includes an affiliate link.