Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name

There are a few of them - they allude to foreign origin but strangely, are completely unknown in the countries which are refered to in the dish name. Amasing.

Beans ala Bretonne - fasolka po bretońsku. Big beans in thick tomato sauce with pieces of sausage or bacon. Yummy!

Bretagne is a province in France where they don`t know such a dish.

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Actually they do but it doesn't contain sausage. Basically beans in tomato sauce:

marieclaire.fr/cuisine/haricots-blancs-a-la-bretonne,1205852.asp

Chlodnik Litewski and placki po Węgiersku come to kind.

Chlodnik is one of the nicest things in Polish cuisine.

And of course what in Poland is called barszcz Ukraińskie is the Polish version, quite specifically different from borscht in Ukraine.

There are a few others too. I can think of several more.

I'll try not to mention pierogi r*skie...

Kołduny litewskie or Pawian's Karp po żydowsku.

With or without sausage, it is practically the same. Amasing! The Polish net refuses to acknowledge the presence of such a dish in Bretagne, France. :):):)

Jon, I will soon reply to your post but let me first finish with the dishes unknown in the country which the name suggests.


Herring ala Japanese - pickled herring, an egg, peas, pickled cucumber, onion, mayonaise. Once a very popular appetizer with vodka.

If you google śledź po japońsku, you will find tens of different arrangements of the ingredients. Here is just one of them:

and the recipe:
swojskiejedzonko.com/2017/12/sledz-po-japonsku.html Very easy.

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I will have to try herring again as I haven't tried it since I was a kid and it made me feel sick.
Tastes change as you get older and I like most seafood now.

Yes, but when trying herring, choose its pickled version in which fishbones are soft coz if not, they practically make the dish inedible. Crisp fried version also greatly deals with fishbones but only in small fish..

I will take your advice.
It was the fishbones that made me feel sick as a kid, like eating thick hair......

Yes, I hate them, too. I can`t forget the incident in my childhood when a fishbone got stuck in my throat and nobody and nothing could help for a few hours. I was really scared I would have to go to hospital for an operation. :):):)

Yes, truly disgusting and possibly scary too.

That sounds quite nice.

Nicer than ryba po grecku which I'm not fond of.

I've never actually tried that.


No, I don't fancy that. I wouldn't want the egg and the peas in it. I've read about this dish before though. It grew popular after the end of WW2. I think it also used to be served with potato salad.

ryba po grecku - nom nom :)

Fish ala Greek was never my cup of tea. I wonder why. Probably it is so messy on the plate with all those veg in tomato sauce heaped on the fish that I have always feared choking on a fishbone which I am likely to overlook in this chaos.

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A few days ago I read a blog by a Polish woman who married a Hungarian and settled in Budapest. She claims that the dish known in Poland as potato pancakes ala Hungarian doesn`t exist in her new country.

Polish dish is served with meat gravy containing large chunks of pork. I like the version with the addition of hot pickled pepperoni peppers best:

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That pic looks a lot prettier than the normal ones you see. I always think it should have more paprika in.

In restaurants I always get it with pickled cucumbers, not tomatoes.

Gherkins?

That is certainly more normal as an accompaniment.

Nie korniszony tylko kiszone.

That's what I mean.

Not the tiny cornichons which go best with pate (especially rillettes) anyway.

I could have told you that....

How old is the Polish dish placki węgierskie?

I had assumed it was.... inspired by hortobagyi palacsinta (Hortobagy naleśniki) but I just read that's not old and only dates from 1958....

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nale%C5%9Bniki_Hortob%C3%A1gy

Dumplings stuffed with potatoes and white cheese, i.e. "russian dumplings" (pierogi ruskie).

Actually that should be "ruthenian dumplings" (ruthenisch)

ruski for 'russian' is sort of rude... but it also means 'ruthenian' which is where they are from (and not russia at all).

They are not of foreign origin in the name. Ruskie explains from Provincia Ruska, an administrative district of the Polish Kingdom. More or less antebellum Wojewodztwo Lwowskie.

We call those vareniki. True Russian dumplings, are more circular in shape, and made only with ground meat. We call those - pelmeni.

Vareniki (crescent shaped pelmeni with potatoes instead of meat), are traditionally considered a Ukrainian recipe. They're also sometimes made with cherries, or something else sweet.

In the picture below, pelmeni are on the right, and vareniki on the left.

My theory, based on nothing, is that these come into Russian and Ukrainian cuisine from Asia. Maybe from the Tatars, or some of the other Steppe peoples. Looks too much like their dumplings to be a coincidence.

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Are they not served baked?

A few shops that sell them and restaurants that serve them now call them pierogi Ukrainskie.

You can bake them. You can fry them. You can boil them.

Most people buy them frozen at the store, and just boil them like macaroni. Ten minutes, and you've got yourself a dinner. Add sour cream, or maybe even ketchup if you're autistic.

In a restaurant, they'll usually be swimming around in their own broth, in a little clay pot like in the photo above.

1) Fried Pelmeni
2) Baked Pelmeni
3) Orthodox Christian Pelmeni

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Those people are the same kind of morons that say w Ukrainie rather than - na Ukrainie.
Don't know anything even their language.
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Looks interesting and reminds me of chinse stuff.