Polish cuisine

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 Polish national cuisine shares some similarities with
other Central European and Eastern
European traditions as well as French and Italian
similarities. It is rich in meat, especially pork, chicken
and beef (depending on the region) and winter
vegetables (cabbage in the dish - bigos), and spices. It
is also characteristic in its use of various kinds
of noodles the most notable of which are kluski.
Eating habits
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We eat about five meals a day:
1. Breakfast
2. Second breakfast
3. Dinner
4. Dessert
5. Supper
Breakfast / Second breakfast / Supper
 Breakfast is eaten early in the morning and consists mainly of
sandwiches, scrambled eggs, some dairy products, and tea or coffee to
drink. Second breakfast usually contains sandwich, fruits and juice.
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Dinner:
 Dinner consists of two dishes: soup and the main
dish; dinner is mainly eaten between 3 and 5 o’clock.
First course – soups:
1. Broth
2. Tomato soup
3. Beet root soup
4. Sour rye meal mash
5. Mushroom soup
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Main dish:
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 Pork chop with potatoes
 Cabbage stuffed with rice
and meat (Polish name: pigeons)
 Silesian dumplings
with roulade and red cabbage
 Łazanki – noodles with cabbage
and mushrooms
 Bigos - dish made from
sausage, mushrooms and sauerkraut
Traditional food
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Pączki (doughnuts) and
faworki (angel wings)
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 They are inseparable part of Thursday before Ash
Wednesday (in Poland we call it fat Thursday).
Faworki are traditional sweet
crisp pastry made out of dough
Oscypek
is smoked cheese made of salted sheep milk
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Oscypek is typical for Polish mountains. What tastes best
in winter is grilled oscypek with cranberry.
Pierogi
are dumplings with different kinds of fillings: white cheese or
fruits or meat or cabbage with mushrooms.
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Kluski na parze
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 Eaten with different filling than traditional steamed
dumplings characteristic for Asian regions i. e. marmalade
and topped with fruit sauce (blueberry, strawberry etc.)
Herrings
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 Raw: in oil, in sour cream, pickled, with different
sauces, with vegetables…
Croquettes
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 Baked pancakes with various kinds of stuffing: sauerkraut and
mushrooms, minced meat, minced meat and sauerkraut,
minced meat and mushrooms etc.
 Eaten solo or with beet root soup
Venison
(rabbit, roe deer, boar, deer etc.)
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 Venison may be eaten as steaks, tournedos, roasts,
sausages, jerky and minced meat. It has a flavor
reminiscent of beef, but is richer