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Belarus

Belarus’s food is built around potato-centred comfort: pancakes, babka and rich pork gravies with forest and birch flavours. Look for Draniki (crisp grated-potato pancakes with smetana, national favorite), Machanka (pork and sausage gravy for dipping pancakes) and Potato babka (grated potato baked with pork belly and onions). Grated potato pancakes fried in oil; potatoes became the Belarusian staple in the nineteenth century and shaped the country’s cooking. This atlas has 32 Belarus dishes catalogued below, from everyday cooking to food kept for festivals and special occasions.

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  • Samahon

    Home-distilled grain or beet spirit shared at village feasts. Ready in none prep and none cooking. Not made at home;…

  • Tvarog

    Fresh curd cheese eaten with sour cream or baked into pancakes. Ready in 15 minutes prep and 20 minutes cooking.…

  • Vantrabianka

    Liver and buckwheat sausage, boiled then fried in slices. Ready in 10 minutes prep and 25 minutes cooking. Serves 4.…

  • Vereshchaka

    Pork ribs stewed in dark rye-kvass gravy. Ready in 25 minutes prep and 1 hour 30 minutes cooking. Serves 6.…

  • Zacirka

    Milk soup with pinched dough crumbs. Ready in 20 minutes prep and 25 minutes cooking. Serves 4. A soup &…

  • Zhuravinny mors

    Cranberry juice with sugar and water, served cold and sharp. Ready in 20 minutes prep and 20 minutes cooking. Makes…

  • Zrazy

    Beaten meat or potato patties rolled around a savoury filling. Ready in 40 min prep and 45 min cooking. 6…

  • Zubrovka

    Vodka infused with bison grass from the Białowieża forest. Ready in 15 minutes prep and none cooking. Makes about 700…

  • Draniki

    Crisp grated-potato pancakes with smetana, national favorite. Ready in 25 min prep and 30 min cooking. 4 servings (about 16…

  • Machanka

    Pork and sausage gravy for dipping pancakes. Ready in 20 min prep and 1 hr cooking. 4 servings. A soup…