Pork recipes

Polish bigos (hunter's stew) with beef, smoked pork, spareribs, kielbasa, bacon, and sauerkraut. The national dish of Poland, slow simmered, feeds sixteen.

Dinuguan is a traditional Filipino pork blood stew simmered with liver, vinegar, fish sauce, and hot banana peppers. Rich, tangy, and boldly savory, this classic Pinoy comfort dish serves 4.

Kare-kare is a rich Filipino meat and vegetable stew in peanut sauce, simmering pork hocks and stewing beef with eggplant, green beans, and annatto-tinted oil. Serve with rice and bagoong.

An old-fashioned root vegetable stew with salt pork, cabbage, carrots, turnips, parsnips, and potatoes slow-steamed until fork-tender. Farmhouse cooking at its most honest and filling.

Ragout de boulettes: Quebec-style pork meatball stew with cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg in a browned flour gravy. A traditional French-Canadian holiday dish.

Chili verde stew for a crowd: browned pork simmered with potatoes, corn, green peppers, and tomatoes in a cumin-and-oregano broth. A hearty big-batch stew built to feed a hungry party.

Classic feijoada, Brazil's hearty black bean stew simmered with sausage, beef, pork, and bacon until thick and rich. Served over rice with bright orange slices, the way it's done in Brazil.

Caldo Gallego: hearty Galician white bean stew with salt pork, ham bone, chorizo, potatoes, and collard greens. A slow-simmered Spanish comfort stew that warms you to the bone.

Caribou roast larded with salt pork, marinated in port wine with cloves and bay leaves, then slow-braised with cranberry juice and onions. A Northern wild game classic for hearty appetites.

Kare-kare is a classic Filipino stew of pork hocks and beef in a rich peanut butter sauce with eggplant and green beans, colored with annatto. Served with rice and bagoong.

Slow cooker Brunswick stew with ground chicken and pork, creamed corn, canned tomatoes, and a kick of Tabasco. A thick, smoky Southern stew that gets better the longer it cooks.

Italian polenta with beef and sausage stew, a rustic Northern Italian dish of braised beef, hot Italian sausage, and mushrooms served over creamy polenta.

Pichelsteiner is a hearty Bavarian layered stew of pork, beef, and mutton slow-cooked with potatoes, carrots, celeriac, and leeks in beef stock. A rustic German classic that gets better the next day.

Veal stew braised in sour cream and white wine with mushrooms, onions, and Worcestershire sauce. A rich, old-world Dutch oven stew served over curried rice.

Carbonnade flamande, the Belgian beef-and-beer stew: chunks of beef simmered low in dark stout with caramelized onions, brown sugar, vinegar, and a Dijon-smeared piece of stale bread that thickens the gravy.

Escudella de pages, a traditional Catalan country stew with veal, chicken, salt pork, cabbage, beans, rice, and pasta in a saffron-scented bone broth. Old-world Spanish peasant food that eats like a meal in a bowl.