For this dish we will need quite a bit of ingredients. To begin cut the meat into small pieces, the size of a small walnut. Initially, the author recommended to take the neck, but I took the rear foot, i.e. the meat is more lean.

Bacon cut into small pieces and put into a heated container, which we will do mulgikapsad (I took the good old baking dish). In the throes of bacon, that he had melted the fat, then remove it on a plate, and formed a little fat roast meat, 5-7 minutes. If you have more fatty the meat, the bacon can not put and fry meat in small amount of vegetable oil. Now the fire can be turned off, and the meat to flatten on the bottom.

Came the sauerkraut. If you have the cabbage is very salty or acidic, it can be washed. I have a cabbage was, that is, the most it is moderately salty, moderately acidic, so I did not rinse (respectively, I and not salted enough salt in the cabbage. Adjust the amount of salt to taste). Put the cabbage on top of meat, sprinkle with cumin and add a pinch of sugar, about 1 teaspoon without top.

On top of the cabbage spread our fried bacon (to be honest, that's my gag, I wanted to make the barley a little soaked kopchinski, you can leave the bacon along with the meat), pour the pearl barley, thoroughly washed. Now fill the next mulgikapsad water so that water covered the cabbage. Close the lid and send in the preheated oven for about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Some sources suggest to do mulgikapsad on the stove, but I decided, since national dish, to do it in the oven (for lack of a furnace). And while preparing, I can tell you where this is unusual to the Russian ear the name. It translates as "cabbage, as allgov". Russian is an ethnic group in Estonia, famous for its thrift (not to be confused with stinginess! D ), in the South-West Estonia has a cultural-historical region of Mulgimaa - country allgov. Nebulosa the abundance nature of those places and contributed in some way to create just such a simple and hearty meals (and maybe another dish allgov of mangipudi will tell you how later).

Well that's all, and you can set the table! As promised, forces spent at least, soiled dishes, too, is nothing but the result - a wonderful fall and winter dinner! Very very recommend!