The most typical ingredients used in Polish cuisine are sauerkraut, beetroot, cucumbers (gherkins), sour cream, kohlrabi, mushrooms, sausages and smoked sausage. A meal owes it taste to the herbs and spices used; such as marjoram, dill, caraway seeds, parsley, or pepper. The most popular desserts are cakes and pastries. A shot of vodka is an appropriate addition to festive meals and help you to digest the food.
Go to his profile. He is a Nepalese trying to show some respect and admiration. Maybe he got the same in Poland as he came? :) ... maybe love too :D ...
Romi Shahi
Whatever you say correct or not well researched ... in whichever way! ... I THANK YOU!... welcome to Poland.
Go to his profile. He is a Nepalese trying to show some respect and admiration.
I have nothing against Romi. I just have an allergic reaction to stereotypes, whether positive or negative. And the Polish food = gherkins, sausages and mushrooms stereotype just totally gets my goat ;-)
WOW. And to think I've lived in Poland most of my life... I would say everyday Polish cuisine is very "cosmopolitan" in the sense of "not typically Polish" - stuff like roast chicken, potatoes and salad, or meatballs and spaghetti, or fried fish and potatoes and salad, or pizza (I mean home-made), or the famous kotlety schabowe... Usually it's some form of fried or roast meat, potatoes, and salad. And soup. I don't know many women who toil in their kitchens every day to produce pierogi, bigos, gołąbki or other types of old-timesy, basically peasant food.
It's only when we have guests from abroad, or live abroad ourselves, that we start overloading on the "traditional" ingredients such as mushrooms or gherkins. And during Christmas and Easter, of course ;-)
Nothing wrong with Polish food, Great selection of soups, salads etc although I tend to add my own ingredients into some of the more traditional meals, Golobki, Pierogi, to liven them up a little, as these can be a little bland for me however i'm into spicy garlicy food.
Kielbasa and Kaszanka are great for barbecuing, along with the great variety of Polish beers and hot summers, your on a winner every time.
Cabbage. With cabbage sauce. With this rotten-cabbage (Sauerkraut) salad as a side dish. And of course a nice cup of the cabbage tea. That's the "most typical ingredients".
Never understood this - it seems to me that the food itself is just a variation on the typical Northern European diet - meat, potatoes and vegetables, with a heart-attack inducing amount of salt.
Or a heart-attack inducing amount of vegeta. :)
During the commie times people cooked from the ingredients that were available on the market, and we all know how the shelves in the shops looked like in those times. These days people cook from the ingredients they can afford... I always love it when someone writes here on PF that Poles only love chicken and pork. It's not really a case of love but of the size of your wallet. Few months back I read somewhere that a statistical Pole ate 7kg beef per year in 1989, while these days it's only around 1kg. How many people eat duck these days? Rabbit? Crawfish? Nutria? :)
The contemporary polish cuisine is a pre-WW 2 peasant cuisine, that got bastardized by the lack of resources during the commie period, that got further bastardized during the 90's by the unhealthy novelties like maggi, aforementioned vegeta and the likes of kostka rosołowa. The major influences of the 2000's are Vietnamese pho soup in Warsaw and kebab/gyros in the province. :)
Still, there is lots to be discovered and to fall back on. The things that I always miss when abroad are dark beer from my region (Fortuna Czarne being my favourite), home-made nalewki, cold meats with fruits in jelly and proper sausage (that is one from your local butcher and not that stuff from the super-market), wątrobianka (liver pate?) with a cucumber "mało solny" on it, bread with proper smalec, my mother-in-laws mother-in-laws szarlotka ;), pyzy with duck and mizeria ( not the ready-made stuff available in every corner shop), "miodownik", "pijak" and of course the humble "placek drożdżowy". For over twenty years I have been immune to it's charm, and then suddenly it stroke me! I guess you could call me a "placek drożdżowy" addict!
Bryza- superb, full nutty flavor and chewy, meaty flesh. The only good variety I have ever met in Poland. Similar to Bintjes, if not the same. Good for any purpose, though not fluffy when mashed (which is fine by me).
Irga and Astra- mediocre, blander starchier potatoes
Wineta and Denar- AWFUL, watery and tasteless, but make mashed potatoes that looked good. Why these are popular on the market, God only knows.
When I lived in Skierniewice, between Warsaw and £ódź, Bryza were popular and plentiful, as well as Irga and Astra.
Then I moved to Wrocław, only Winety and Denary were available, and Bryzy were not to be found at any price. It was terrible until we found a outside source for Bryzy.
I watch the TV guy with the yellow Syrena, who cooks a lot of 'wild' food......his recipies are superb......but being a Brit I substitute the Garlic with onions (wild garlic) or chives.....He does overdo the garlic a bit (sorry that was a bit of a joke over do!!!!! the man,s a maniac with garlic!!)......I can tell you the food is still superb without the garlic...if you follow the recipie and the way he cooks it. (Sorry I can,t remember his name) always watch him on TV when I can.
The most typical ingredients used in Polish cuisine are sauerkraut, beetroot, cucumbers (gherkins), sour cream, kohlrabi, mushrooms, sausages and smoked sausage
You forgot potatoes!
What are you making for your New Years dinner today ?
Johhny, my wife made spaghetti bolognese for the rest of the family while I, as usual, made sth else for myself - Spanish paella with shrimp and squid.
But I added Polish flavour to it, namely fried potato chunks and pieces of fried herring fillet.
Both dishes contained savoury cold pastries with minced meat, fish or cheese. I must say they were really attractive to the palate and some novelty to me cos the Polish cuisine depends on other kinds of pastries, namely hot ones.
Sorry for the quality of the photo - pastry dish first. Then cake offer. I completed my two dishes with a fruit meringue cake dessert and 3 pralines.
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