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In fact, the number of dishes in Poland is terrifying. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of them. The same dishes will taste different in different regions and will be prepared slightly differently. Soups. It's a very Polish thing. But they are made much differently than in other countries. In Poland, such purees are called "creams". The soup contains broth, meat and vegetables, sometimes fruits, mushrooms, etc. And it will be called soup. Cucumber soup is tasty and tourists themselves try it, not believing that they can be used to make soup. Red borscht will also be available in 20 types of flavors. But I recommend going all the way and trying something more exotic, such as sorrel soup or tripe soup. That's deeper than you've gone before. Polish cuisine has everything - dishes are based on potatoes, noodles, rice, groats, etc. Take action, good luck.

51:32 In poland when we want to complement a dessert we say „dobre, nie za słodkie” which means „good, not too sweet” 😂

In Poland, there was a tradition of not wasting food. It was said that a Pole would pick up pieces of bread from the floor, kiss it and eat it. Poverty taught us this, and unfortunately today we are just like others. The broth from which tomato soup is made is normal. The meat from the broth was often used to make stuffing for dumplings. Nothing could go to waste.

cucumber soup is made from chopped pickled cucumber

Poland is not as vegetarian as you think. Good bigos is full of all types of meat and sausage and these give cabbage and sauerkraut their flavor. Classic gołąbki are stuffed with rice and minced meat. You might not see meat in a number of Polish dishes but a lot of them are meat stock based or meat is used as a flavor enhancer to vegetables(like fried bacon added to red cabbage).

Pomidorowa,...królowa polskich zup🤩.Pozdrawiam was

Gołąbki usually are stuffed with meat however there are versions of them that have mushrooms instead of meat.

Yes, people mix vodka with some juice like orange, they call it a drink. Some people use 2 glasses, first for vodka shot, the secong one, bigger - for juice or coca cola. I have never seen anybody mixing vodka with kompot.

We already had one World Wide War started in Poland. Please dont ask which region has best Bigos recipe. We dont need another World Bigos War started here :)

Maybe I would be able to arrange something if you come to Gdańsk. Fun Fact: The best food is not actually in the main cities but in the countryside restaurants. They have the highest quality food. Sometimes 1:1 to home cooked meals or better.

FLACH-KEY or FLA-KEY - traditional Polish tripe soup. Not for the faint-hearted, but easily one of the best around ;)

There is a saying in poland that if you can make chicken broth then you can make all soups. Not bc broth is hard to make. But bc many polish soups are just chicken broth with one additional ingriedient. For example tomato soup is just broth with addition of tomato concentrate. One of those soups can be "szczawiowa". This is a soup made with the addition of common sorrel. I don't think you would have the opportunity to run around the fields and pick these weeds, but sometimes you can buy this plant in stores (at least in Poland). It is very sour, similar to sour rye soup. And also often served with eggs. About potato pancakes. Those german darker ones arent german at all. Those are i think jewish. And you can also eat that in poland and lot of people call this "different potato pancakes" but they have their own name. Its Latka. It is easy to be wege in poland. But its not like poland has lot of wegetarian cousine. When you ask Chat gpt about traditional polish wegetarian food half of the list is not wege at all. It just can be served in castrated version. You can do a chicken broth with wegetarian cubes of sadness. But there is a cost. Like taste, dignity, and 1000 years of polish history going to waste disposal. Gołąbki should have meat inside.

At the beginning she said "shtetl" which was a type of small town with jewish majority.

Ziomale! Słyszeliście ich! Zapraszać, gotować, rozkoszować się jedzeniem i opowiadać o nim! Będziecie sławni i przyczynicie się do rozsławiania polskiej kuchni na świecie! Wierzę w Was! :)

You need to taste Traditional Silesian Cuisine (ex. kluski śląskie, rolada i modro kapusta) in for example Katowice or whatever other multiple cities in Silesia metropoly south region!

Tyle Bigosow ile Kucharek!

