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Do you have any recommendations/recipes for vegan Polish dishes (i.e. dishes that happen to be vegan)?
by Tijdreiziger 2y ago
Do you have any recommendations/recipes for vegan Polish dishes (i.e. dishes that happen to be vegan)?
- nothercastle 2y agoDeep fry tofu squares in potato starch. Eat them with rice and broccoli. Dip the tofu in spicy red Korean paste sauce or skiyaki sauce.
- hansvm 2y agoVegetarian dishes are common. Vegan dishes are a tiny bit more rare. - Pickle soup is a classic (use a recipe with fermented pickles, which are pretty easy to make at home, but larger grocers often also sell them refrigerated as a kosher product). Aside from the sour cream it's naturally vegan, and a vegan sour cream might work fine. - Borscht is a delicious beet soup. - Wild mushroom perogies are also pretty close, save for egg and sour cream in the dough. Vegan substitutes would definitely work there, else if you experiment a bit with the hydration a basic hot water and flour dough would be close. - Cabbage soup is similar to pickle soup in spirit (using sauerkraut, another lacto-fermented vegetable). - Placki Ziemniaczane (somewhat similar to US hash browns) is often served with mushroom sauce. Sometimes it'll have egg as a binder, but that's not essential for a very similar dish (replace it if you'd like, or add a bit more flour and water, or just leave it out). - Braised sauerkraut - Krupnik is a barley soup, often made with meat stocks, but vegetable stocks aren't bad either.
- Tijdreiziger 2y agoThanks!
- pvaldes 2y agoBut remember that Polish beet soup has often milk or cream added on it. If is pink it has milk. If is purple not necessarily.
- hansvm 2y agoThat's a fair callout. I think the best borschts I've eaten had dairy, but somehow I had bright purple soups in mind when I wrote that and forgot about the others. With any luck, a vegan sour cream ought to get you to that pink classic. No promises though, and the purple version is also great.
- soperj 2y agoQuestion for vegans, are they allowed to eat bread (on account of the yeast)?
- shafyy 2y agoI'm not an expert on Polish dishes, but I learned that it's pretty easy to make any dish vegan if you are an average cook. If you live in a bigger cities, you'll find many meat alternatives. Pick the ones that you think comes closest to replace the meat in your dish. Replace butter with olive oil or margerine. Replace milk with oat milk (or soy milk). Replacing cheese is the hardest, but there are increasingly better options now.