Polish Pork 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 pork, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are frying, boiling, simmering and baking.

A mild, sweet meat that spans quick chops and bacon to long-cooked shoulder and ribs. In this collection it's most often cooked with dried marjoram, fine sea salt, tomato paste, egg, butter and onion. The dishes here span polish classics ready in as little as 35 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.