Many Polish soups are based on a "rosół", which is just a meat and vegetable broth. Such base has wegetable soup, tomato soup, pickled cucumber soup, sourkraut soup, lemon soup, any kind of mushroom soup, green bean soup and many more... Soups not based on a broth are: zalewajka, zarzucajka, żur, żurek, barszcz white or red. About being vegetarian in Poland is not easy, we have delicious sausages, which we put almost into every dish, for example bigos (sourcraut gulash-stew) contains meat and sausage. Gołąbki also are made with rice and minced meat, rolled in cabbage. But yes, we also have some traditional, vegetarian dishes, very often for a sweet tooth person. Mizeria is a sliced, fresh cucumber, with a sour cream/or Greek yogurt if you prefer, fresh chopped dill, a bit of: lemon juice, pepper, salt, and sugar (and sweet paprika - optionally). Mily(?), what a beautiful, four-paws lady! Welcome to our big RU-vid family!

savory ,savory and savory again. with beef stew all over it ,yummy

Cucumber soup is made from grated pickled cucumbers. Therefore, it does not have a mushy consistency. Meat stock, potatoes, carrots, parsley, celery. Only at the very end do we add pickled cucumbers. Yummmmm.....

I'm watching people visiting Poland and trying/reacting to Polish stuff when I feel nostalgic. In the UK there's no problem with buying most Polish foods but it's harder to get fruits and vegetables from Poland

Regular family dinner in Poland traditionally consisted of two course dishes. First was the soup, then the main course. IMO rich soup tradition in Poland is connected with harsh winter weather conditions and soups are great in warming up.

14-18 August - Pierogi Festival in Kraków. If you want to try EVERY combination it is event for you.

cucumber soup is great if you like sour food. If you do, definitely try it. Also some insight on your favourite barszcz. It's a classic polish dish for christmass eve but then we call it barszcz z uszkami (barszcz with ears). The "ears" are actually small dough dumplings with mushrooms in it (think pierogi but smaller and thinner). So those are swimming in barszcz. Some restaurants in Poland should have them. Try it next time you're here.

Before the war, there were a lot of Jews living in Poland. They often constituted the majority in small Polish towns, especially in the east of the country. Small towns with a Jewish population where they often constituted the majority of the inhabitants were called by them STETL. This name is from jidish.

Poland is country of soups and potato. I'm myself very good at cooking tomato soup, red borsch but I personally love the version bleached with sour cream, potatoes and garnished with fried onion, cucumber soup, krupnik, grochówka, kapuśniak and chłodnik. And potatos pancakes are actually my masterpiece. Would you ever visit Warsaw I'll ba happy to prepare it for you. I believe you should next travel to Gdansk. You'll be amazed by Gdansk exactly like by Wroclaw. And goląbki might be vegetarian but are usually stuffed with minced meat.

Traditional cabbage rolls are stuffed with rice and meat. The stuffing is wrapped in a cabbage leaf, if the cabbage has a thick middle part, it is cut so that it is soft and edible during heat treatment in the oven. It is kept in the oven for about 4 hours so that everything is soft. In my opinion, the most important thing is the tomato sauce, if you make it, the whole thing will taste better. They are best eaten the next day, when everything has rested and is ready, you can pour fat with smoked onion. And as for the spoon, it was a wooden spoon for show, to add an old Polish touch, when in the villages people only ate with wooden spoons.

Nie ma czegoś takiego jak najlepszy BIDŻIS. W każdym domu, dla nas jest najlepszy

Basic recipe for cucumber soup: Make a broth. Meat based with few potatoes. Grate few sour pickled cucumbers. Many serve it with a spoon of a cream. Salt and pepper as favoured.

When it comes to bigos, only the home-made or from a good restaurant, because the ones from cheap bars are a pure lottery and you can easily find bigos made almost exclusively from cabbage or one with the addition of stale meat or sausage. Moreover, it is a dish that is perfect for winter or cold days. Personally, bigos is not my favorite dish.

If you went to Gdańsk, you could also see Sopot - these cities are close to each other and worth seeing

Zapraszamy do Poznania😊

Soups are also matter of climat. There is nothing better than hot soup in winter after coming back home, or cold soup in summer. Not only traditional "chłodnik" made on kind of youghurt, but also cold fuit soups (however many people don't like them)

Warszawa is one of the most vegetarian restaurant friendly cities on earth

'Shtetel' is a Yiddish name for a town (usually with mostly Jewish inhabitants), Shtetels were typical for Middle and Eastern Europe where the Ashkenazi Jews were living

The funny thing we do with kompot is something that might be giving Italians a heart attack (it sure raises a couple eyebrows among my international friends). Basically we boil a pot of pasta or any type of noodles and then pour kompot on it, usually with fruit chunks, to make a kind of a fruity soup. Sounds baffling but it's still my go-for option in the summer when it's too hot to even think about eating anything warm for lunch.

