Hello my lords, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Nick Saraf's Foodlog!
It's time for us to head out east and we have come to dear old very cold, Poland!
So today, I am going to be making a Polish breakfast.
Now the names for the dishes in this breakfast is something I can't for the life may be pronounce.
So, I am just going to go ahead with the English translation.
So, for Polish breakfast we are making..
..'Potato Pancakes and 'Scrambled Egg with Pork Sausages'.
So, let's first start with Potato Pancakes.
So for making Potato Pancakes I have grated 4 large potatoes..
..just like we did in the Hash browns if you remember, the British breakfast!
Yes, those were quite good, weren't they?
So, we take 4 grated potatoes that have been submerged in water..
..and then the water drained out.
And we drain the water out again on some cloth.
Why do we make them so dry? You ask.
Refer to the Canadian breakfast.
As you leave the potatoes drying, break in 2 eggs in a bowl.
Break the yolks and mix them up lightly.
To this, we add about 1 and a half tbsp of cream.
Now this is not generally done in Poland..
..but I have noticed that if you do add the cream, it gives the pancakes a nice texture.
To this, we add the famous Polish marjoram.
This is a kind of a sweet and sourish spice.
You can chop the leaves up or leave them as they are.
They will mix up very well with the potatoes and give it good color and flavor.
Now we add, one chopped onion.
Finely chopped garlic.
Now I am quite heavy on the garlic myself!
Mix all of that up.
To this, we add the dried grated potato.
Mix that up as much as you can.
Now we are going to add about 2 tbsp of flour..
..and salt and crushed black pepper to our taste.
Now, we mix it up till it all combines.
Now in my opinion, this mixture is bit thick so I am going to crack in another egg.
There we go!
So let's start mixing this in.
Now, on a medium to high flame..
..put a good amount of oil.
As the oil heats up, slather on a generous amount of potatoes.
And flatten them..
..and try to make them round like pancakes and as thin as you can.
To go with the pancakes, we are going to make some sour cream dip.
I am going to make my own sour cream.
So for this I have taken about a cup of cream.
It can be no more cooking cream or whipping cream, whatever you wish.
In this I am going to put the juice of 1 lemon..
..and whisk it together.
The grated zest, about 2 tbsp of sugar, salt and some crushed black pepper.
So, we whisk this together and now we leave this in a warmish place for it to curdle slightly!
The next thing we make is a Scrambled Egg with Sausages.
So, the first thing we do is we cook the sausages.
So we cut them at an angle.
Like that!
On a medium to high flame, we put a not so generous helping of oil.
Because you don't need a lot of oil to cook these, it's already smoked!
It's just a light frying on the pan before we eat them.
As the oil heats up...
When it's sufficiently brown on one side, we just flip them over on the other.
And let it brown that too.
And when they are cooked on the other side as well, we take them off on an absorbent cloth.
We scramble the eggs in the same pan. We add just a touch of oil.
Start off on a low flame. As low as you can possibly get!
And break open 2 eggs.
To this, we add salt and crushed black pepper to our tastes.
You might have guessed by now, I am really like a lot of black pepper in everything.
Then we break it from the center.
Of course you can add pre whisked eggs to this but why to waste time when you can just break them..
..on their own and mix it together like this!
Also the little bits of the egg white that have cooked independent of the yolks..
..give it a good color.
We don't want them to be overcooked, so while they are still moist and runny (just a touch runny)..
..we get them off the heat, scramble them a bit more in the pan and on to the plate they go!
And then top it up with a good generous helping of the pork sausages.
There we go!
And now we top it up with some of this runny sour cream dip.
If you use whipped cream you would have dipped that holded shape..
..and you can pipe it out or eat it like cream cheese.
But I like runny dip because it's nice to dip your pancake and eat in it.
There we go!
So there you have it! A Polish breakfast.
Potato Pancakes with some creamy sour dip.
Scrambled Eggs with Pork Sausages.
As a Polish would say, 'smacznego!'
See! I can speak a little bit Polish if I want to.
No, while this is that one word actually!
Okay I am done. Now you can stop rolling.
I am serious, shut the camera!
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