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Polish food

Travelling around Poland you just can't miss visiting the traditional inn and tasting delicious, home made like food. Polish people still do shopping in a small local markets buying fresh food from the farmers. Genetically modified food is not popular here, in lots of the farms it is produced in the traditional ecological way, what provides really good quality.
Traditionally Polish people have 3 meals during the day: breakfast – not very heavy with some sandwiches, cheese, quark or eggs, dinner (at bout 1.00 PM) – rather heavy, with soup, the second course and kompot (stewed fruits) and light supper. It is the reason why in Poland typical lunch bars are not very popular – you can find them in the big cities or the tourist places, but travelling off the roads finding sandwiches or salad bar is rather difficult.
Cuisine varies according to the region and although each of them has its specialite de la maison there are the dishes well known in every single corner of Poland, considered as typical Polish: pierogi, bigos, barszcz, kotlety.

Soups

 Polish eat lot of soups and you can find really astonishing the variety of them. One of the most popular is red barszcz (beetroot soup), eaten with potatoes or croquette, sometimes served as the plain one in a glass. White barszcz, known also as Zurek is prepared of fermented sour with potatoes, sausage, onion and eggs. It is very nutritious! Mushroom soup is especially popular in autum, where lots of Polish people go to forests to pick up them. The taste of this soup made of fresh mushroom is really unforgettable! Mushrooms are very popular in Polish cuisine – dried mushrooms, marinated ones, dumplings with mushrooms, cabbage with mushrooms... The mushroom soup is obligatory served during the Christmas Eve's supper. Sauerkraut soup made of fermented white cabbage is especially known in the mountainous region and it is called there kwasnica. To the list of 'must taste soups' you can add the beans soup (grochówka) with bacon or sausage and tomato soup (pomidorowa).

Dishes

 Polish eat lot of meat – grilled, stewed, fried, roasted.. Barbecued spareribs (żeberka), pork chops (kotlet schabowy) and mince meat chops (mielony or sznycel) are obligatory dish for Sunday family dinner. Being in Poland try golonko (pigs knuckles), usually with garlic and beer – most of men really love it! Stuffed duck is considered traditional dish, but today it seems to be not so popular any more. You can still find it the good restaurants. One of the most popular traditional dishes are pierogi (dumplings): with meat, with quark or cabbage and mushrooms, or so called Russian pierogi (filling made of potatoes, quark and onion). In the bars you can find also seasonal version: with blueberries, raspberries or strawberries with cream on the top. Bigos is stewed sauerkraut with pieces of meat, mushrooms or dried plums. If you do not fancy heavy dinner order placki ziemniaczane (kind of potato pancakes) with cream or with gulasz, or pancakes (naleśniki)– in Poland pankes are the main course and can be served with almost everything: the most popular however are with quark, or with spinach and cheese.

Drinks

 Do not be surprised seeing Polish drinking tea all the time – it seems to be one of the most popular drinks. Polish drink usually black tea, plain one or with slice of lemon or with confiture. If you got cold order so called mountaineers' tea (herbatka goralska) with a shot of cherry vodka or spirit inside. It will really warm you up! In winter except for the warming up tea you can also get hot beer (served with slice of orange or some spice) and hot wine with spice - the best one is grzaniec galicyjski, traditionally connected with the Krakow region.

The most popular alkohol is beer – it is variety is surprising. Polish beer is usually lager type one and quite strong (up to 7%). In Poland lot of vodka is produced – it is made of rye, wheat or potatoes. If you plan to taste some vodka try all the most popular types: the white one (any kind), żołądkowa (yellowish, made of herbs and dried fruits), wiśniowka (cherry vodka) and obligatory famous Żubrówka – the Bison Grass Vodka. The characteristic flavour of this vodka is given by the unique type of grass that comes from the Bialowieza Forest (Puszcza Bialowieska), the remain of the oldest European primal forest. The local herd of the bisons gave the beginning of the reconstruction of the bisons in Europe and...the name of vodka!