3 dishes people actually cook in Belarus: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Belarus? 3 traditional Belarus dishes, from Draniki (35 min, the quickest) to Machanka (135 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
Belarus on the map. Drag to spin the planet.
Belarusian pancakes of raw grated potato, squeezed dry and bound only by the potato's own starch returned to the bowl.
Belarusian dumplings whose unleavened flour dough is rolled thin enough to see the filling through it, sealed around raw minced meat so the juices stay inside.
A Belarusian pot of smoked pork in a sour cream gravy that is not eaten with a spoon but dipped into with yeast pancakes.
Copper documents three dishes from Belarus: Draniki, Kalduny and Machanka. Onion and egg each appear in more than one recipe. Not one needs an oven — they cook entirely on the hob. Between them they use 18 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 18 ingredients between them, of which 4 are shared by more than one dish. Sour cream and wheat flour the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 23 use sour cream and 12 use wheat flour. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Draniki is the quickest at 35 minutes. Machanka is the longest at 135 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 100 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
Draniki is rated easy — start there. The full method is on its recipe page, step by step, free to read.
Belarus is part of Eastern European.
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