Modern and traditional Polish recipes

Polish food has its admirers around the world. Now, using our Polish recipes collection, you can get to know how to prepare most of characteristic and delicious meals of the Polish cuisine. Tasting Poland introduces a comprehensive set of authentic Polish recipes, which are very popular in Poland and eagerly prepared. You will learn how to prepare Polish food quickly and without any problem.

Here, I made every effort to publish Polish recipes, that are enough detailed, since oftentimes the success of the food we prepare depends on details. The majority of Polish food recipes on Tasting Poland is well-tried — these are my reliable ones, based on authentic, original Polish cookbooks and culinary traditions. I hope that you will recognize this authentic Polish recipe collection - most original in English-speaking Internet - very useful :) Good luck and Smacznego! (Article continues below).

  Recipes for popular in Poland and traditional Polish first courses

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• Meat dish / vegetarian dish / dessert • Polish tradition • ciasto na pierogi

  Pierogi dough recipe

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• Main course • Meat • Polish tradition • pierogi z miesem

  Pierogi with meat filling

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• Vegetarian dish • Polish tradition • pierogi z kapusta i grzybami

  Pierogi or uszka with mushroom & cabbage filling

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• Vegetarian dish • Polish tradition • uszka

  Uszka for the Christmas Eve clear borscht

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• Main course • Dessert • Polish tradition • …z jagodami, borowkami, truskawkami

  Pierogi with bilberries, blueberries or strawberries

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• Main course • Vegetarian • Polish tastes • pierogi z pieczarkami i jajkami

  Pierogi with white mushrooms and eggs

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• Meat • Main course or an addition to meat • Polish tastes • bigos z mlodej kapusty

  Bigos (Hunter's stew) from young cabbage

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• Meat • Main course • Polish tastes • karczek duszony z kapusta

  White cabbage stewed with neck

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  Recipes for popular in Poland and traditional Polish soups

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• Meat / vegetarian soup • Polish tradition • zur, zurek

  Zur aka zurek soup recipe

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• Meat soup • Polish tradition • barszcz bialy

  White borscht recipe

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• Vegetarian soup • Polish tradition • wigilijny barszcz czerwony z grzybami

  Red borscht with mushrooms for Christmas Eve supper

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• Meat / vegetarian soup • Polish tradition • barszcz czerwony zabielany

  Red borscht with cream and potato

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• Meat / vegetarian soup • Ukrainian tradition • barszcz ukrainski

  Ukrainian borscht 1

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• Meat / vegetarian soups • One of Polish variations • barszcz ukrainski

  Simple Ukrainian borscht 2

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• Meat soup • Polish tradition • flaki, flaczki

  Polish flaki aka flaczki soup - beef tripe 1

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• Meat soup • Polish tradition • flaki po polsku

  'Flaki po polsku', tripe in a Polish manner

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• Soup • Polish tradition • zupa szczawiowa

  Polish sorrel soup - szczawiowa

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• Soup • Polish tradition • zupa koperkowa

  Polish dill soup soup - koperkowa

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• Soup • Polish tradition • zupa ogorkowa

  Ogorkowa - Polish cucumber soup recipe

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• Soup • Polish tradition • zupa pomidorowa

  Tomato soup recipe (zupa pomidorowa)

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• Soup • Polish & Lithuanian tradition • chlodnik

  Chlodnik - traditional cold borscht recipe 1

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• Soup • Polish & Lithuanian tradition • chlodnik

  Chlodnik - traditional cold borscht recipe 2

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• Meat soup • Hungarian tradition • zupa gulaszowa

  Goulash soup

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• Soup • Regional • Polish tradition • polewka kurpiowska

  Polewka kurpiowska - Soup of the Kurpie region

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• Soup • Old Polish tradition • staropolska zupa cebulowa

  Old Polish onion soup

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• Soup • Old Polish tradition • staropolska zupa piwna

  Old Polish beer soup

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  Recipes for popular in Poland and traditional Polish appetizers,
  desserts & other foods

