Polish Christmas Eve Dinner recipes

Alright iknow its kinda early but I'm in charge of doing our polish dinner on christmas eve. Plus candian thanksgiving is done now just for U.S then it'll be christmas in no time. And I wanna make it totaly differnt with many new foods. So what are your fav polish recipes to have on christmas eve??? Ill keep the traditional pierogi and keilbasa and such but I hate things like gumpki and crap nasty stuff. Anythin is welcome as the rest of my fam are total pigs and will eat anything.

Thanx :)

Polish. Canadian. No kielbasa for a traditional wigilia. Golomki traditionally has meat as well.

Why not just cook food you know people will like? Try home made salmon fish cakes as a fish alternative to carp - do a classy buffet style - do whatever your family like sweetie xx

Ahhhh yes I meant traditional by my fam which only my dad is part Polish so they just make what they like LOL. Yes thats why we have salmon also, but I would like to keep it to a real Polish dinner this year, so no meat at all right ehhhh


Doesnt matter i'm the only picky eater LOL We usually just do grilled salmon, But I wanna do Polish recipes. So they will like anything I make. But I dont know many polish recipes, and we Americanize any of the Polish things my mom makes. So I want the real recipes, we once did Polish bread that took 2 days to make, like that was fun.

Ok so be direct. Ok our gorgeous texas mod must have some ideas??? Or Aphro can you help out?

There's a mod here from Texas?!? really damn well a few ideas just from looking on pinterest, are these good things to try?
Mazurek makowo- kokosowy
Trufle czekoladowe
Krusciki
I made Karpatka a few weeks ago that was pretty good, i'm sure my parents and fam would like it also.

Lemon Blueberry Pierogi
I would love to try making some piergoi from scratch is this hard, does anyone know. We always just buy them.
Lazanki
Kutia
Idk i'll keep looking but if anyone has had any of these before would be nice to know what you thought of them

I associate mazurki more with Easter than Christmas, but there's usually something with poppy-seed on Christmas Eve supper so why not (although I'm not a big fan of poppy-seed tbh, but that's me).


They're called faworki in my region and yesssss, I worship them (at least those made by my grandma ;d)!!! xD <3 Niebo w gębie :D


I recommend adding jelly cubes to the cream (for example strawberry or cherry flavoured) :)


I've never tasted such a mix, so I don't know whether they are going to be good or not :)


I wouldn't say they're difficult to make, you can check how they're made on Youtube:




Kutia is more an Eastern thing, I guess (Ukrainian, Russian, etc.), but it is eaten in some regions of Poland. I don't think I've ever eaten it and it doesn't sound too encouraging, tbh :P If you want to make it with wheat grains then you'll have to play Cinderella and peel every grain seperately, from what I've read ;O

Basically, dishes vary from region to region, from family to family.

There are supposed to be 12 dishes and usually there have to be some dishes that contain poppy-seed, mushrooms, honey, sauerkraut, to make it traditional.
Fish dishes are the only meat dishes served at Christmas Eve.

The Christmas dishes I personally like are:

1. Barszcz czerwony z uszkami - borscht with uszka (uszka are sth similar to pierogi, with a filling made of sauerkraut and mushrooms), it's a beetroot soup (and my favourite soup in general).

youtube.com/watch?v=I_yE5F93XOc

2. The fish dish (lol) I love is śledzie w oleju z cebulą - herring fillets in oil with onion:

gotujmy.pl/sledzie-w-oleju-z-cebula,przepisy-sledz-przepis,52089.html

3. I also like the all time classic sałatka jarzynowa - vegetable slalad with mayo and mustard (I think Russians have it too and eat it at New Year's Eve, if I'm not mistaken):

ugotuj.to/ugotuj/62133982/tradycyjna+salatka+jarzynowa+z+majonezem/p/

As for cakes, there's always some cheescakes, charlotte cakes and all kinds of other cakes with cream or without cream.
Everybody loves karpatka in my family, also everone knows murzynek in Poland:

wizaz.pl/kulinaria/przepis,2037,murzynek-prosciutki-i-pyszny

I also like pleśniak (known as "fuga" in my family). Apparently recipes for it are circulating on Italian blogs and forums as "torta slava" (Slavic cake) lol

everycakeyoubake.blogspot.com/2008/03/dzie-kobiet-pleniak.html

Miodownik (honey cake) is also a nice cake for Christmas.


Sorry, wrong links lol
This is a recipe for miodownik :):
domowe-wypieki.pl/przepisy-ciasta-miodowe/495-przepis-na-miodownik-z-masa-budyniowa

Btw, miodownik should be eaten two, three days after baking, because the cake is softer then.

Happy Holidays! ! ! To their family and friends to buy gifts yet

4.Pierogi z kapustą i grzybami - wild mushrooms sauerkraut pierogi kwestiasmaku.com/kuchnia_polska/pierogi/pierogi_z_kapusta/przepis .html
5. Another fish dish - Smażona ryba w panierce - Fried breaded fish - there are countless recipes on the internet, just pick the one you like.

I just saw this pic and well it looks cool. Yeah im not a poppy seed fan either never had them.


They look SOOO GOOD i'll deff have to try these, wanna share the recipe :P LOL cukier wysoki jednak wiele LOL


Figured my parents would like it, lol idk i'm just a potato filling pierogi kinda girl lol


Strawberry yes, but should this be the dessert I make or is something else better?


