Polish Cuisine

Polish cuisineshares many similarities with other Slavic countries, especially Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian cuisines,rich in meat especiallly pork, chicken and beefdishes are mainly stodgyalmost every single dish contains potatos

Polish tastesit's sour cabbage sometimes with slices of carotsauerkaut beetrootsAre use to make 'chodnik litewski' cold yoghurt-and-beetroot soup served with hard boiled egg

Cucumbersmore often than not we pickle them and about 3 weekes later we eat them like a snack or use picled cucumbers to make 'Zupa ogrkowa' it's just hot picled cucumber soup.

Mushroomswe also pickle them and use in many dishes for example to make dumplings 'pierogi'DumplingsAre very traditional small but larger than ravioli, filled with sauerkraut with mushrooms, cheese and potatoes or with fruit. They can be also with meat. SmokedcheeseSausagesIn various kinds: white sausage, kabanos- its long, thin and dry sausage, tipically they are quite long, 60 cm, and thin but now they are in many kinds and flavours.

Also we have got some strange dishes:KaszankaIt's grilled or baked solid pieces of buckwheat blended with pork blood and shaped as sausages.Ozorki w galarecieIt's soft steamed beef tongues in clear jelly.FlaczkiIt' s soup made of beef tripe.It's a meat dish made from finely chopped or minced raw beef. It is often served with onions and egg.Tatar

But how to live without sweets?Faworkisweet crisp pastry made out of dough that has been shaped into thin twisted ribbons, deep-fried and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Makowiec is a pastry consisting of a roll of sweet yeast bread with a dense, rich, bittersweet filling of poppy seed. Doughnutsfat cheese cakeSernik

High days and holidaysFirst of all, you have to know that Poland is very religious country, that's why we have got so many high days.

Fat Thursday the last Thursday before LentEaster (no fixed date) Always on Sunday and Monday in March or April. Before Easter is Holy Saturday then we take 'wiconka' meaning "the blessing of the Easter baskets,"in which are dishes will be eating the next day.St. Andrew's Day always 30 November Day predictions for virgins, which foretell the future.Vigil always 24 December it's solemn supper. The tradition is to prepare 12 different dishes for example fishes, noodles, sauerkaut. After that we give each other presents. Christmas last in Poland 2 days 25 and 26 December.https://youtu.be/WbcQ8eD_mpc