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• Desserts • Polish cheesecakes • sernik na zimno z herbatnikami i galaretka

  Unbaked cheesecake with digestive biscuits bottom and jelly

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• Sauce • Old Polish tradition • staropolski sos z suszonych grzybow

  Old Polish dried mushroom sauce

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• Sauce • Old Polish tradition • staropolski sos ze swierzych grzybow

  Old Polish fresh mushroom sauce

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• Mushroom tastes • jajecznica z kurkami

  Scrambled eggs with chanterelle mushrooms

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• Vegetarian meal • Dessert • Polish tradition • knedle z makiem

  Knedle dumplings with poppy filling

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• Fruit soup • Dessert • Polish tradition • zupa wisniowa

  Morello cherry soup

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• Dessert • Polish tastes • sorbet rabarbarowy

  Rhubarb sorbet

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• Dessert • Vegetarian • Polish tradition • kluski z makiem

  Kluski z makiem - pasta with poppy

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• Dessert • Polish tastes • kanapki z bialym serem i dzemem

  Simple sweet curd cheese sandwiches

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Traditional Polish cuisine is very rich. Diversity and refinement is thanks to culinary traditions of people living side by side for centuries: Jews, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians and Ukrainians, as well as the influence of Russia, Germany, Czech Republic and Austria.

Within Polish food you can find specialties recognized around the world and Tasting Poland is here to let you know more about them and to find Polish recipes. Let me introduce some basic Polish menu by describing how typical Polish lunch looks like. So, traditionally Polish lunch/dinner, called in Polish 'obiad', is served at 2-3 p.m. in two portions. The first one is a Polish soup which usually is a:

• chicken soup (broth, with poultry or beef, served with pasta, sprinkled with plenty of greens - this one is called rosol in Poland),
• zurek (soup made from soured rye flour and meat, served with potatoes chopped into cubes, sausage, and hardboiled egg),
• red borsch (beet concoction, served with small dumplings with mushroom or bean stuffing - this is called uszka and is similar to Polish pierogi).
• Quite often at the Polish table, we can also find other popular soups, including a cabbage soup, barley soup, or tomato soup.

A culmination of the late lunch is the 'second course'. Actually, it is what we understand as a first course (or main) in English, but Poles call it the second (the soup goes first). Polish recipes for first courses are listed in a table above, while a short list of some popular food to serve:

• pork chops in a coating, served with potatoes and stewed cabbage (kotlet schabowy),
• roasted chicken with potatoes or fries + cucumber salad called mizeria,
• ground cutlet with potatoes and vegetables (kotlet mielony),
• some kind of Polish dumplings (I love it!:), like kopytka, pyzy, kluski slaskie covered with a meat sauce, most often goulash.
• Especially delicious and traditional Polish first courses are pierogi, golabki (cabbage rolls in tomato sauce) and bigos (Polish hunter's stew), but these recipes require more time to be prepared and therefore in many Polish families are not every-day, but rather a 'festive' meals.
• I should also mention that many Poles like to eat sweet dishes also for a dinner. A good to choose is for example nalesniki (Polish-style pancakes made from a very thin dough), knedle (dumplings stuffed with plums or poppy seeds), pierogi with a sweet curd cheese or noodles with fruit mousses. We publish Polish recipes also for these meals :)

Lunch usually ends with a dessert. In Poland they usually serve homemade cakes. Specialties worth a try are: yeast cake, rolls with poppy seeds and dried fruits, mazurkas, ciders, ginger cakes and delicious Polish cheesecakes. For those who like to enjoy a special, gourmet taste, we suggest to try Polish donuts (paczki) filled with a rose jam.

All Polish recipes here are written in a friendly way, so even people who usually do not like to cook, or who doesn't know how to cook, can easily prepare some Polish food. Most of the recipes is written for a family of four, but let's double or triple the amount of ingredients, and you get a recipe for a party.