I think it looks nasty, never something I would try lol, I'll skip it no way im hand peeling grains LOL


I love Barszcz we always have it but the addition of dumplings sounds great although i've never had mushrooms or sauerkraut before, the Chinese dumplings I tried a few weeks ago are alright.


Herring hmmm never had it, does it taste kinda like swordfish looks kinda like it?? It looks good, but would it be weird to have something like swordfish or chilian sea bass??? We usually do salmon.


NASTY LOL but my parents would so love it, so i'll add it


Desert is my FAVORITE part lol I LOVE chocolate is that chocolate cake?????
Ever had złośliwy piernik Or Paczki


My mom would LOVE that with like blackberry jelly

And then this sounds good lol


Looks like Fish Fry a classic dish aka fish and chips around here on Fridays, never had it before but seems cheap.


Dad would LOVE that

Tort czekoladowy
OMG NOW THIS LOOKS GOOD Nalesniki Z Bananami

Are you talking about pgt? She's not from Texas, only Poland.

Thank you for putting up a all recipes links shearing.Pad Krapao Moo Sap. It's lovely and one of my favorites.

I've got a selection of twelve Polish dishes for Christmas Eve dinner in Poland here: sz-n.com/category/food-2/. Any criticisms are welcome.

Apart form Christmas Even Dinner being big in Poland there is traditional Polish Christmas Day Dinner:
Roast goose with red cabbage and potatoes,

That's a German custom for St. Martin's Day (Nov. 11), and it's not practiced widely in Poland except in and near Poznań. In Germany, the custom has now spread or been transferred to Christmas Day, as well. MAYBE some Polish families eat goose on Christmas day, but it is not by any means a widespread tradition, at least nowadays. Poles are not big goose eaters, by and large, and the overwhelming bulk of geese raised in Poland end up on the German market (87% in 2010), with the overwhelming bulk of the rest ending up in other western countries like Holland, Belgium, Denmark and the UK. The livers end up in France.

I know this is a little late, but I just got on here today. Our Polish tradition for our Polish Christmas Eve Wigelia dinner was Mushroom Soup made from dried mushrooms form Poland, a mild white fish broiled in a pan in the oven with butter & lemon, non-meat pirogues with sautéed onions & sour cream, Sauerkraut sautéed with onions, mushrooms & caraway seed. And for desert, usually a poppyseed yeast dough cookan. (Don't know what it was called) We would take the wafers at the beginning of the meal and go around the table blessing each other as we shared a bit of the wafer with each other. Lovely tradition! Then we would all go off to Midnight Mass.

I was in Warsaw between December and January.

The long lines for top food being eaten by locals was

-suya
-kebab
-curry
-chinese takaway
-pho
- KFC
-Subway
- pizza
- hamburgers

Hmm, I visited Warsaw, Poland, a dozen times within the last 10 years and never heard of/seen such a dish. Also in other Polish cities. Are you sure you are talking about Warsaw, Poland? Because there are a few other Warsaws in the world......

Yes, Warsaw Poland.

Suya is an awesome and popular dish among Poles of colour and our organized social justice allies who practice diversity, tolerance, inclusion and respect.

I wouldn't expect any nationalists or crypto-nationalists to know this. Or to know what's really going on in the Polish capital and how much it has permanently changed demographically and for the better over the past 10 years.

That's Okay though. Nationalists and crypto-nationalists only march through Warsaw with flags and flares a couple times a year for a few hours and then head straight back home to their villages before it gets too dark.

But where Warsaw leads, the rest of Poland follows!

So don't be stranger. Warsaw loves tourists like you. Come back sometime soon and enjoy the suya! Tell 'em Shitonya sent ya!

Poles of colour?
What colour may they be then?
Oh yeah,your colour.
The more I think about your handle and the more I read your posts I get a real Australian feel from them....a black Australian feel...

Oh, I see. I didn`t know because I don`t meet them too often. Perhaps that`s because I rarely leave my village.


I will surely will. :)

Carp ala Polish Jewish. Take some fish heads, raisins, almonds, walnuts, add chopped onion, spices and a lot of sugar, boil and voilla! Excellent dish for Ch Eve. Simple!:

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is an awful fish, I wouldn't eat it even if they would pay me to do it.

Yes, in old Poland it was a bit neglected, treated as cheap fish for commons, while the elites used to eat nobler species. :):)
But Polish Jews appreciated it and invented that wonderful recipe which I adopted coz the dish is so sweet. Besides, I have always liked nuts, raisins and such stuff.

Carp as bottom feeder for commons and the elites prefered noble predator fish like perch or pike.

Pike dishes: stuffed, in jelly, in saffron sauce etc

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Do you keep a crap in your bathtub around Xmas time like so many other Polocks do?

I seen this one guy had a carp and never refreshed the water and it went belly up. Then is asked, duh what happened to it??? He must have thought it was an Aquarium! LOL

Looks and sounds absolutely disgusring....Pawian, you are turning into a troll....

This is the type of dinner that time has forgotten about, except for the bathtubs of Poland!

@Miloslaw
Carp of a Jewish style, would be better.

I haven`t heard about cases of trolling by showing food which, as you can see in the photos, is eaten by native Poles. You must have had a little emotional breakdown to write it. AmaSSing!


No, it hasn`t, it is delicious, I eat everything on the plate, leaving only quills and fins. That`s the tradition in which I was brought up. Why are you critisizing time honoured traditions which harm nobody and are another country`s speciality? You and Milo are uncultured trolls here, not me.

HA!!!