Polish Cooking Recipes
Hluski is simply cabbage and noodles. There are various hluski noodles you can buy. You can use a homemade noodles recipe or you can make potato dumplings, which are my favorite. Pierogi can be stuffed with potato and cheese, which is the most popular. I also like them stuffed with sauerkraut, sauerkraut and potatoes or cottage cheese. Some people even eat them stuffed with prunes, which is a really unique dish.
Polish cooking is often economical because it mainly encapsulates peasant culinary traditions. It requires not fancy ingredients, but rather a willingness to put in some time in the kitchen, something that is worth doing in order to create these recipes and reproduce the tastes and textures of really good food! What you’ll need to do some serious polish cooking is cabbage or sauerkraut. Lots of scallions and mushrooms, pickles, beets and cucumbers are incorporated into Polish cooking recipes. Fish is of the sturgeon family. Carp, which is now farmed, is popular in Poland as well as pike, perch. Polish meats include lots of pork and sausage products. The main herbs used in recipes from Poland would be dill, parsley, garlic, mustard seeds and horseradish. Sour cream and brine cheeses are the main ingredients from the dairy family. You'll notice the use of dill and sour cream in salads and soup recipes of Poland. Light rye bread with caraway seeds are served with meals. There are 12 Lenten dishes to equal the number of apostles, including a beet soup, herring, carp in black sauce and a mushroom dish. Christmas is an important time for the Roman Catholic Church, and the elaborate Polish meal on Christmas Eve is gastronomically typical. In the 19th century, access to French cook books led to Polish cooking becoming richer. Alongside pickled veggies are high-quality jams, which are used for making excellent sweet pies and cakes. The tradition of annual jam-making is still widely practiced in the home. Poppy seed rolls are a classic example of Polish sweet yeast baking. Home-baked goods, ranging from apple strudels and poppy seed rolls to cheesecakes are reflective the sweet recipes you will see in Poland. One of the main things indigenous of the Pittsburgh area are wedding cookies. Anytime we have a wedding in the area, everyone gets together and brings their favorite cookies, so there are many Polish cookie recipes. I thought any wedding included a "cookie table", but realized we only do that in Pittsburgh! Below are some of my favorite Polish cooking recipes.Stuffed Cabbage Reference: Chamberlain, Lesley, Russian, German & Polish Food & Cooking
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