Polish Chicken Recipes

Polish cuisine — Bigos, pierogi, żurek — hearty, warming Central European comfort food — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Polish cooks work with chicken, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, sautéing and frying.

The world's most-cooked protein — mild, lean and endlessly adaptable to almost any spice profile or cooking method. In this collection it's most often cooked with fine sea salt, carrots, parsnip, bay leaves, thin egg noodles and onion. The dishes here span polish classics ready in as little as 70 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.