List of Polish dishes

List of Polish Dishes

Polish cuisine is a style of cooking and food preparation originating from Poland. It has evolved over the centuries due to historical circumstances. Polish cuisine shares many similarities with other Central European cuisines, especially German, Austrian and Hungarian cuisines, as well as Jewish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Russian, French and Italian culinary traditions. It is rich in meat, especially pork, chicken and beef (depending on the region) and winter vegetables (cabbage in the dish bigos), and spices. It is also characteristic in its use of various kinds of noodles, the most notable of which are kluski, as well as cereals such as kasha (from the Polish word kasza).

Main Dishes

• Bigos - Often translated into English as 'hunter's stew,' it is a mixture of sauerkraut, fresh cabbage, various kinds of meat and sausages, and optionally, mushrooms.

• Pierogi - A type of dumpling, usually filled with sauerkraut, meat, potato, or fruit.

• Golabki - A dish made from boiled cabbage leaves wrapped around a filling of minced pork or beef, chopped onions, and rice or barley.

• Kotlet Schabowy - A breaded pork cutlet, similar to a Wiener schnitzel, usually served with mashed potatoes and cabbage salad.

• Zrazy - A rolled and stuffed slice of beef, which is then sautéed.

Soups

• Barszcz - A beetroot soup, often served with a small dumpling known as uszka (filled with wild forest mushrooms and/or minced meat).

• Zurek - A sour rye soup, usually served with white sausage and hard-boiled egg.

• Rosol - A meat broth, typically served with noodles.

• Kapusniak - A cabbage soup made from sauerkraut.

Desserts

• Paczki - A filled doughnut, typically with rose jam filling.

• Makowiec - A poppy seed roll, it is a traditional pastry at Christmas and Easter.

• Sernik - A cheesecake made primarily of twaróg, a type of fresh cheese.

• Szarlotka - A traditional Polish apple pie, served hot or cold.

Beverages

• Kompot - A non-alcoholic sweet beverage, that may be served hot or cold.

• Mead - An alcoholic beverage created by fermenting honey with water, sometimes with the addition of fruits, spices, grains, or hops.

• Vodka - A distilled beverage, traditionally made by distilling the liquid from cereal grains that have been fermented.

This is a non-exhaustive food and drink related list.