Lenten Cabbage with Mushrooms
Kapusta postna Lenten cabbage with mushrooms is in Poland usually served on Christmas Eve, but it is also popular dish during Lent. Healthy, sour – enjoy!
Kapusta postna Lenten cabbage with mushrooms is in Poland usually served on Christmas Eve, but it is also popular dish during Lent. Healthy, sour – enjoy!
Byczki Sweet Sauerkraut Soup is not a popular soup in Poland nowadays, but this is a soup my Grandma was cooking years ago. Her roots were in Eastern Poland, she was born on the area, which after a II Worlds War has become a Belarus territory. The taste is sweet and sour, one of my
Minced Meat Cutlets Polish Kotlety Mielone could be called meat balls, but in Poland we make them more oval and flat compared to a ball:) Some may call them Polish hamburgers, but we usually made them with pork while I associate hamburgers mainly with beef. In Polish cuisine they are a staple for family dinner,
Bitki wieprzowe I make Stewed Pork Chops every couple of weeks, each time I don’t have time or just not feel like cooking each day. I make a bulk portion of simmer pork chops and my family is happy with it, specially when I serve it with Kopytka – diagonal shaped potato dumplings. The other
Baked beetroot cream soup is one of my favorite soups from childhood. Made from baked beets with caramelized onion, naturally sweat – this is what comfort food means to me:)
There is just few steps from chicken soup to Krupnik. If you are cooking broth – you can change your mind almost anytime, add barley and potatoes and here it is- Krupnik – chicken soup with barley:). It is ‘all in one’ kind of soup, nutritious, hearty, warming and healthy. If you add millet instead
Rosół drobiowy What about a rich broth made of poultry for Sunday dinner? Polish Broth – Rosół drobiowy is the most popular choice in Polish families:) Rosół is one of the most iconic of Polish comfort foods and Polish foods at all. Check my recipe to get clear, full of flavor and aromatic Rosół, just
Placki ziemniaczane, placki kartoflane, plendze, plindze, latkes, plińce Polish cuisine is full of potatoes dishes. It is a cheap vegetable and can be easily stored during winter. In old times it was a poor food, easy to grow, easy to cook and easy to fill the stomach.The old Polish cook book gives a simple recipe
Polish Żurek is a soup traditionally prepared for Easter. In some Polish families White Borsch is cooked instead of Żurek, the difference is Kvas/ starter that is used. For Żurek- rye starter, for Borsch – wheat kvas. If you plan to cook traditional Polish Sour Soup Żurek, you need a rye starter. You can buy
Zakwas na żurek Kvas is a basic ingredient of Żurek, traditional Polish soup, prepared for Easter. It can be also called: kvas or rye sour soup starter, and is made by fermenting rye (for Żurek) or wheat (for White Borsch) flour. The process is easy, although you need a few days to have your own
Zakwas na Barszcz If you plan to cook natural, healthy and delicious Polish beets Borscht, for example for Polish traditional Christmas Eve, you need to prepare beets kvas/ leaven for borscht few days before. Kvas is actually a water from fermented beets. From this amounts of ingredients you will get about 2 portions od kvas