Your favourite Polish foods!

Soup? More like "kapuśniak".
Lots of recepies in internet. Smacznego:)

just thought of another favourite, placki po bieszczadzku....yum yum!

alligator,can you give me a phonetic spelling of the English pronunciation?

Phonetic spelling looks like this: kaˈpuɕɲak
There is also another soup that is similar to kapuśniak - "kwaśnica". They have similar ingredients. Check recepies to find which one your grandfather used to make.

Alligator,Thank you.

I'm glad I could help:)

Fresh mushrooms from the nearest forest in your area harvested after autumn rain in Poland (mushrooms: maślaki, podgrzybki, prawdziwki... but not pieczarki :)). Fried them with lard, salt and pepper and lots of parsley. A slice or two of fresh bread and voila ;)


upssss: in my area

And kania, breaded and fried like a snycel.

I find pierogi to be quite varied. Even like the blueberry-filled ones :D

Those I like. Also the Lwowski ones with a sort of bolognese sauce in are interesting. By and large though, the Ruski and cabbage ones people eat day to day here are very samey and diversity isn't always appreciated. There's also two schools of thought about how thick the dough should be. I tend to prefer thin though stodgy is definitely more popular.

rydz fried on butter !


For your fried out taste buds :D

Or just sophisticated. I notice that when eating out here people are starting to prefer a variety too.

I'll tell ya what I could do without, that gross smoked cheese, oscypek. I heard that stuff was an impediment to Poland joining the EU.

That's one of the better Polish products though a lot of it is industrially mass-produced.. 99% of the other cheese is either white cheese (sometimes called 'farmers' cheese though it comes from huge factories), industrially processed and bland 'yellow cheese', things like Kraft slices or gooey blocks of spreadable chemicals wrapped in tinfoil There are one or two artisan cheesemakers who've started up - one of them quite good - but they haven't caught on with the public yet.

No, man, I hate the real thing. I hate the very smell of it. When I was in Karpacz, you couldn't walk five yards without being assaulted by the yuck. I heard the EU had temperature and preparation concerns that almost precluded it's allowance.

There were issues about it, but most (including all supermarket stuff) is pasteurised now. I'd be wary of buying it in street stalls though. Have you tried it grilled?

Yeah, that's how they serve it in Karpacz. I love almost anything with char marks, but I just can't get into that cheese. My wife's penchant for making tosty with ketchup is something I could never understand, either. Hot ketchup? Blecch.

Merged: What are your favourite and least favourite Polish and foreign foods?

What would you go for?

Favourite Polish food is probably most types of pierogi. Not strictly Polish food I think but often cooked in Poland. Most flavours are good. White cheese ones, yes!!!! Oh yeah and placki ziemniaczane. Oh man!!!!!!

Least favourite, not much Polish food that I dislike really. Probably flaki [a type of soup for those who are unfamiliar with it]. Even the look of it is horrible and having tried it once it was like eating a tub of grease with worms in it.

As for foreign food, well living in Britain there is a lot of it. Chinese and Italian is nice once in a while, but British food? Not a fan of it, it is very bland. I do like some of the puddings though, the crumbles with custard are nice, apple being my flavour of choice.

WielKiPolak,My favorite polish food are golumpki's,sad to to say that I haven't had enough Polish cuisine to contribute much about it.My

Grandfather use to make a potato dish,he would par boil the potatoes and then he would finish them in a frying pan with the grease from

salt pork cracklings and add fresh dill.I really liked those as well.I'm not too fond of standard pierogi,with potato stuffing or sour kraut.I'm

not sure how I would like the other varieties.

Most fav food? That's tough, seeing as I have soooo many favorites. If pushed, I'd have to say all the Polish soups I've had the pleasure to sample: pomidorowa(tomato), okórkowa(pickle), żurek, flaczki(tripe), barszcz(beet), the list is endless. Mmmm!..........Least fav: czarnina (duck's blood soup). My dad tried to get me to like this Silesian soup but I just couldn't :(

Is amazing!
Also offcourse Polish kielbasa is at the top of the list..

But my most fav. is Patato pancakes with gullasch (no idea what is the name in Polish)??
In general homecooked Polish food is very delicious!

Gołąbki?

If yes, then I quite like them too. Generally I find most Polish food extremely bland and stodgy though and particularly dislike sodden , limp and dripping salads. Pierogi can be nice, especially Pierogi Lwówskie, fillers with a sort of Bolognese Sauce. Kielbasa I don't touch - they are very, very bad for you.

My favourite is probably chłodnik Litewskie. A classic. That and Botwinka and Czarnina of course.

How could I forget to mention kielbasa!! Rybnik,have you ever had a soup that was tomato based with pork and sour kraut?

Kapuśniak!!!!! Of course. How could I have forgotten. Sauerkraut soup. My ex mother-in-law made a killer version! Damn, p3, I'm at work right now and my stomach's growling. I'm hungry now!!! lol

Do you mean Bogracz?

Not like the fabulously varied stuff offered in Polish restaurants eh? Just love that breaded pork with cold cabbage. Seriously though, I have several bookshelves full of cookbooks, and the traditional recipies from the UK include some great dishes. People have forgotten how to cook, unfortunately. Next time you're in London treat yourself to a meal at Rules, Covent Garden, a very traditional old English restaurant, and then tell me about bland English food.


Can't say I've ever seen these in Poland.
For me, good flaczki is/are sublime.

not in moderation ;)

Everything in moderation - even bread with smalec sometimes ;-)

YES! talk about sublime, Mmmm

My mother-in-law makes hers from the best meat, a little fat, and spices. Then she smokes them over alder (sometimes with a little juniper added) in her garden. They are fabulous.