These Christmas recipes are loved by Polish all over. The traditional Polish Christmas recipes are lovingly prepared in kitchens all over Poland and around the world. Some of Polish Christmas recipes are as follows:
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All Polish Christmas foods are meatless and should be prepared from foods which come from the four corners of the earth: forest, sea, field, and orchard. Polish cook over the centuries had to be very practical, working within these limitations, and it is a tribute to their creativity that they came up with such a rich variety of recipes based on root vegetables, dried mushrooms and dried fruits, potatoes and cabbage, local fish, and flour-based pastries and dishes, like kluski and pierogi.
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For Easy Beet Soup
3 or 4 cans of whole beets
2 cans of vegetable, mushroom, or beef broth
2 cups of water
4 cups of tomato or vegetable juice
juice of 1/2 lemon
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon salt
Strain the beets and set aside. Mix beet juice, broth, water and tomato or vegetable juice in an enameled or stainless steel soup pot. Bring to a gentle boil -- do not let the soup boil for more than a minute or it will lose its clear red color. Grate the beets from one or two cans into the soup. (Reserve the remaining beets for a salad). Add lemon juice and seasonings to taste. Reheat before serving, making sure not to bring to a boil. Place 5 or 6 uszka dumplings in each bowl before serving and pour barszcz over them (uszka recipe follows).
For Rolled Herring
4 pickled herring filets, each cut into 3 thin pieces
pickling juices from jar reserved
dill pickles quartered and cut into one-inch pieces
pickled onions
dill or parsley for garnish
Put a piece of pickle and a pickled onion at one end of a herring piece. Roll the herring firmly and skewer with a toothpick to hold the roll together. Before serving for dinner, drizzle rolls with some of the pickling juice from the herring jar, place in a few small sprigs of fresh dill or parsley into an open end of each roll and serve with rye bread or pumpernickel as an appetizer before Wigilia.
Pike Polish Style, Sauerkraut with Mushrooms, Noodles with Cabbage, Mushroom Cabbage Rolls and many more can be added to Polish Christmas Recipes for dinner. Go online, take help from there, prepare the food stuff according to your wish and enjoy your Christmas in a different way.
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