You should make your own kompot, it's pretty Simple. Just take some fruits, cut them, trow to the pot and boil for 1,5-2h. That's it😅. And you can use any of fruits

We miss everything. There is nothing like coming back for holidays and eat everything you're mom cook's. 🤤

TY for recomend polish food TY

Classic gołąbki are stuffed with rice and minced meat)

Potato pancakes always salty and it is it)

With your personal experience comments it comes to my my mind u are the best ambasador of polish cuisine, as a Pole really appreciate that guys❤

Drinking warm vodka (in room temperature) is a crime. It has to be cold, but not frozen. Period.

You can also add other Polish cities to your list, as they are all beautiful. I suggest seeing our Tri-city (Gdańsk, Sopot, Gdynia), Warsaw (the capital of Poland), Kraków (the previous capital of Poland), Zakopane (the capital of the Polish mountains), Poznań, Lublin, Łodź, Rzeszów, Kielce, Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Zamość, Katowice, Białystok, Przemyśl, Zielona Góa, Jelenia Góra, Świdnica, Kazimierz Dolny nad Wisłą, Olsztyn, Przemyśl, Sanok, Łańcut, Sandomierz, Opole, Leżajsk, Stary Sącz, Kłodzko, Bielsko-Biała, Tarnów, Biecz etc. We also have many beautiful natural areas: the Słowiński National Park with moving dunes in Łeba, the Białowieża National Park with European bisons, and the Bieszczady Mountains.

I prefer potato pancakes with sour cream. But also with mushroom sauce.

Doggy!!! :D Such a cutie!

for a hot summer days you will probably need cold drink made of apple juice with a mint on ice

I suggest ŚWIDNICA to visit next, a beautiful church of peace there.

15:26, 45;17 No, no "pushkey". It is "poncheck" (1) and more are "ponchkey" 😅

I live in Ireland, all tho i'm coming back, after 18 years. What keeps me going is a number of polish shops. Plenty of them in UK too.

Savory. I have never, until now, heard of anyone who makes potato pancakes sweet. There is another dish called "Racuchy" which is similar, but sweet, but it has nothing to do with potatoes.

Ther's 2 types of bigos :1 from suerkraut bigos and secend is made in summer time from fresch cabbage

Thank you for promoting Poland. I am Polish and I love to watch foreigners discover my country. I am very happy that you like Polish cuisine. I would like to share with you some information about the cuisine. Polish cuisine is the cuisine of poor people. We have very few dishes made of expensive meat, but we make good use of basic ingredients. One such dish is kaszanka ( pig's blood with buckwheat groats ), it looks like a sausage only it's black. It tastes great when grilled. Another dish is ozorki (hog's tongue in horseradish sauce). Another controversial dish is liver with onions. I personally love it. You should also know that each region (voivodship capital) of Poland has its own regional dish or snack, such as Krakow - obwarzanek (pretzel or bagel), Lublin - cebulk (yeast dough with fried onion on top), Poznań - rogal świętomarciński (croissant with poppy seeds and nuts), Toruń - Gingerbread, Szczecin - paszteciki szczecińskie (fried yeast dough with meat filling), Katowice - rolada with red cabbage and noodles, Zakopane - kwaśnica (a dish of sauerkraut with pork rutabaga) and oscypek (smoked sheep or cow cheese with cranberry jam). I also watched your expedition from Wroclaw and it lists dishes that weren't in those films: 1. cucumber soup (soup made from fermented cucumbers) 2. vegetable soup, the second soup after tomato soup, usually made from Sunday broth. 3. vegetable salad is a salad of cooked vegetables for broth with hard yak, mayonnaise and mustard. The taste is ok, nothing specayal, but the test is a very traditional dish. 4. pea soup something like an English breakfast but with meat and bacon and sausage. Very good soup 5. krupnik soup with pearl groats 6. Krokiety, a very traditional dish almost like pierogi. They can be stuffed with meat, cabbage and mushrooms or the student version - wieners with cheese. Desserts. Poland is not only about donuts. Kołacze are also very popular (a sweet buttery bun with sweet cottage cheese on top). Drożdzówki, the same roll but with fruit fillings ( the most popular are blueberries, strawberries and apple). Popular cakes (I'll just give the names) sernik, szlotka - jabłecznik, kremówka, wuzetka, karpatka. My childhood flavour is kisel. It's hard to describe what it is, basically a boiled compote thickened with potato flour. I wish you a pleasant experience in further exploring Poland PS: Unfortunately these days locals eat a lot of kebabs ( which are much worse than the German or Turkish ones)

