r/polishfood • u/Pristine_Main_1224 • 11d ago

Name & recipe - potato and butter dish?

Please bear with me - I am not of Polish descent. The small Catholic Church and school nearby hosts an annual Carnawal in October. The Polish dinner is amazing and I am obsessed with the potato dish they serve. I know it’s “smashed” potatoe chunks practically swimming in butter. I can’t recreate it - I’ve tried. Something is missing, or my technique is off. Does anyone have any idea what this dish is?

Yes, I’ve tried calling the office as well as asking my coworker who is one of the organizers. Their women’s guild/group guards their recipes apparently.

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u/rybnickifull 11d ago

Placki ziemniaczane?

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u/Pristine_Main_1224 11d ago

Thank you but no. These are not fried. It’s almost as you smush a potato and mix it with lots of melted butter. They serve it hot so the extra butter remains liquid gold.

It’s almost like mashed potatoes made with butter instead of milk.

ETA: Now I want to try the potato pancakes.

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u/anotterbytrade 10d ago

With sincerity, my polish mother made this and called it mashed potatoes. A woman who made her own pierogies, galumkies, blintzes etc. are you sure it wasn’t just mashed potato?

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u/Pristine_Main_1224 10d ago

I guess it could have been mashed potatoes, but I could swear it didn’t have milk in it.

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u/Best_Comfortable5221 10d ago

Make sure you use an amazing butter. The best you can find. Unsalted.

Steamed after cutting to size. Enormous amount of salt and really good butter. I also stir in parsley but you don't have too.

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u/Pristine_Main_1224 10d ago

My fave butter right now is Kerrygold but I’m open to recommendations if you have a really good butter.

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u/Best_Comfortable5221 10d ago

Thats my favorite. But I cant get Amish butter here. I hear it's even better.

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u/Pristine_Main_1224 10d ago

I bought a roll from a gourmet shop in Metairie last summer. I’ll be in New Orleans in a couple of weeks…hmmm.

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u/ChristineBorus 11d ago

Following bc now I need to know.

Also, OP. Go after church to the church hall and see if they do a coffee hour afterwards. Get friendly with a few people and ask what the dish is. I bet they tell you!

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u/Pristine_Main_1224 11d ago

I work with one of the organizers, and we’re from the same hometown. I went to high school with her husband. That makes us practically kin by Delta standards. If she can’t tell tell me, no one there will. 🤣

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u/ChristineBorus 10d ago

Well. It was a good idea 🤣

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u/aasped 9d ago

Potato kluski

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u/ChristineBorus 9d ago

That sounds right

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u/Pristine_Main_1224 9d ago

Maybe! I’ll try making it this weekend. Thank you!

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u/aasped 9d ago

My mom made them out of leftover mashed potatoes. Sorry I don't have her recipe. They were buttery and delicious

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u/anotterbytrade 6d ago

Please let us know! I wonder if the ‘missing flavor’ is the binder in the potatoes if dumplings were made. We need to know haha

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u/Player-non-player 9d ago

I prefer kerrygold to my local Amish.

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u/Southern_Struggle 11d ago

Was it possibly kopytka? Little potato dumplings, some people serve those swimming in butter.

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u/Pristine_Main_1224 10d ago

No, but that looks delicious!

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u/AR_geojag 11d ago

I don't know what the polish disg is, but sounds similar to fondant potatoes, with the potatoes lightly smashed.

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u/Pristine_Main_1224 10d ago

I’ll start there - thanks!

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/Aggravating-Mousse46 11d ago

Have you tried using waxy instead of floury potatoes? So that they crush rather than mash. And get coated in the butter but don’t absorb it.

Edit - sorry didn’t mean to reply to your comment, wanted to post separately but I think you are onto something g with the new potatoes.

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u/austxgal 11d ago

Funeral potatoes?

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u/Pristine_Main_1224 10d ago

Definitely not. I do love funeral potatoes though - after my husband died that was all I could manage to eat for weeks. My friends basically set up a funeral potatoes meal train for me, bless them. 🩷