Pyzy ( singular: ) are a type of

dumpling Dumplings are a broad class of dishes that consist of pieces of cooked dough (made from a variety of starchy sources), often wrapped around a filling. The dough can be based on bread, wheat or other flours, or potatoes, and it may be filled wi ...

(

kluski Kluski (singular: ''klusek'' or ''kluska''; from German ''Klöße'') is a generic Polish name for all kinds of soft dumplings, usually without a filling. There are many different types of kluski, differing in basic ingredients and preparatio ...

). The dish is most commonly referred to in its plural form , as it is most commonly served as a main course meal: large oval-shaped

, characteristic to

Polish cuisine Polish cuisine ( ) is a style of food preparation originating in and widely popular in Poland. Due to History of Poland, Poland's history, Polish cuisine has evolved over the centuries to be very eclectic, and shares many similarities with other ...

Potato ''pyzy''

Potato pyzy () are prepared from a raw or a mix of raw and boiled

potato The potato () is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground stem tubers of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'', a perennial in the nightshade famil ...

es,''Pyzy borowiackie''

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Poland) The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Republic of Poland () was formed in October 1999 from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Economy of Poland; the ministry can trace its history to 1944. The Ministry's 1999 incarnation ...

optionally with added

flour Flour is a powder made by Mill (grinding), grinding raw grains, List of root vegetables, roots, beans, Nut (fruit), nuts, or seeds. Flours are used to make many different foods. Cereal flour, particularly wheat flour, is the main ingredie ...

egg An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the ...

s and

salt In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl). When used in food, especially in granulated form, it is more formally called table salt. In the form of a natural crystalline mineral, salt is also known as r ...

, cooked in boiling water. Stuffed with meat, twaróg or

mushroom A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing Sporocarp (fungi), fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or another food source. ''Toadstool'' generally refers to a poisonous mushroom. The standard for the n ...

stuffing Stuffing, filling, or dressing is an edible mixture, often composed of herbs and a Starch#Food, starch such as bread, used to fill a cavity in the preparation of another food item. Many foods may be stuffed, including poultry, seafood, and v ...

, alternatively served without stuffing, and instead served with

bacon Bacon is a type of Curing (food preservation), salt-cured pork made from various cuts of meat, cuts, typically the pork belly, belly or less fatty parts of the back. It is eaten as a side dish (particularly in breakfasts), used as a central in ...

lard Lard is a Quasi-solid, semi-solid white fat product obtained by rendering (animal products), rendering the adipose tissue, fatty tissue of a domestic pig, pig.

or fried

onion An onion (''Allium cepa'' , from Latin ), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus '' Allium''. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onion which was classifie ...

. Dishes prepared similar to potato pyzy include goły, kartacze and

Silesian dumplings Silesian dumplings (, , ) are potato dumplings traditional to the wider Silesia region of Poland . They are also called ''białe kluski'' ("white dumplings"). The dumplings are listed by the Polish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development ...

Leavened ''pyzy''

Leavened pyzy () are prepared from flour, eggs,

yeast Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom (biology), kingdom. The first yeast originated hundreds of millions of years ago, and at least 1,500 species are currently recognized. They are est ...

, milk, butter, sugar and salt. These are cooked in boiling water or on

steam Steam is water vapor, often mixed with air or an aerosol of liquid water droplets. This may occur due to evaporation or due to boiling, where heat is applied until water reaches the enthalpy of vaporization. Saturated or superheated steam is inv ...

(see

pampuchy Pampuchy (; see alternative names) are a type of steamed yeast dumpling ( kluski) or doughnut ( pączek) in Polish cuisine. A cooked pampuch (''sing.'') has an oval, flat on the bottom shape, with a bouncy, mushy and soft consistency. Pampuchy or ...

). In literature, pyzy are said to also be prepared by being baked in an oven.

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Potato ''pyzy''

Leavened ''pyzy''

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