POLISH CUISINE

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POLISH CUISINE
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Stereotypes about polish cuisine

• Polish cuisine is fattening and unhealthy
• Traditional cuisine yes. The recipes contain a
  lot of butter and fat, greasy meat, eggs, flour,
  cream.
• 2) Polish products are tasty and healthy as they
  are prepared in traditional way
• Fruit and vegetables are healthy too as they are
  grown without using chemical fertilizers.
• 3) The Poles consume the most of strong alcohols
  in Europe
• It is a common stereotype, but is it true?

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Statistic of drinking alcohols
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Polish cuisine

• Our cuisine has a lot of fat and caloric
  dishes. Many of them contain carbs.
• We add a lot of spices such as pepper, cumin,
  fennel, vinegar, horseradish, garlic or onions.
• Pickling is typical for our cuisine the
  process of preserving food like cabbage or
  cucumbers.
• We also have a lot of different soups.

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What is our cuisine famous for?

• Typical for our cuisine are
• Groats
• Bakery
• Dumplings
• Soups
• Groats are especially typical for our cuisine. It
  is for us the same thing as pasta is for Italians
  and we have a wide variety of groats (kasha).

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What else?

• We also eat a lot of
• Souerkraut
• Pickled cucumbers
• Cabbage stew (Bigos)
• Sausages
• Mushrooms

Our cuisine is reach in meat,winter vegetables
and spices. We also use a lot of flour products
(dumplings, noodles, pierogi), cream and eggs.
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Dishes from other countries influence our
national cuisine. There are some Turkish, German,
Russian, French, Jewish and Italian dishes. Some
examples Thanks to Italian cuisine our dishes
became lighter and we started to use more fruit,
vegetables and spices. Bona Sforza, Polish queen,
who came to us from Italy, had brought most of
vegetables we use nowadays. Russia gave us
kutia dessert made of poppy seeds, honey and
wheat. Thanks to Turkish cuisine we drink coffee
nowadays. French cuisine left for us aspic.
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STARTERS
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Herring
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Aspic
Its a kind of jelly (not sweet) with chicken and
vegetables.
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Eggs in mayonnaise dressing
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TYPICAL SOUPS
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Chicken soup
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Tomato soup
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Borsch with ravioli
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Potato soup
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Cabbage soup
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Sour flour-based soup
Soup made of soured rye flour and meat.
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Tripe soup
Beef or pork tripe stew with marjoram. Common
ingredients include beef tripe, beef, bay
leaf, parsley, carrot, beef broth, and spices to
taste, including salt, black pepper, nutmeg,
sweet paprika, and marjoram.
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Mushroom soup
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TYPICALMAIN COURSES
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Dumplings
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Pork chops
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Cabbage stew
Stew of sauerkraut and meat, sausages and
mushrooms.
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Meat rolls
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We eat them with...
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Pickled/preserved cucumbers
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Mushrooms
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Groats
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Kinds of groats
Buckwheat groats
Barley groats
Millet groats
Grits
Couscous
Semolina
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Sauerkraut pan-fried with fried onions
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Boiled potatoes
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Sausages
Sausages are very popular in polish cuisine.
There are many kinds of sausages.
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TYPICAL DESSERTS
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Poppy-seed cake
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Cheescake
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Modern polish cuisine
Modern polish cuisine is healthier and less
fattening than it used to be. The Poles follow
the experts advice and according to it the
Mediterranean diet is more and more popular. We
consume more fruit, vegetables, fish and oil,
cutting down on butter, cream and meat.