Category Archives: Favorite Polish Recipes

CHOCOLATE CHIP CAKE Tort Z Czekoladowy

CHOCOLATE CHIP CAKE Tort Z Czekoladowy

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: polish
Keyword: cake, chocolate, chocolate cake

Ingredients

  • 1 cup dates
  • 1 cup sugar
  • ¾ cup Crisco
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups cake flour
  • 1 tbsp. cocoa
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. salt

Instructions

Prep dates

  • Cut up the dates and put them in a bowl.
  • Add 1 ¼ of boiling water.
  • Set aside.

Beat

  • 1 cup sugar
  • ¾ cup of Crisco
  • 2 eggs

Sift

  • 2 cups of flour
  • 1 tbsp. cocoa
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. salt

Mix together

  • Add your mix and dates to the mixture, you beat (a little at a time) until all is mixed together.
  • Before putting into the oven sprinkle package of chocolate chips and a ½ cup of sugar over the top
  • Preheat oven to 350° and bake for 30-35 minutes

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PIEROGI WITH SOUR CREAM TOPPING PIEROGE ZE SWIĘTANOM

 

PIEROGI WITH SOUR CREAM TOPPING PIEROGE ZE SWIĘTANOM

Course: Dinner, Lunch, Main Course, Main Dish, Side Dish
Cuisine: Poland, polish
Keyword: Pierogi, Sauerkraut

Ingredients

  • 1 small head cabbage or 2 cups sauerkraut
  • 2 cups mushrooms
  • 2 tbsp sour cream
  • 1 small onion chopped fine
  • Butter
  • Salt and pepper

Instructions

  • Quarter cabbage and cook in salted water for 15 minutes.
  • Drain, cool and chop fine. (If you use sauerkraut, rinse and chop)
  • Saute onion in butter, add chopped mushrooms and saute five min.
  • Add cabbage (or sauerkraut) and seasonings and continue to cook until flavors blend.
  • Add sour cream and cool.
  • Fill and cook pierogi.
  • Serve cooked pierogi with sour cream or melted butter topping.

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The following are previously published dough recipes:

 Polish Pierogi Dough

Cuisine: Poland, polish

Ingredients

  • 6 cups flour
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • lb butter
  • ¾ cup warm milk
  • 1 ½ tsp salt
  • ½ pint sour cream

Instructions

  • Mix ingredients together.
  • Knead and roll out on a floured board.
  • Cut dough into round circles.
  • Put filling in the center of dough circle; fold over and press edges together to seal.
  • Drop into salted boiling water and cook.
  • Drain.
  • Arrange in baking dish.
  • Cut up onion and fry in butter and pour over top.
  • Bake in a low oven for about 15 minutes; longer for a crisper dough.

 

PIEROGI WITH WARM MILK AND SOUR CREAM Perogi z Mickiem i Śmietang Dough recipe

Cuisine: Poland, polish
Keyword: Pierogi
Author: Irene H Szczesniak

Ingredients

  • 3 cups flour
  • ½ cup warm milk
  • 3 eggs
  • ½ cup sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Instructions

  • In a medium-sized bowl put the flour.
  • Make a well in the middle and break in the eggs; add salt and the warm milk.
  • Stir a little then add the sour cream.
  • Blend together well and knead on a lightly floured board until a nice ball of dough is formed.
  • Let dough rest about 15 minutes.
  • Roll out thin and cut into rounds or squares.
  • Fill with special cheese filling and pinch and seal.
  • Drop into salted boiling water.
  • Cook gently for 3 to 5 minutes.
  • Lift out carefully with a slotted spoon.
  • Serve with melted butter or sour cream.

RABBIT (ZAJĄC PIECZONY)

 

RABBIT (ZAJĄC PIECZONY)

Course: Dinner, Lunch, Main Course, Main Dish
Cuisine: polish
Keyword: bunny, rabbit

Ingredients

  • Rabbit
  • Flour for dredging
  • 4 tbsp. butter
  • 1 cup Chopped mushrooms
  • 1 onion chopped
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 3 pinches dry thyme
  • 3 bay leaves
  • cup meat stock
  • cup tart white wine
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  • Cut rabbit in desired pieces, dredge with flour, and brown in butter.
  • Add rest of ingredients; bake in 350° oven until tender.

Notes

Should you not want to use wine, add 1 can cream of mushroom soup diluted with 1 cup water.
This makes an excellent gravy.

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