In the summer time U need to visit west coast - Kołobrzeg, Świnoujście, Międzyzdroje, etc. Its georgeus guys. Thanks for the video, hope U will upload something soon.

thank you

6:48 Regarding cucumber soup it's more like pickle soup, pickles are a cucumbers that were preserved in vinegar and other stuff also pickled dills available abroad is very different than what we have in Poland. Also worth notice that depending on fermentation time those tastes different (aka małosolne vs kiszone). Anyways it's a little bit sour and have this polish pickle flavour, but it's quite good.

27.07-18.08 there is the Jarmark Dominikański (The Saint Dominic's Fair) in Gdańsk which is one of the biggest fair in Europe

Greetings from Kraków:)

I'll surprise you on the subject of potato pancakes - my favorite version is pancakes with just salt. When the pancake mass (potatoes, onion, egg, flour) is in the right proportions, you don't need anything more than a pinch of salt after frying. Potato pancakes are one of my most favorite dishes, so I can eat them with anything (sweet, with goulash, with mushroom sauce), but when they are made of really good potatoes, the version with just salt is my favorite.

You have to try tripe soup - if you’re brave enough. Easily one of the best Polish soups.

About making Tomato soup: There is a skit-song made by group called Letni Chamski Podryw (Rude Summer Pick up - i guess) called Pomidorowa (type Letni - Pomidorowa and you'll find it). It really show the attitude of some Poles towards re-making chicken soup into pomidorowa. At this point in my house Rosół is base for everything, so you make it into pickled cucumber soup, barszcz, krupnik... It's like this soup-ception, when you can make potato soup from rosół, and if you don't want the mild potato soup you make it into barszcz. it's wild but as skit shows, there is dark side to it ;)

Eating anything from hollow loaf of bread is not what we do and we never did it before. Tbh it is completely new invention for idiots from abroad.

Silesia has the best cuisine in Poland. PS nie zapraszam do dyskusji bo nie ma o czym ;)

Krakow and Malopolska region is very traditional in all dimensions. As capitol of Polish Kingdom it offers you great architecture, culture, Wieliczka mine. You'll also find a lot of traditional dishes based on old recipes and excellent quality ingredients. One of the most extreme is tripe soup. Try it in a good restaurant - it's like durian, once you try it becomes your favourite soup forever 😊

This bigos just from colour i can say it lacks smoked plums and wild mushrooms.

Hello, I have a cookbook at home titled - 1000 potato dishes, I recommend it BABKĘ ZIEMNIAZANĄ.

5:25 This is so natural, that 1st day you have chicken soup (stock,etc.), then next day is"pomidorowa" tomato soup. But, if you have chicken stock, you can do any soup, or sauce/ gravy/stew, but this is higher engineering 😉😜, for many people

You should try white barszcz, it is similar to żurek but a little bit milder. Try it with white cheese(?cottage cheese?, but not the one in small balls, but the one in one, large piece, crumbled) and boild eggs. 🤤🥔 and by the way we, poles, have at least 50/50 ratio of blood/potato starch circulating in our veins😂🥔

@3:00 The girl in the video you are watching is apparently a descendant of Polish Jews, and the Jews in Poland, most of whom did not assimilate with the rest of society, lived isolating themselves in their own settlements. They called these settlements in their language: "Shtetl".

