Authentic Polish Cooking: 120 Mouthwatering Recipes, from Old-Country Staples to Exquisite Modern Cuisine

by Marianna Dworak

Readers say it best: "A great assortment of recipes from my Polish heritage and new ones to try" & "Recipes easy to follow, ingredients readily available"Polish cuisine is hearty and filling, and it is is not all meat and potatoes. This truly authentic cookbook makes a fantastic addition to any kitchen.Organized by course, this cookbook features 120 recipes, including beet soup, cucumber salad, potato pancakes, Hunter’s Stew, pork and rice stuffed cabbage leaves, traditional “babka” cake, and of course, pierogies!With easy-to-follow instructions for simple as well as more intricate dishes, a section on traditional holiday meals, estimated cooking times, and suggestions for healthy ingredient substitutions, this cookbook will teach anyone how to cook delicious Polish food.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food

177 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 17, 2016

Reviews

[Sany · Rating 3 out of 5]

Flipped through this book and marked a few recipes that looks good and suitable for my preference. What I love about this book is how simple the menus are. They need no more that 10 ingredients, many of them available on my local grocery store. Even if some of the ingredients are not cheap (we don't use sour cream on a daily basis and they're usually imported), I'm still intrigued to recreate it someday. I also love the author's message from her mother that you must be patient when cooking food especially if you want to make healthy and tasty ones to eat with your family. From my experience, taking shortcuts while preparing (or cooking) your food sure can make your life easier and the process faster, but the taste will be not as delicious as when you make them from scratch.

[sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

While I loved some of the recipes in here and am excited to make them in the very near future, I think this book would not work very well for anyone new to the kitchen. Lots of recipes were missing specific pan or baking dish sizes needed, time estimates, temperatures necessary for steps, etc. I’ve cooked with lots of these ingredients before so I can use context clues to figure most of these things out but I’m too intimidated to try some of the desserts since they don’t even say the size or shape of pan to bake things in.

[Susan Frost · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love the set up as well as the recipes

I have always loved the diversity of Polish cooking and this book doesn't disappoint So many great recipes. Well set up so the recipes are easy to get to.

[Irene Ballantine, M · Rating 1 out of 5]

If I could I would send Authentic Polish Cooking back!

Several of the recipes have the oven temp., but not the amount of time needed. Pictures and recipes were not together. Poorly presented!

[Karen Bryce · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good memories of childhood when my Dad cooked amazing authentic Polish foods. My Dad was part of the first of his siblings born in America not their homeland of Poland. Dad never used recipes. His Mother taught him.

[Deb Schutt]

Modern take on polish cooking ...great reference for me to get back to cooking polish food ...

[Lindsay Ross · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pierogies are my life!