Measurement Conversions List Being a couple of ex-pats (Polish & Dominican) living in the UK we used to have constant problems with metric and imperial weights, volumes etc. and created this little measurement conversions list for cooking to help us understand each other. We hope someone will find it useful as well… spoons to millilitres & cups 1 pinch = 1 ml 1 tsp […]
Traditional Polish Vegetable Salad Recipe for traditional Polish vegetable salad with lots of root veggies and mayonnaise.
Sweet Carrot Salad INGREDIENTS 3 large carrots – about 500g (grated) 3 small apples – about 300g (grated) – optional, can be replaced with more carrots juice from ½ large lemon 1½ tbs golden caster sugar or to taste METHOD Grate carrots, then apples and quickly add lemon juice for apples not to get brown. Add sugar and […]
Mashed Potatoes INGREDIENTS 2kg boiled potatoes 1 tbs of vegetable stock powder or Vegeta (vegetable seasoning) 4 tbs mayonnaise or butter 4 tbs soured cream or natural yoghurt 1 tbs of garlic powder – optional dried sage – optional dried thyme or even better some fresh or frozen thyme – optional METHOD Mash potatoes when still hot, […]
Coconut Rice INGREDIENTS 3 cups of easy cook rice 6 cups of water 75g (about ½ cup) coconut milk powder or 2 cups of coconut milk but then only 4 cups of water salt METHOD Place rice, milk powder, salt and water in pot, cover and cook stirring from time to time, till it’s ready. Serves 5-6 […]
Mizeria (Polish Cucumber Salad) INGREDIENTS 1 large English cucumbers (sliced finely or grated into slices) 300ml soured cream golden caster sugar or other fine sugar salt METHOD Mix cucumber and soured cream, season with salt and sugar. Keep in refrigerator before serving. Serves 4 people as side dish to main course.
Spinach & Mushroom Filled Pancakes / Krokiety INGREDIENTS for the filling 4 medium onions (chopped) 1 kg frozen spinach 1 kg white mushrooms (chopped) oil for frying 1 tbs of Vegeta (vegetable Vegeta (vegetable seasoning) 1 tbs garlic powder ground black pepper to taste 300g Red Leicester or other cheese (grated) for pancakes 3 cups self raising flour or 3 cups plain […]
