Dated a Polish guy in my early 20's and always loved this salad when visiting his parents place. This is the closest recipe I've found to theirs. Thank you!
My Babci never wrote anything down because she didn’t write well and everything was in her head. She wasn’t even very good at letting her girls help. Fortunately my mother (her daughter) started insisting that she be shown and would go over and watch, and write down the recipes. I think Babci liked being the only one who knew sometimes, although she was better at showing me, her granddaughter. My mother has given all of us her recipes. She has one recipe for piróg which was from my Babci’s region near Lublin. It is a baked dough filled with buckwheat and other ingredients. Not sweet, more savory. My sisters and I have been asking our mom to show us how make that! I like the work “pickley”! Looks wonderful!
I think this is true for many of us. I’m glad you can recreate some of those recipes. I have a recipe for buckwheat pierogi filling, maybe it’s similar to your grandma’s. It’s published on my website (polishyourkitchen.com -> RECIPES -> PIEROGI AND DUMPLINGS). I bet it’s a pizza like dough filled with this filling. 😊
Dated a Polish lady in my hometown of Glasgow Scotland and became interested in everything Polish..Food,culture and history,will have a go at making this salad. Have also visited Gdansk twice and Krakow,hope to visit Poland again soon.
When we made this mom added in some of the pickle brine if it was too thick and needed to be loosened up a little (without adding more mayo). Very good!
Very good recipe. I feel like the pickles in the brine are what makes this salad. There are items here and there that are nice to have but not as necessary but pickles in brine as very helpful. Highly recommend that piece. Also, I'm happy you mentioned the sour cream. I'm a big fan of adding high quality mayo, sour cream, and spicy mustard. Spicy mustard is the secret ingredient (Specifically Gulden's if available). So good.
I haven't had this salad in 16 years, since I divorced my Polish wife and have craved it ever since. Funny when you said you had a trick to dicing the veggies I knew you were going to pull out an egg slicer lol. Thank you for showing us how easy this sslad is to make.
I love this! Never heard of this salad before, probably because my Daddy was a big meat eater. As an adult now, and a vegetarian, this sounds and looks so good! Also easy to make! Love, love, love your videos!
This is something my mom likes to make for Xmas Eve dinner to go with the fish. I would love to see a traditional Christmas Eve seafood dinner you do as a polish catholic- (if applicable of course) Seems like no one is around anymore to pass on tradition so that’s why I ask you. You seem to be right on point with all your recipes! Loyal fan either way! Love and light always ❤Smatchnego!
Hi Annya, I had a plan to do a Christmas Cook-along showing all the dishes we make for Christmas, but we all fell ill, so we had to cancel. I do make all the traditional fish dishes, and I have recipes for all of the them polishyourkitchen.com. Thanks for watching!
my ex mother in law showed me how to make this (and bigos). I now make it for family in USA - because of all the chopping work, I can't get anyone else to make this - but at gatherings they all want this as my bring a dish to the party 🤣🤣🤣
Yummy! I just can’t do the parsnip (something about that flavor) but I love rutabaga. And I have all the ingredients, amazing enough, to make this salad today. That and your amazing little beet salad. ❤️
I make this, glad you didn't have peas, lol, I do not like peas. A restaurant near me uses peas - Simply Pierogi, but that's okay, everything else is good!!
Ahhh Adzia, that looks lovely! I'll give it a try sometime soon. And indeed, c ook me to think of it: I did sometimes wonder how meticulously fine yout salads were chopped 😊
