Prepared by the studnets from Anna Vasa School, Poland

Pictures: the students: Ania, Julia, Magda, Ania, Rafał, Aleksy

and the teacher: Małgorzata Garkowska

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

are also eaten regularly.

Pierogi are boiled dumplings stuffed

with varying ingredients. After

they are boiled, they are fried with

butter and finely chopped onions.

They can be filled with potato and

cheese, mushrooms, and even fruit.

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.

Kluski śląskie (Silesian dumplings) are

small circular noodles with a small hole or

dimple in the middle made of mashed

potatoes and potato flour.

A pork-chop, in Polish schabowy. It

is pork that was hammered first, yes we

have special hammers for meat. Then it

is breaded and baked. It is the most

popular meat Poles eat.

T Y P I C A L P O L I S H D I S H E S

Other famous Polish dishes are

gołąbki - cabbage leaves stuffed with

minced meat and rice.

Typically, bigos includes

sauerkraut, various meats and

sausages, tomatoes and

mushrooms. For meats, you can

have bacon, beef, pork, ham

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.

Bigos is a traditional Polish

hunter's stew

We have got plenty of soups. Poland is

a country of soups. The best known

are: rosół – chicken soup, tomato

soup, white borsch served with

potatoes or sausages or eggs, red

borsch, in other words beet root soup.