Sauerkraut Stew / Vegan Bigos

Another fairly simple recipe here.
This can be a plain Sauerkraut Stew or a Vegan Bigos (polish hunter's stew).

Ingredients:

• 27oz can of sauerkraut (or at least somewhere close to that amount), drained
• One 12oz bottle of beer (Budweiser works well, but use whatever you like just make sure the taste pairs well with the sauerkraut first)
• 2 or 3 medium tomatoes, diced
• 1/2oz dried wild mushrooms prepared as package says and rough chopped or a couple handfuls of  fresh mushrooms, sliced
• 1 medium onion halved and thinly sliced
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 tsp. caraway more or less to taste.
• fresh ground black pepper to taste
• 1 tbsp. soy sauce (this replaces the beef stock taste, you could instead use vegan beef stock granules or cubes which are usually just dried up soy sauce, onion, garlic anyway.) 

Optional Ingredients (to make a bigos):

• vegan polish sausage
• vegan stew beef

Adjust the amounts to meet your preference, bigos and stew in general isn't an exact science anyway.

Preparation:
Fry the onions and garlic in the bottom of the pot with about 1 tbsp. of oil until garlic becomes very fragrant and the onions transparent. Next add the mushrooms and the tomatoes and cook about a minute or two. Now in goes the caraway, black pepper, drained sauerkraut, soy sauce, vegan meats if applicable, and the beer. All that remains now is letting the soup simmer over medium-low heat for about an hour to let the flavors meld and dry it up a little if it appears too soupy.

Now enjoy. This makes around 4 servings.
Oh, and don't be afraid to experiment.