Polish Cuisine - Side Dishes & Salads

Side Dishes & Salads

• Kartofle Gotowane - Simple boiled potatoes sparkled with parsley or dill are elegant.
• Kopytka - Hoof-shaped potato dumplings.
• Kasza gryczana - Cooked buckwheat groats.
• Tłuczone Ziemniaki - Mashed potatoes.
• Mizeria - Mizeria is traditional Polish salad made from cucumbers in sour cream with dill.
• Surówka z Białej Kapusty - Cole Slaw blend of freshly shredded cabbage, carrots, mayonnaise and spices.
• Sałatka Warzywana or Jarzynowa - Polish Vegetable Salad is a traditional Polish side dish with cooked root vegetables, tomato, potato carrot, parsley root, celery root, combined with cucumbers in brine and hard-cooked eggs in mayonnaise and mustard sauce.
• Kapusta Zasmażana - Sauerkraut pan-fried with fried onions, cooked pork, whole pepper, and rich spices makes for a truly hearty side dish.
• Surówka - Raw sauerkraut, apple, carrot, onion salad.
• Sałatka - Original Polish salad lettuce, tomato, cucumber or pickled cucumber/preserved cucumber, optional to add very small amount of white vinegar, as dressing heavy cream, mayonnaise or other dressings as pleased.
• Sałatka Burakowa/Buraczki - Finely chopped warm beet root salad.
• Fasolka z Migdałami - Fresh slender snipped grean beans steamed and topped with butter, bread crumbs, and toasted almond slices.
• Ogórek Kiszony - Polish pickled cucumber.
• Ogórek Konserwowy - Preserved cucumber which is rather sweet and vinegary in taste.
• Pieczarki Marynowane - Marinated mushrooms.
• Sałatka Ogórkowa - Pickled cucumber, Preserved cucumber, copped red peppers, onions salad.
• Sałatka z Krewetek - Polish shrimp salad finely chopped hard-cooked eggs, cooked carrots, celery, onion and diced pickle along with the tiny shrimp.
• Sałatka z Boczkiem - Polish wilted lettuce salad is made with romaine or iceberg lettuce, chopped hard-cooked eggs, finely chopped onion, vinegar, bacon cut into 1/2-inch pieces, water, sugar, salt and pepper.
• Sałatka Wiosenna - Polish spring salad chopped finely, radishes, green onions, pencil-thin asparagus, peas, hard-cooked eggs or cubed yellow cheese, mayonnaise, salt and pepper, sweet paprika for color.
• Sałatka Kartofli or Sałatka Ziemniaczana - Polish potato salad made with red or white potatoes cooked in their jackets, cooled, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch dice, carrots, celery, onion, dill pickles, mayonnaise, sugar, salt and pepper.
• Surówka z Marchewki - Polish carrot salad made with 5 peeled and coarsely grated large carrots, 1 peeled, cored and coarsely grated large granny smith apple, juice of 1/2 lemon, sunflower or vegetable oil, salt, sugar.