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Żurek – Żurek – soured rye flour soured rye flour based based soupsoup served with served with white sausage and hard-boiled egg white sausage and hard-boiled egg

Barszcz – beetroot soup often served with dumplingsBarszcz – beetroot soup often served with dumplings

Rosół – clear chicken soup served with noodlesRosół – clear chicken soup served with noodles

Bigos – Bigos – a stew of a stew of sauerkraut, sauerkraut, meat meat and and mushroomsmushrooms

Kotlet schabowy – Kotlet schabowy – a breaded pork chop, served with boiled a breaded pork chop, served with boiled potatoes or hoof-shaped dumplings (in the picture) and potatoes or hoof-shaped dumplings (in the picture) and cabbage stew cabbage stew

Pierogi - Pierogi - dumplings, usually filled with dumplings, usually filled with sauerkraut and mushrooms, meat, potatosauerkraut and mushrooms, meat, potatoeses or or savory cheese savory cheese

Vegetable Salad /Sałatka jarzynowa/ – a Vegetable Salad /Sałatka jarzynowa/ – a mayonnaise based vegetable salad mayonnaise based vegetable salad made of made of potatoes, carrots, apples, onions, leeks, green potatoes, carrots, apples, onions, leeks, green peas and hard-boiled eggspeas and hard-boiled eggs

Polish sausage comes in a Polish sausage comes in a wide variety of versions (raw, wide variety of versions (raw, cooked, smoked or whitecooked, smoked or white etc. etc.))

Polish dinner is served with potatoes; Polish dinner is served with potatoes; a popular a popular supplementsupplement is a is a dill pickledill pickle and sauerkrautand sauerkraut saladsalad

Oscypek - Oscypek - hard, saltyhard, salty,, smoked smoked cheesecheese from from sheep or sheep or goat milk traditionally made by Polish highlandersgoat milk traditionally made by Polish highlanders

A traditinal hors d'oeuvre is a slice of bread served withA traditinal hors d'oeuvre is a slice of bread served with lard lard ((wwhich contains some hich contains some onion, marjoram and onion, marjoram and somesometimes times apple or pruneapple or prune),), a dill pickle and creamed a dill pickle and creamed herringherring

The most popular alcoholic beverages in Poland are The most popular alcoholic beverages in Poland are vodka and beervodka and beer

Mead is one of Mead is one of Polish original Polish original alcoholic alcoholic beveragebeveragess