How to pronounce Kartacze

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /karˈtat͡ʂɛ/. In plain English letters that is kar-TAH-cheh, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Kartacze?

Kartacze is a main dish of Poland. Where it comes from: Suwałki region (Podlasie). People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are potato and pork. It tastes savory and rich.

Where Kartacze comes from

Kartacze is one of 32 signature dishes of Poland on this map. See all dishes from Podlaskie Voivodeship.

• Sękacz · Dessert · Suwałki region (Podlasie)

  Sękacz is a spit cake: a batter of butter, eggs, flour, sugar and cream is poured, layer after layer, onto a wooden roller or long cone that turns on a spit over an open fire, so that the cake grows in rings around it.

• Babka ziemniaczana · Main dish · Podlasie

  Babka ziemniaczana, potato babka, is a savoury bake of grated raw potatoes mixed with eggs, onion and pieces of bacon or pork fat, often with sausage in the Polish version, seasoned well and baked in a dish until the top is golden brown.

• Kiszka ziemniaczana · Main dish · Podlasie

  Kiszka ziemniaczana is a potato sausage: a pork casing filled with grated raw potatoes, bacon cracklings and fried chopped onion, then baked in the oven.

• Pierekaczewnik · Main dish · Podlasie (Lipka Tatars)

  Pierekaczewnik is the festive pie of the Lipka Tatars, the Tatar minority of Podlasie.

• Pierogi · Main dish · Poland

  Pierogi are half-moon dumplings of unleavened dough, boiled and often fried afterwards in butter with onion.

• Żurek · Soup & stew · Poland

  Żurek is a sour soup made with a fermented starter of rye flour, called zakwas, cooked with smoked meat, white sausage, garlic and marjoram, and often served with a halved boiled egg.

Food of Poland

Dishes like Kartacze in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Kartacze:

• Potato babka бабка · Main dish · Grodno and the west, Belarus

  Potato babka is a baked dish of grated potatoes, eggs and onions mixed with pieces of smoked or fried bacon, and sometimes sausage, cooked in a pot in the oven until crisp on the outside and soft inside.

• Cepelinai · Main dish · All Lithuania, Lithuania

  Cepelinai are large oval dumplings of grated raw and boiled potato, filled with minced pork or with dry curd cheese, and served with a sauce of sour cream, fried onions and bacon bits.

• Stegt flæsk med persillesovs · Main dish · Denmark

  Stegt flæsk med persillesovs is slices of pork belly fried in a pan or oven until crisp, served with boiled potatoes and parsley sauce, a béchamel with chopped parsley.

• Kohl und Pinkel · Main dish · Oldenburg (Lower Saxony), Germany

  Kohl und Pinkel is the winter dish of north-west Germany: long-cooked kale served with Pinkel, a smoked, coarse grain sausage, and potatoes.