Vege bigos would taste totaly different, we do it sometimes just cooking sour cream with spices, but bigos need to be fat, the fat transmits all the tastes, need to have multiple smoked meat and sausage/bacon. Best with wild animal meat z 'dziczyzna' Kompot not best to flush vodka, it's very wattery

I have no idea what is "shtatel". Tomato soup is a chicken broth with tomato pure and cream and it is served with pasta or rice. Pancakes with cottage cheese are actually crepes filled with sweet cottage cheese, but also can be served with fruits or meat filling or simply jam.

No, after joining EU the majority of Poles haven't moved to UK or abroad at all. The majority stayed in Poland. Regarding bigos, if you have a chance try it with aslice of home made out of hare pate. My grandma served with 1cm sliced cold piece together with hot bigos. Gołąbki, also know in the US by the name golabki, are the best made with savoy instead of white cabbage. Savoy cabbage is more delicate. And yes, more traditional stuffing is made with meat and rice although my mother used pure meat. Pyzy definitely need to be accompanied by gravy, either mada with wild mushrooms or beef one.

A visit to Krakow is a must for many reasons. I will mention the historical one. Krakow was the capital of Poland for several centuries. It is not impossible that it still is in the legal sense. It is said that King Sigismund III Vasa moved the capital to Warsaw. However, this is not true. The king moved his court to Warsaw, but never issued a legal act establishing Warsaw as the capital of Poland. In documents, Warsaw was clearly referred to as the "Residential City of His Majesty King of Poland", not as the capital. Postscript It is a fairly well-known fact that Krakow is home to Europe's largest Gothic market square. On the other hand, few know that Krakow is also home to Europe's largest urban pasture, namely Błonia.

7:04 cucumber soup is of sour gherkins ;)

Hi there! Podlasie od great for the road trip. Regard the invitation as "open" so visit at your convenience)

Linden when I am currently leaving is full of polish shops and restaurants😊

z cukrem i śmietaną najlepsze :) placki ziemniaczane

In poland we mix vodka with orher things, like beer, and other, but never with kompot, its will change to fruit wine in tarte. The most autentic hunter stew you can eat only after hunting, at the end a Group of hunter make the Best hunter stew what you can eat ever. If you want eat something like home food probably milk bar would be most in that się, restourant make more fancy food ;)

Why you r watching food ? I am starwing. Time for dinner. By the way nice/cute dog 🙂

Sugar and honey on a potato pancake? What?! I'm calling the police, that woman is insane.

31:30 No no no. We're mixing vodka with everything and making many coctails and drinks with vodka. From juicess, sodas, red bull etc. to tomato juice or even beer (its called u-boot drink - sink small glass of vodka into big glass of beer).

I live in UK and we've got many Polish shops around so it's quite easy to get some products you would miss otherwise. There are also 'world food' isles in big supermarkets with some Polish food as well. However I do miss good quality bread, seasonal fruit, potatoes (just taste different, especially baby potatoes- only in June). Good fruit grown in the season only - of course there is plenty in UK, all year round, but they all taste a bit bland. In Poland you could always get some natural, sweet juicy fruit from local people, only in the season. I miss forrest blueberrys, apples straight from the garden, raspebrries, currants: black, red and white, cherries, sour cherries, gooseberries - all cheap, delicious and just growing almost everywhere 😉. I cook at home but I like different foods from all over the world so UK is actually a very good place to try any nation's cousine.

Well, you could be a veggie, though the polish put some meat in it, because... why not? meat is very good for your health (seriously)

