Polish Cuisine

Polish cuisine is the cuisine of the Polish people, mainly living in Poland.

Polish people traditionally speak Polish, a Slavic language related to Ukrainian and Russian.

Krakow is a major city.

Ingredients

rye, buckwheat, wheat

garlic, onion

beet

mushroom

herring

chicken, pork

Dishes

• sauerkraut(kapusta kiszona): pickled cabbage
• uszka: small dumplings, usually with mushroom and/or meat filling; often added to borscht
• pierogi: dumplings with meat or other filling
• kielbasa(kiełbasa): meat sausage with many variations
• kabanos: thin dried meat sausage seasoned with caraway
• krakowska: thick smoked meat sausage with garlic
• country sausage(wiejska): meat sausage, generally U-shaped and seasoned with herbs and garlic
• blood sausage / black pudding(kaszanka / kiszka / krupniok): meat sausage made with blood
• hunter’s stew(bigos): meat, sauerkraut, and fresh cabbage stew
• red borscht(barszcz czerwony): pickled beet soup
• cabbage soup(kapuśniak / kwaśnica): soup made with sauerkraut, pork, and sausage