- 4 yellow onions
- salt
- oil
Sauté the onions with oil and salt in a Dutch oven until caramelized.
- 3 C vegetable broth
- 3 lbs yams
Cut the yams into chunks and add them to the onions. Add vegetable broth. Simmer for a while.
- 1 T crushed red pepper (optional)
- 1 lb polish sausage
- 4 green apples
- 2 lbs carrots
Chop the apples and carrots and thinly slice the sausage. Add all of these. If you're using crushed red pepper, add it now as well. Simmer for a while longer.
- 2 T worchestershire sauce
- 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- salt
Add the Worchestershire sauce and cloves. Salt to taste.
The term "Polish sausage" isn't really descriptive - the Polish are really into their sausages, and there are dozens of varieties. The one I've used and liked is an uncooked pork sausage that I think is mainly flavored with coriander. This goes quite well with the other ingredients. If using a different sausage, you may want to add coriander seed - perhaps fry it in the oil in the very beginning as you would for an Indian curry.
And as this is a stew, you can vary the amounts of things pretty freely. This recipe was recorded the second time I made it, and has significantly more yams and carrots. To reproduce the original version, which has a more pronounced sweet-and-sour taste, cut the yams and carrots by half, remove one apple and one onion, and adjust the seasonings to taste.