For centuries, Polish cuisine has been influenced by the cuisines of surrounding countries like France, Italy, and others, borrowing from Tartar, Armenian, Lithuanian, Cossack, Hungarian, and Jewish cuisine. It is rich in meats like chicken and pork as well as winter vegetables and spices. Traditional Polish meals take a lot of time to prepare and can involve multi-day preparations for holidays. Famous Polish dishes include kielbasa sausage, sour rye soup, barszcz or borscht beet soup, flaki or flaczki meat stew, and gołąbki cabbage rolls. Popular desserts are pączki doughnuts and gingerbread.

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2. For centuries the Polish kitchen has beeninfluencedby France and Italy but it also borrowed from more exotic tables: Tartar, Armenian, Lithuanian, Cossack, Hungarian and Jewish Polishcuisinehesinfluenced and hasbeeninfluenced by thecuisines of thesurroundingcountriees.

3. It is rich in meat, especially chicken and pork, and winter vegetables (cabbage in the dish bigos), and spices, as well as different kinds of noodlesthe most notable of which are the pierogi. Bigos Pierogi

4. The preparation of traditional cuisine generally is time consuming and Poles spend a lot of time preparing and enjoying their festive meals, with some meals (like ChristamsEveor Easterbreakfast) taking a number of days to prepare them.

5. The Best Polishdishes Kielbasa (sausage)

6. The sour rye soupis a soup made of souredryeflourand meat (usually boiled pork sausage or pieces of smoked sausage, baconorham).

7. Barszcz (Borscht) It is a soup made with beetrootas the main ingredient.

8. Flaki or Flaczkiis a traditional Polishmeat stew. Its name is derived from its main ingredient: thin, cleanedstrips of beeftripe (in Polishflaki). The dish dates back as early as the 14th centurywas one of the favorite dishes of Polish king Władysław II Jagiełło.

9. Gołąbki are made form of cabbagerolls. Theyarepreparedfromcabbageleaveswhich are wrapped in a parcel-like manner around minced meat, chopped onionsand rice. Theyare most often baked and refried in a spicy or sweet-and-sour tomatosouce.

10. TraditionalPolishdesserts Pączki (doughnuts) aredeep-friedpieces of doughshaped into a flattened sphere and filled with confitureor other sweet filling. Pączki are usually covered with powderedsugar, iciingor bits of dried orange zest.

11. Gingerbreadis a sweet cakeorbiscuitmadewithginger and honey. The most famousgingerbreadsareproducedinTorun (a city whereCopernicus was born).