Poland Traditional cuisine

Polish cuisine is varied and original. For many components, it is similar to Ukrainian and Russian cuisine, using, however, and brought about the elements of the culinary traditions of Germanic and Baltic peoples. Meals usually are substantial, the amount of seasonings and spices used in small, but they are used with great skill.

Of the meat dishes are well known for the famous sausage, ham with horseradish, roast veal, baked potatoes with onion sauce for pork loin, veal brains with herbs, fried tripe with boiled vegetables flyaki, cooked in a cream sauce with tomatoes and red pepper chicken, roasted duck "pitching" cabbage with bacon "pozhibroda, goose with apples" rec ", the meat in a cream sauce zrazh, stuffed goose neck, rabbit pate, pork cutlet, meatballs shabovi, pork leg with pea puree, golonka" , roast wild boar and the famous "Bigos" - a dish from a variety of types of meat and sauerkraut. Preference is given to fried foods.

Poland - country soups, there are hundreds and hundreds of species. Of the vegetable soups are good beetroot soup "Botvinko" kail "kapusnyak" soup of potatoes, vegetables and grains - krupnyak, soup with dumplings and slices of meat "rosol, soup with noodles" zacherka and sour soup Zurek " . No less interesting soup with goose blood "Chernin, soup in Polish, soup made from fresh cucumbers and a variety of borscht.

Equally popular and fish dishes - the famous baked pike, baked fish with horseradish, salad of herring, herring in cream sauce, carp Polish (head carp is served separately and is considered a festive meal), carp, tench or bream in a sauce from Polish, balls of fish in sauce with gherkins, hunter's ear, roll cod or perch, etc.

Mushrooms are very popular in Poland as boiled (serving a mandatory element, for example, many borsch) and fried, stewed, pickled, marinated and spiced. Fresh-cut cucumbers served with honey, pepper or sour cream. Popular salad of red beets, potato salad with beans, pumpkin pancakes with sausage, salad of radish and apple salad with red cabbage, cabbage Chervona and others served in a fried potato, boiled and in the form of pancakes with onions and sour cream. The most popular fast Polish dish - "pudding", a long bun, baked with onions, cheese and mushrooms.

Products from the test - an indispensable attribute of a traditional table. In addition to all the famous dumplings (pulpety ") that go to many dishes are popular cottage cheese pancakes, cheese cakes, pies and potatoes, cheese or mushrooms" perogi, lazanki with bacon, "ears" with stuffing, etc. The traditional Polish dessert is a cake "Mazurek", "poppy cakes, pretzels with poppy seeds, sand roll with nut filling, and the love of Mike cakes and jams, cakes and other pastries.

From drinks have traditionally given preference for vodka ( "Vyborova", "Zhitnyaya" or "Zubrovka"), tinctures (Mysliwska "," porterovka "," karamelevka "," apelsinovka "or" limonovka "), brandy (plum brandy" and " vinniak ") and beer (Zywiec, Lezajsk, Okocim or Piast). Very popular soft drinks - kvass kissels, and juices red and black currant.

For breakfast is often served in kefir, yogurt, with a curdled, usually served hot boiled potatoes. First courses are mostly borscht, cabbage soup, rossolnik, beetroot soup, saltworts, soups, mashed potatoes. By borscht and scham in Poland decided to file instead of bread, hot boiled potatoes. Favorite dishes in our cuisine are the dishes from the scars (flyaki on-Warsaw, flyaki in sauce, soup with a scar).

Diverse in the Polish kitchen, fruit and berry desserts (fruit salad, ice cream, sweet pancakes), confectionery and bakery products.