Israeli cuisine spicy or sweet-and-sour, with ingredients such as bell peppers, chili peppers, figs, onion, artichoke bottoms, Swiss chard, beet, dried fruits, tomato, vine leaves, potatoes, mallow, eggplants and zucchini squash, and stuffing such as meat and rice in Balkan style, bulgur in Middle Eastern fashion, or with ptitim, a type of Israeli pasta. The Ottoman Turks introduced stuffed vine leaves in the 16th century and vine leaves are commonly stuffed with a combination of meat and rice, although other fillings, such as lentils, have evolved among the various communities. Artichoke bottoms stuffed with meat are famous as one the grand dishes
Pyzy (dish) Pyzy (dish) Pyzy () are a type of dumpling (kluski). The dish is most commonly referred to in its plural for "pyzy", as it is most commonly served as a main course meal: large oval-shaped kluski, characteristic to Polish cuisine. Potato pyzy are prepared from boiled potatoes, optionally with added flour, eggs and salt, cooked in boiling water. Stuffed with meat, twaróg or mushroom stuffing, alternatively served without stuffing, and instead served with bacon, lard or fried onion. Dishes prepared similar to pyzy are inter alia: kartacze, goły, potato knedle and Silesian dumplings ("kluski śląskie"). Leavened pyzy or "pyzy drożdżowe"