{"id":2434,"date":"2012-09-16T13:39:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T17:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elenamaximova.org\/food\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2012-10-15T08:10:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T12:10:23","slug":"belarus-cuisine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elenamaximova.org\/food\/2012\/09\/16\/belarus-cuisine\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus cuisine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making Belarus cuisine is like returning back home from a long trip. In a whole it looks familiar but you discover forgotten details all over again. Anyway, for the Belarus meal, I selected three dishes — Paparats Kvetka (“Fern Flower”, which is actually meat patties stuffed with butter and cheese), Draniki (Potato Pancakes), and Kulaga (a sort of fruit sauce). <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Paparats Kvetka<\/strong>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nThis is the dish I was referring to when I compared Belarusian cuisine to returning home after some absence. The dish itself is very familiar to anyone from the former USSR but some details are surprising. It is basically a meat patty fried in sunflower oil. However, this particular patty is stuffed with a mixture of cheese and butter. Yumm! … but not kosher \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Alex and Matthew loved the result and were even fighting for who gets a bigger size patty (well, Matthew was the winner, of course). Eugene tried a piece but wasn’t impressed (no surprise here). Anyway, here is the recipe<\/a> that I found on one of the Russian language sites and translated myself.<\/p>\n

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Draniki — Potato Pancakes <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hello, my old friends — draniki! I didn’t even have to look for the recipe. I know it. It is one of the simplest yet tastiest dishes I know. The whole family loves them including Eugene. Here is my simple recipe.<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • 1 kg (about 2 lbs, or about 4) potatoes, cleaned, peeled, and shredded<\/li>\n
  • 2 tbsp of all-purpose flower<\/li>\n
  • 1 tbsp of sour cream or buttermilk (optional)<\/li>\n
  • salt and black pepper to taste<\/li>\n
  • oil for frying<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Place shredded potato in a colander and get rid of the excess liquid. Mix all ingredients. Heat a nonstick skillet on medium high heat add oil. Using a tablespoon place potato mix to a hot skillet and press it down to make a nice oval or round shape. Fry pancakes on both sides until crispy and golden brown. Serve hot with sour cream.<\/p>\n

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Kulaga — Fruit Sauce<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
This sauce is so simple that even my 5 year old could make it. And he did! Eugene wanted to help so I let him make it (with some supervision, of course \ud83d\ude42 ). <\/p>\n

It is pretty simple. Take a bag of frozen berries (we had cherries, blueberries, strawberries, sour cherries, raspberries and blackberries). Put the berries in a stainless steel pot and heat on medium high heat. When they start to release juices, add about 2 tbsp of honey or sugar. Mix. Let it come to a gentle boil. In the meantime, combine in a small bowl about 1 tsp of flour with 3 tsp water. Make sure the mixture is smooth. Carefully add the flour mix to berries and stir. Let it boil for about 1 minute until it thickens. Done! Enjoy with ice cream or cr\u00e9pes or simply as is.<\/p>\n

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