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Skip to main content Part of our Heritage Kitchen Glossary – short guides to the ingredients and techniques behind Eastern European cooking. Put a plate of holubtsi next to a plate of gołąbki and they look like the same dish. Both are cabbage leaves softened in boiling water, wrapped around minced pork and rice and…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~40 minutes | Total time: ~4 hours (including rising and cooling) | Serves: 20 (2 loaves, 10 slices each) | Difficulty: Moderate Quick Overview Bloom yeast…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Prep: ~1 hour | Cooking: 2–2½ hours | Serves: 6–8 | Makes: approximately 16–18 rolls | Difficulty: Intermediate Quick Overview Soften a head of cabbage by freezing and…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Traditional Kapuśniak Recipe: Sauerkraut Soup with Pork Ribs Active time: ~30 minutes | Total time: ~1¾ hours | Serves: 6 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Brown the pork…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~30 minutes | Total time: ~35 minutes | Serves: 4 (about 12 pancakes) | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Drain or sieve the farmer’s cheese if it…
Skip to main content Part of our Heritage Kitchen Glossary – short guides to the dishes, ingredients and techniques of Eastern European cooking. Ask for a potato pancake in Warsaw, Kyiv and a Jewish home in either city, and you will get three different answers that look almost the same on the plate: placki ziemniaczane,…
Skip to main content Part of our Heritage Kitchen Glossary – short guides to the ingredients and techniques behind Eastern European cooking. The short answer Schmaltz is rendered poultry fat, chicken or goose, the cooking fat of Ashkenazi Jewish kitchens in Eastern Europe. Geese were slaughtered before Hanukkah so that their fat would last through…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Traditional Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~1 hour | Total time: ~3 hours, plus chilling overnight | Serves: 8 | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Simmer the fish heads and bones with…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~20 minutes | Total time: ~1 hour 20 minutes, plus chilling if served cold | Serves: 6 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Peel the beets, cut…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~35 minutes | Total time: ~45 minutes | Serves: 4–5 (about 16–18 pancakes) | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Grate the potatoes and onion on the large…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~45 minutes | Total time: ~4 hours, plus chilling the broth overnight | Serves: 8 | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Simmer a whole chicken with carrots,…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~30 minutes | Total time: ~1¾ hours | Serves: 10 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Boil wide egg noodles until just tender Whisk eggs, cottage cheese,…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~40 minutes | Total time: ~4 hours (including rising) | Serves: 16 (2 loaves) | Difficulty: Moderate Quick Overview Start the yeast in lukewarm water with…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~45 minutes | Total time: ~1¼ hours (including resting the batter) | Serves: 6 (about 12 blintzes, 2 per serving) | Difficulty: Moderate Quick Overview Whisk…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~25 minutes | Total time: ~1 hour 15 minutes | Serves: 4 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Soak the millet in boiling water, then rinse it…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Traditional Rosół Recipe: Clear Chicken Soup with Noodles Active time: ~30 minutes | Total time: ~3–3½ hours | Serves: 6 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Put the chicken…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~1.5 hours | Mushroom soaking: overnight | Total: ~2 hours | Yields: 50–60 dumplings | Difficulty: Intermediate Served with: Traditional Barszcz Czerwony — these two dishes…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~45 minutes | Fermentation: 5–7 days | Total cooking: ~1 hour | Serves: 6–8 | Difficulty: Intermediate Quick Overview Prepare the zakwas buraczany (fermented beet juice)…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~30 minutes | Total time: ~30 minutes | Serves: 4 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Fry small cubes of salo in a dry pan until golden…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~45 minutes | Total time: ~1 hour 40 minutes | Serves: 6 | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Whisk a thin batter of buckwheat and whole wheat…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~45 minutes | Total time: ~1 hour 30 minutes | Serves: 6 | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Whisk a thin batter of eggs, flour, milk and…
Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Active time: ~40 minutes | Total time: ~55 minutes | Serves: 4 (16–20 pancakes) | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Grate floury potatoes and an onion, half coarse and…
Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Active time: ~30 minutes | Total time: ~40 minutes | Serves: 4 | Difficulty: Easy Quick Overview Grate the potatoes and onion on the fine holes, a little…
Healthy Gołąbki Recipe: Lean Turkey and Brown Rice Cabbage Rolls Jump to Ingredients Jump to Instructions Jump to Recipe Card Jump to Nutrition Skip to main content Skip to ingredients Skip to instructions Skip to nutrition information Active time: ~1 hour | Total time: ~2–2½ hours | Serves: 6 | Difficulty: Medium Quick Overview Soften…
