25 Polish Foods You Need To Try

From cabbage rolls to Silesian kluski, Poland has national dishes that are sure to please people from just about anywhere. And even if you're not used to cabbage, endless varieties of sausage, and sweet & sour flavors, you'll quickly learn that these are dishes prepared with thoughtfulness, perfected over centuries. Polish cuisine makes the most of the sometimes limited agricultural products that the country could produce, during cold winters and wartime. It makes the most of natural preservation methods, such as fermentation, and the results are surprisingly complex and pleasing, even for people unaccustomed to these things. These are 25 Polish foods you need to try.

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1. Stuffed Cabbage Rolls | 0:00
2. Bigos (hunter's stew) | 1:06
3. Pierogi | 2:15
4. Czernina | 3:18
5. Kaszanka | 4:13
6. Kolaczki | 5:06
7. Oscypek | 6:16
8. Silesian kluski | 7:06
9. Szarlotka | 7:55
10. Schabowy | 8:55
11. Ogorkowa | 9:49
12. Zurek | 10:51
13. Bialy Barszcz | 11:46
14. Barszcz Czerwony (Polish Red Borscht) | 12:42
15. Chlodnik (Polish Cold Borscht) | 13:33
16. Kielbasa | 14:38
17. Kabanosy | 15:27
18. Kasza | 16:17
19. Beef Stroganoff | 17:08
20. Golonka | 18:12
21. Polish potato pancakes | 19:03
22. Nalesniki and cheese blintzes | 19:58
23. Obwarzanek Krakowski (bagels) | 20:48
24. Gogol Mogol | 21:53
25. Karpatka | 22:48

[MashedFood]

We're sorry about our mispronounced words in this video. We'll make sure we do better next time!

[Barb]

My father's parents were Polish immigrants and my Mother's parents were Italian immigrants.
So, I grew up with Italian ravioli and Polish Pierogis.

[hellhound]

We have a large polish population in our town and my grandmother made polish food. I grew up on kielbasa with fried potatoes and onions. She made cabbage rolls but added hot Hungarian paprika to the filling. But her perogis were unique because they were filled with potatoes, cheddar cheese, bacon and various spices. She then deep fried them and made beer cheese sauce on the side. It often got paired with pork schnitzel pounded paper thin and homemade biscuits and strawberry preserves

[brianmoody]

To me all polish food is great cooked very well with love and understanding heart.

[adampiech]

Pierogi are not from Russia. The term "Ruskie pierogi" is associated with "Ruś" not Russia, a geographical location which corresponds with nowadays eastern border of Poland and part of Belarus. But overall they are Polish in origin. Ukraine, Belarus and Russia has some versions of them, but they are a bit different.

[markasdievovaikas]

Growing up in a Polish-Lithuanian immigrant family on the East coast of the US, we enjoyed so many of these wonderful foods... I miss not having them. I now get online orders of fresh and smoked Polish Kielbasa and Kiszka, and Czech Jaternice from a butcher shop in Thorp, Wisconsin. Thanks for the awesome video!

[AdamsTysu]

Dear Mashed! Thank you very much for this video. Great!
We have been growing cabbage here for hundreds of years. These are not German influences. We have many cabbage dishes (fresh, boiled, sauerkraut). The Germans occupied the western territories of Poland for over 120 years, and the Slavic lands between the Elbe and the Oder for 800 years, hence the similarities. they borrowed many things from the culture of the Western Slavs, and today those ignorant in the West think that it is German or Jewish. It was embarrassing. It was only 70-80 years after the war that the world noticed that there was an interesting place between Western Europe and Russia, marked by the culture of Western Slavs. And this is not Russia, although for many Americans the entire eastern Europe is probably Russia. Greetings.

[chip]

Żurek with mashed potatoes, bacon bits, white cheese and of course white sausage is the best thing for cold day's.

[wojciechpedzich]

Kasza with mushrooms for breakfast? Must be a different part of Poland than ones I lived in.

Oh, and do not worry about mispronouncing Polish words - this is indeed a difficult language to master.

[IowaGrandpaTrain]

Missing from the list is Pazcki or ponzcki (punch-key), which is one of my favorites!

[AsterFoz]

Nobody says "kasza". You need to say what type you mean (depending on plant and how big grain is). This here is "kasza gryczana" and is used in "typical polish dinner" (potatoes + salad + meat) as a substitute of patatoes. I've never seen or even heard of anybody prepearing it for breakfast. "kasza jęczmienna" is most often used for soup called "krupnik". Both "gryczana" and "jęczmienna" ar used to prepare things like stew or gulash. "kasza manna" is boiled in milk and eaten for breakfast often with sugar or fruit syrup. "kasza jaglana" is used in cakes and loved by vegans (ok, not me, I think it has no taste) who don't use eggs but need something sticky to "glue" the food and keep it in one piece :P "Kuskus" and "bulgur", which are two sizes of the same "kasza" are less used, mainly in some exotic dishes. And there are some more! When you only use word "kasza" it's like using only word "meat" - you don't know if it's pork or beef.

[argonwheatbelly]

The pronunciation chafes my inner Pole.

[dawidl]

Pierogi of Russian origin? Pierogi were eaten in Poland as early as the Middle Ages. Poland was in the Soviet Union? Nope. German influence in bigos? Sauer cabbage originates not from Germany but from China. Bigos can also be made from raw cabbage, it doesn't have to be sauerkraut. We do not eat blintzes or stroganoff in Poland. Many real Polish foods missing here. Where is Mazurek cake, Makowiec cake or Kapuśniak soup?

[kevinkibble]

Polish and Eastern European food is so good, it's like the perfect wintery comfort food. Very surprised it hasn't caught on the way other world cuisines have, but maybe it will one day.

[gandalug]

You will find pierogi in Poland, Ukraine and western Russia
It is not of Russian origin, just plain and simple Slav
And yes, the best pierogi are Polish

[kotkotlecik]

I'm a bit of a picky eater but ogórkowa, bigos and ruskie pierogi are always good. So hearty and comforting.

[Batman___]

fun fact from pol, kaszanka in aluminium foil with sauerkraut and onion,
love it ;)

[syscruncher]

Growing up in western PA, Polish dishes are very common and regardless of your heritage, they are comfort foods for the region.

When I moved to the western part of the US, I asked for pierogi in a grocery store and three separate employees had never heard of them.

[loboheeler]

If you want good sausage, go where there is a large number of Polish and German ancestry people. Glad they mentioned the Kabanos type smoked sausage, which is my favorite. There is a range of the dryness of smoked, and it's less perishable. Some good stuff in the Midwest, Pennsylvania, and even in parts of Texas. If in Chicago, don't miss Joe and Frank's in Oak Lawn. Very genuine and the staff is bi-lingual. More Polish people in Chicago than anywhere outside of Warsaw.

[jhonwask]

Since i'm Polish, I've eaten many of these foods and have prepared them as well. I really like Polish foods. i would say that most of these foods are peasant dishes.