Main Course
- Pierogi - dumplings, usually filled with sauerkraut and/or mushrooms, meat, potato and/or savory cheese, sweet curd cheese with a touch of vanilla, or blueberries or other fruits, such as cherries or strawberries, and sometimes even apples—optionally topped with sour cream, and sugar for the sweet versions.
- Bigos - stew of sauerkraut and meat, mainly kielbasa.
- Kotlet schabowy - Polish variety of pork cutlet coated with breadcrumbs made of pork tenderloin (with the bone or without), or with pork chop. Kotlet z kury is a Polish variety of chicken cutlet coated with breadcrumbs. Kotlet z indyka turkey cutlet coated with breadcrumbs.
- Golonka - stewed pork knuckle or hock
- Gołąbki - cabbage leaves stuffed with spiced minced meat and rice or with mushrooms and rice served with sour cream or tomato sauce.
- Kiełbasa - sausage is a staple of Polish cuisine and comes in dozens of varieties, smoked or fresh, made with pork, beef, turkey, lamb, veal with every region having its own specialty.
- Gulasz - stew of meat, noodles and vegetables (especially potato), seasoned with paprika and other spices usually eaten with buckwheat kasza.
- Zrazy - twisted shape thin slices of chopped beef, which is flavored with salt and pepper and stuffed with vegetables, mushrooms, eggs, and potato.
- Kurczak pieczony po wiejsku - Polish village style roasted chicken with onion, garlic and smoked bacon.
- Pieczeń cielęca - roast veal, marinated in an aromatic marinade. A delicious, crispy meat that simply melts in your mouth.
- Rolada z mięsa mielonego z pieczarkami - ground meat roulade stuffed with mushrooms
- Pieczeń wieprzowa z winem - pork roast with wine
- Pyzy - potato dumplings served by themselves or stuffed with minced meat or cottage cheese
- Kotlet mielony - minced meat with eggs, bread crumbs, garlic, and salt and pepper rolled into a ball and fried on onion butter.
- Baranina - roasted or grilled lamb.
- Bitki wołowe z pieczarkami/grzybami - beef cutlets with mushrooms.
- Bitki wieprzowe w sosie własnym - pork cutlets in gravy sauce.
- Filet z dorsza - cod fillet in beer batter served with mash potatoes.
- Karkówka - tenderloin, usually roasted
- Śledzie - Herring in oil with onions.
- Łosoś - salmon, often baked or boiled in a dill sauce.
- Pulpety or Klopsiki w sosie pomidorowym - meatloaf Polish style meatballs often in tomato or mushroom sauce.
- Kotlet Mielony Wieprzowy - Thick juicy cutlets made with freshly ground pork, bread crumbs, and spices. Often topped with mushrooms, gravy, cooked onions, or fried egg.
- Kotlet Mielony Drobiowy - Freshly ground chicken, bread crumbs, and spices combine in this juicy fried cutlet. Often topped with mushrooms, gravy, cooked onions, or fried egg.
- Polędwiczki wołowe - beef sirloin, often with rare mushroom sauce.
- Zrazy zawijane - beef rolls stuffed with bacon, gherkin and onion.
- Żeberka wędzone - smoked, roasted or grilled Ribs.
- Kurczak Pieczony - Roasted chicken.
- Wołowina Pieczona - Roast beef.
- Ryba Smażona - Fried breaded fish fillet.
- Schab Faszerowany - Stuffed pork loin.
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