Recipes From Cuisine: Polish
Polish Style Minced Pork Patties – Kotlete Mielone
My mother used to serve these patties regularly in our household, together with a creamy mashed potatoes and a side dish of cooked beetroots. I love this combination and cook it whenever I feel «homesick»! In my recipe, I have added a sauce done with dried porcini mushrooms (fresh mushrooms ...
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Polish Beetroot Soup – Barszcz (more commonly known as Borscht)
This is a favourite soup of my childhood. As a child I did not like soups except for this sweet, sour and bright red beet soup. There are more then one recipes for this soup. The one that my mother usually cooked included meat, bones, cabbage, carrots, leeks, parsley, celery, ...
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Mizeria – A Polish Radish & Cucumber Salad
This salad is done with cucumbers only or with both cucumbers and radishes. It’s very popular throughout Poland! This fresh, crunchy, peppery, creamy and delicious salad is a good accompaniment to any meat, poultry or fish dish. Most of all it is very quick to prepare!
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Sautéed Mushrooms (Grzyby Smazone)
In Poland, almost everyone loves foraging for wild mushrooms when in season. Although I never lived in Poland, the love of mushroom’s hunting has been passed to me by my Polish parents! For this recipe, I have not been able to find any wild mushrooms so I used shop bought ...
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Bigos
This is my version of this famous Polish stew. My mother used to cook it the traditional way, using both sauerkraut (fermented cabbage) and fresh white cabbage, carrots and dried wild mushrooms. The original recipe Includes also the use of various kinds of meat (pork, beef, chicken, duck, turkey, charcuterie…) ...
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