Pierogi – dumpling / ravioli / empanadas

-          Savoury with meats, potatos, cabbage, mushrooms etc

-          Sweet with fruits and sweetened sour cream

Bigos (Hunter’s Stew)

-          Sauerkraut, fresh cabbage and a variation of meats in a soup

Cabbage rolls - gołąbki

-          Cabbage leaves filled with pork mince and rice

-          Served with a tomato or mushroom cream sauce

-          A vegetarian version of this is eaten as one of the 12 dishes on Christmas eve

Potato pancakes (rosti) – called Placki Ziemniaczane

Served dippin in applesauce and sour cream,

Red Borscht (Barszcz Czerwony) -

-          Beetroot soup

-          Served on Christmas eve

-          Often served with mini periogi (Uszka)

-          krokiety (rolled crepes that are filled with shredded meat and coated in breadcrumbs).

Open-Faced Sandwiches (Zapiekanki)

-          polish Gyros – the late night, before bed and after drinks meal

cucumber salad

Soured Rye Flour Soup (Żurek)

-          soup served in a cob loaf

Polish Sausage (Kiełbasa)

Kabanosy – like a kabana sausage, but dried, often smoked

Pierniki – polish ginger bread cookies

Jam donuts

Poppy seed cake

Naleśniki  - crepes

-          can be sweet or savoury,

-          savoury version can be rolled in bread crumbs and fried and turned into a croquette of sorts

rosol (ruh-soo) – fresh chicken noodle soup

stuffed cabbage – Gołąbki – filled with rice, onions and ground meats

Salatka Jarzynowa (like Russian salad) (grounds vegies + egg + peas + potatoes+Pickle + Apple

Szarlotka – polish apple cake / pie

Kompot – homemade fruit juice

Kopytka – potato dumplings - like gnocci (but like the german one)

Pickle soup

Oscypek – smoked sheeps cheese

Tripe – flaki is a triple soup

Sernik – polish cheesecake

Beer with cordial -raspberry and ginger

Bread knotted ring

Vodka