POLISH MENU our favourite Polish dishes
BREAKFAST Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It helps us to wake up and gives energy for the rest of the day. A good breakfast should contain a lot of carbohydrates, protein and vitamins. Fibre is also very important. Here are the recipes for our favourite breakfasts ď Š
1. Sandwiches with egg and vegetables. Ingredients: 4 slices of a whole-grain bread, butter, lettuce, 2 radishes, a cucumber, 2 eggs, salt and pepper How to make it: First, butter the slices of bread. Then, put a piece of lettuce, slices of radishes and cucumber and pieces of egg on each slice of bread. Season the sandwiches with salt and pepper. Serve with tea.
Sandwiches with egg and vegetables.
2. Cottage cheese with fruit and honey. Ingredients: a packet of cottage cheese, one spoon of cream, fruit (strawberries, bananas, apples, rasperries, blueberries – whatever you like), two spoons of honey How to make it: Put the cheese into a bowl. Add cream and mix it with cheese. Add honey. Add fruit, mix everything softly. Serve with orange juice.
Cottage cheese with fruit and honey.
LUNCH We have lunch when we are at school. We don’t have much time to eat it – our two lunch breaks last only 15 minutes each (half an hour together), so our lunch can’t be big. It has to give us more energy. We usually eat lunch with our friends
1. Fruit with yoghurt and seeds. Ingredients: yoghurt, your favourite fruit (apples, pears, bananas, berries, peaches etc.), sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds. How to make it: Add fruit to yoghurt, mix smoothly. Add the seeds on the top. You can take it to school in a special container, similar to one you get when you order a milkshake in a cafe.
Fruit with yoghurt and seeds.
Other ideas for lunch: 1. Sandwiches with ham and red pepper. 2. Vegetables (carrot, broccoli, cucumber, tomato, lettuce) cut into pieces and served with garlic dip (cream + yoghurt + garlic = yummy dip!) 3. Juice or milk to drink – much healthier than coke ď Š
DINNER Yes, we know that breakfast should be the biggest meal of the day… but a typical Polish dinner is also quite big. The Poles like meat – we often eat it for dinner. We also like soups. We have many kinds of soups: beetroot soup, tomato soup, vegetable soup, „krupnik”, cucumber soup… but the most famous is chicken soup – we eat it every Sunday! Polish people love everything that contains flour, too. We use it to make pies and pancakes, we also coat the cutlets in it.
1. Chicken soup. Ingredients: 1 chicken, 3 big carrots, 2 parsleys, 1 small celery, 1 small leek, salt and pepper How to make it: Divide chicken into pieces. Wash and cut vegetables into pieces. Pour water into a big pot, add chicken. Boil water with chicken. Add 2 teaspoonfulls of salt, add vegetables and pepper. Boil slowly for 90-120 minutes. Serve with spaghetti pasta.
Chicken soup.
2. Kotlety schabowe (kind of pork chops) with potatoes and sour cabbage. Ingredients: two slices of pork (without bones), flour, egg, crumbs, salt and pepper How to make it: Smash the pork to make it thin. Season it with salt and pepper. Cover the slices of pork with flour, egg and crumbs (the order is important!). Fry until the cutlets get brown. Serve with mashed potatoes and sour cabbage . The Poles make sour cabbage at home once or twice a year – we put a lot of cabbage into a huge pot and season it with salt. Then we close the pot with a big plate and put a medium stone on it. We take the pot to the basement or to another dark and chilly room. After a month it’s ready, but sometimes we have to wait a little bit longer (we know it’s strange). It’s delicious!
Kotlet schabowy with potatoes and sour cabbage.
2. Bigos. Ingredients: fresh cabbage, sour cabbage, meat (sausages, ham, bacon, pork – whatever you have at home), mushrooms, a plum, salt and pepper How to make it: Put the cabbage, meat and mushrooms into a pot. Boil everything slowly for about 2 hours. Remember about adding water in the meantime. At the end add the plum, salt and pepper.
Bigos.
3. Pierogi ruskie (a kind of pies). Ingredients: 3 glasses of flour, 1 spoon of butter, half a spoon of salt, 1 glass of water, mashed potatoes, a glass of cottage cheese, 2 onions, salt and pepper How to make it: Fry the onion with butter. Mix onion with potatoes and cheese, add salt and pepper. Mix flour, butter and salt. Add boiling water. Knead the dough using hands. Then roll the dough. Take a glass and cut the circles from the dough. Put potato and cheese filling on each circle, then fold the circles and stick them with your fingers (the filling should be inside). Boil pierogi in salty water for 5-7 minutes. Serve pierogi with melted butter and fried onion. Yummy!
Pierogi ruskie.
THE END ď Š We hope you liked it!
Presentation made by: Gabriela Ośka Kaja Brzezińska Kinga Gawrońska Wiktoria Kardynia Aneta Myśliwiec Julia Maciąga Anna Górczyńska Dawid Kowaliczek Cezary Napieralski and Miss M.