Polish cuisine plays a huge role in Polish culture and tradition. Main ingredients include cabbage, sausage, mushrooms, and potatoes. Popular dishes include pierogi (dumplings), kluski Śląskie (noodles), and various meat dishes like pork chops. Bigos, a hunter's stew made with sauerkraut, meats and vegetables, is a classic Polish dish known for its intensifying flavor. Soups also feature prominently in Polish cuisine.

1. POLISH CUISINE
Polish cuisine is one of the oldest in
Europe. It plays a huge role of Polish
culture and tradition. The recipes
are based mainly on products such
as: cabbage, sausage, mushrooms
and potatoes.
Pierogi are boiled dumplings stuffed
with varying ingredients. After Kluski śląskie (Silesian dumplings) are
they are boiled, they are fried with small circular noodles with a small hole or
butter and finely chopped onions. dimple in the middle made of mashed
They can be filled with potato and potatoes and potato flour.
cheese, mushrooms, and even fruit.
Meat is an important part of the
Polish diet. Pork is the most popular
meat, and the most commonly
eaten meat dish is a fried, breaded
pork chop. Beef, ham, and sausage
Prepared by the studnets from Anna Vasa School, Poland
Pictures: the students: Ania, Julia, Magda, Ania, Rafał, Aleksy
are also eaten regularly.
and the teacher: Małgorzata Garkowska

2. TYPICAL POLISH DISHES
A pork-chop, in Polish schabowy. It We have got plenty of soups. Poland is
Bigos is a traditional Polish is pork that was hammered first, yes we a country of soups. The best known
hunter's stew have special hammers for meat. Then it are: rosół – chicken soup, tomato
is breaded and baked. It is the most soup, white borsch served with
popular meat Poles eat. potatoes or sausages or eggs, red
borsch, in other words beet root soup.
Typically, bigos includes
sauerkraut, various meats and
sausages, tomatoes and Other famous Polish dishes are
mushrooms. For meats, you can gołąbki - cabbage leaves stuffed with
have bacon, beef, pork, ham minced meat and rice.
or veal. Bigos is considered
a "perpetual stew" which means
It can be kept in a pot for a week
or more. The taste of this stew
actually intesifies when reheated.