DISHES FOR SPECIAL EVENTS

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DISHES FOR SPECIAL EVENTS

ChristmasChristmas Eve dinner traditionally consists of 12 dishes. Tradition requires that Christmas Eve dishes are meatless. They are actually quite healthy

because they contain mainly fish and vegetables. Easter

Easter Sunday in Poland is celebrated with an Easter breakfast. Easter breakfast consists of the foods blessed on Easter Saturday as well as other traditional Easter foods. It is typically a family-oriented occasion when hard

boiled eggs and cold meats like sausages are eaten.

Fat ThursdayIt is the last Thursday before the Lent and the last day of carnival.

CHRISTMAS

CARP is the most popular fish eaten at Polish Christmas Eve dinner. It is served fried or in jelly.

„Pierogi” – dumplings stuffed with cabbage or mushroom filling.

Red borsch with noodles stuffed with sauerkraut and mushrooms (“uszka” – literally “litttle ears”). It is the most popular Christmas soup served as a

starter.

Herring is served in oil or cream.

It is often used to make a soup as well.

Cabbage with beans. This dish is made of boiled cabbage cut into pieces and beans

with addition of some butter.

MAKIEŁKI is another typical Polish dish served at Christmas Eve. To prepare it you need 0,5kg of poppy filling, some milk, one small packet of pasta or one baguette, some sugar and

honey. You can add other delicacies as well.

Traditionally dried fruit compote (apples, plumps and pears) is drunk at Christmas

Eve dinner or even served as a soup.

Mushroom soup. In the autumn people in Poland often go to a forest to pick up mushrooms. Next, they dry them to use for the Christmas soup or

other dishes.

The most popular cakes

poppy seed cake

cheesecake

EASTER

Easter eggs called„pisanki”

Easter lamb made from

butter.

Żurek (a type of sour rye soup) with

potatoes, Polish sausage and eggs.

Easter cake called ‘babka’ is often served for dessert. To make ‘babka’ you need such ingredients:

- six eggs, - 1 glass sugar, - 3 glasses flour,- one spoonful baking powder, - one lemon, - six spoons oil, - one packet margarine,- one spoon vodka.

First, mix the margarine with sugar and add the yolks. Next, you have to add the flour with the baking powder, oil, vodka, and lemon juice. Everything must be mixed with the beaten egg white. The dough is baked for 45 min. in 180oC.

FAT THURSDAY

On this day we eat a lot of fatty foods. The most popular are doughnuts and Angel wings in Polish called faworki or chrusty (light

fried pastry covered with powdered sugar).