It is known that many products can be prepared from one product. Potato in Belarusian is no exception. It was in this country that it became the second bread, as for many Japanese rice. Here they learned to use it in various variations. We can’t make out all of them, but the most popular ones are required.
Braised Bulb with Meat
This Belarusian dish of potatoes is the easiest option to feed your household a delicious dinner.
Prepare for 4 servings:
- 1 kg of lamb (can be replaced with any soft meat);
- potatoes (it is better if it is not very young) - 7-8 medium tubers;
- carrots - 2 pcs.;
- large onion;
- tomato paste - 5 tablespoons
- 1 teaspoon;
- spice;
- greens;
- salt.
Meat can be taken with bones, but washed thoroughly to remove splinters. Divide into portions and pre-dip in the marinade. It may just be salt, spices and lemon juice. Leave for a short time.
While preparing vegetables. For potatoes in Belarusian, they are cut quite large. First, fry the carrots together with potatoes to get a beautiful golden crust, and set aside.
In a separate frying pan, pass the onions in half rings and spread the lamb. Add tomato paste, adjika and simmer under the lid over low heat until almost ready. Then pour the vegetables here, salt and pepper. Leave on the stove for another 15 minutes. Sprinkle with herbs.
In this dish, instead of meat, sometimes a simple stew is used for quick cooking.
Baked potatoes with mushrooms and fish
For this dish you will need clay pots. They are often used in Belarusian cuisine.
Ingredients:
- fish fillet - 250 g;
- sour cream - 100 g;
- dried mushrooms (forest) - 40 g;
- young potatoes - 500-600 g;
- bow 2 pcs.;
- 2 tbsp flour;
- salt and spices;
- for frying vegetable oil.
The recipe for Belarusian potatoes in a pot will appeal to you, as the dish is hearty. His appearance is very attractive, so you can serve it on the festive table.
To begin with, dried mushrooms are washed in a colander under a large amount of water and soaked for 3 hours. Then we put this saucepan (without changing the liquid) on the fire and cook until tender. We get, chop and fry with onions in a heated pan. Separately, brown chopped potatoes and fish fillet, chopped in flour.
We put everything in prepared containers in layers and pour in strained and salted mushroom broth. 1 spoon of sour cream on top and send to the oven until fully cooked.
Draniki
Perhaps everyone tried this wonderful dish. It is especially tasty if served with sour cream.
For 1.5 kg of potatoes we take:
- 100 g fat;
- flour - ½ cup;
- 2 eggs;
- spice.
Belarusian potato pancakes are prepared from tarkovannoy mass. To obtain it, you need to grate the raw vegetable and in no case squeeze the juice. To this we add slightly fried lard, cut into small cubes, and other products. Knead thoroughly.
After that, we heat the pan with sunflower oil and, making pancakes with our hands, fry them until cooked on both sides.
Nothing complicated, only I had to tinker with potatoes.
Zeppelins
In general, this dish is considered Lithuanian. Large dumplings with filling are cooked there, and here we will fry them. Inside put different products. We will try to cook with meat.
For 12 tubers we get:
- minced meat (any) - 0.5 kg;
- 1 medium onion;
- egg;
- black pepper and salt to your taste.
Potato is a peculiar dish in Belarusian. Here we have the dough will be made from it.
To do this, we make a crush from half the tubers and leave them to cool. The remaining 6 are rubbed on a coarse grater and squeezed into a cup the juice, which must be allowed to settle and collect all the starch from the bottom. Mix both masses, add pepper, egg and salt.
In a separate bowl, prepare the minced meat, in which we add the onion, very finely chopped, and spices.
Now, plucking the ball from the potato dough, put the filling inside and give the shape of an oval pie. Fry each in sunflower oil, over low heat for about half an hour.
You can simply serve it with sour cream, fried onions in bacon or boil some sauce.
Potato headstock
An old Belarusian dish was previously prepared in the oven. Now they use the oven, but the taste did not suffer much from this.
For 1.5 kg of potatoes we lay out:
- fatty pork - 120 g;
- fresh lard - 250 g;
- 4 medium onions;
- 3 eggs;
- flour - 3 tbsp .;
- all spices to your taste.
Cut the meat with fat into small cubes and start frying in a pan without adding oil. Pour chopped onion there. Turn the slices well so that everything does not burn, salt and bring to readiness.
In a cup, mix grated potatoes, eggs, sour cream and flour. Add cooled pork and spices. Put the resulting mass into a well-greased form with sunflower oil and bake on medium heat for about an hour.
In this article, we were able to describe all the potato dishes in Belarusian, but now you know the main and most popular ones. The family will appreciate your culinary skills and the variety of dining tables.