I prefer salty dishes. Drinks containing sweet juices are popular in Poland. But we have many types of vodka in Poland, e.g. "spirytus lubelski" (99% alcohol). In my opinion, the best one is mixed with orange juice in a 1:1 ratio, remembering to scrape off the orange peel, add the peels to the mixture and leave for a week of aging. you can also use it with chokeberry and elderberry. We call such a mixture a "tincture" and, depending on your preferences, it has 40-60%. another example is moonshine. Moonshine is not so much a tradition, but drinking it with juices containing acids ends badly the next day. We eat moonshine (60%-99%) with fatty meat. we start drinking after we have eaten something. not on an empty stomach. An empty stomach and thirst will make you lose touch with reality after 3 glasses, and the 3rd glass should be a warm-up. After warming up with fatty meat and 3 glasses, it is often preferred to eat a small raw piece of herring in oil with vegetables. The culture of drinking alcohol varies depending on the region. It is not only a drinking tradition but many generations of experience. and the concept is that after drinks there is a hangover. and after drinking vodka or moonshine, you won't have a hangover. The last thing is the documented fact that the world record holders in the amount of permille are Poles. No Russians because I don't have exact data from them, but it's possible that they are at the same level. The Pole had 14.8 permille of alcohol in the blood, recorded by Tadeusz S., but it is not as they think in Europe, e.g. the inscription on Danish vodka: "Lethal dose - 4.5 permille of alcohol in the blood! Does not apply to Poles and Russians." it's about how to consume vodka. They have a similar one in Russia. And probably similar records. So, for example, a 100 kg man can drink one liter of vodka in the right way and feel as if I had drunk 7 drinks with citrus juice. The difference is that drinks will make my head explode in the morning, but not vodka.

You have to know the combinations of all this things sour sweet berrys all natural you can not seperate the freid onion on top the souses the veggie all important the mix when on one fork you have to bite a bit of everything put to your mouth then you know and it is diffrent on the regions same dish is not the same any more

Question: what is your type of flavour? Sour, salty or sweet?

Cześć, when you will be in Kraków and you want to eat real Polish food, let me know. I live 80 km away from Kraków, near Auschwitz (must see list!) My Mother serves the best polish food 🥹 she says I tell that because I am her daughter, but this is not true. You can't tell that you don't like e.g. żurek, if you didn't try it from Irenka ☺️ Near my place you have a lot things to do: you can see european bisons in the forest, you can visit palace in Pszczyna, more beautiful than Versal, you can visit old mines of silver, brewery etc... Do zobaczenia! 😃

secret its in flour and hearth when You cooking

I've never heard of the potato pancakes with honey 🤯😱

Stetl was usually a small town/village in Eastern Poland before II WW inhabited by a large Jewish community. Poland of course during this time was shifted much further to the east and contained large parts of today's Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania. Stetls are no more due to what happened in Poland during the war. The lady is most likely a descendant of someone who used to live in Eastern Poland and emmigrated to the States before the war.

Bigos is like a pizza every family makes it a little different. And traditionally it would take 3-5 days of boiling to make it. (I dislike bigos with plums)

1:39 If you want to go mushroom picking then be sure to do it with someone from Poland. Each of you has only one liver. I am not saying that every poisonous mushroom picked in Polish forests will make you need a liver transplant, because eating some will result in milder or stronger food poisoning, but there are cases of fatal mushroom poisoning in Poland every year.

If you choose Kraków one of the must see is Wieliczka salt main.

If you will be in the area of Gdansk in the north of Poland, I invite you to home dinners, we will cook everything you want to try

Replace sugar for jam of your choice. Much better and healthier.

You must try cucumber soup. The sour flavor from pickled cucumbers is amazing :D

zupy barszcze ( Biały, Czerwony, Szczawiowy, ukraiński z botwiny, Żurek) rosół pomidorowa ( z ryżem lub makaronem) kapuśniak ( szczawnica w górach) Mocniejsza - na kaca dobra 🙂 ogórkowa krupnik grzybowa chłodniki różnorakie pozdrawiam 🙂

Yeah, we got lots of vegetarian food. In Warsaw its over 50 vege restaurants and few houndred with vegetarian food in the menu

May I give you a friendly advice? In Poland, a person never eats a table with his, not her, head covering. It is extremely impolite and triggers people at instant. The reason comes from years back when starvation was rampant and a real meal was a celebration of food.. If you had the chance to be invited to a private home and sit a the table with had on your head, you would be politely advised to take it off. I live in one of the North American countries and can not stand men having their meals with those baseball hats on. Sometimes I wonder if they sleep with them as well.

Be carefull with Pyzy. In Silesia region Pyzy are something absolutely different than in Wielkopolska. Traditional Poznań or Wielkopolska region dish - duck with pyzy and red cabbage will include another pyzy than you saw in this video, and you have to try it, when you'll be visiting Poznań.