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Belarusian Recipes


Potato Pancake  Pumpkin Pancake  Fish  Ravioli  Stuffed Dumplings  Stuffed Apples

 

Draniki - Potato pancakes

Source: http://www.tsjernobylkinderen.nl/en/recepten.html

Potatoes
Onion
2- 3 T Flour
Salt as you like it
Egg
Garlic

Rasp potatoes and onion. Add other ingredients, mix well; it should keep more or less its liquidity. Heat frying pan (possibly two). Put mixture into frying pan using a sauce-spoon and fry it. Put pancakes on dish. Could, when necessary, be reheated later. Delicious with sour cream (half cook's cream and sour cream (crême fraîche)) (with thanks to Ria Kodde). Variation: mix small pieces of meat through the dough (fry meat beforehand).

Pumpkin Aladdzi (Thick Pancakes)

Source: http://txt.knihi.com/kuchnia/cuisine.html#9

1 kg Pumpkin
3 Eggs
1 c Flour
2 T Butter
1/3 t Household Soda
2 T Sugar
Fat
Salt

Peel the pumpkin, boil and drain water. Mash the pumpkin and add butter. Then combine with sugar, eggs, flour, household soda, add the salt to taste and mix. Fry as ordinary aładdzi.

Double Baked Bread with Fish and Cheese.

Source: http://www.tsjernobylkinderen.nl/en/recepten.html

French bread
Sardines
Rasped Cheese
Garlic
Mayonnaise
Oil

Mix sardines, cheese, garlic and mayonnaise. Cut French bread to slices (ca. 1.5 – 2.5 cm). Fry two sides in oil. When second side is down, add some of the mixture to the upper side. Let bread cool.

 

Russian Ravioli

Source: http://chat.amarillonet.com/stories/093098/foo_recipes.shtml

Makes 12 to 15 servings.

1 ½ lbs. Pork
1 ½ lbs. Beef
5 lbs. White Flour
3 c Water
2 large Onions
Salt and Pepper to taste
8 c Mushroom Broth
2 T Butter
dash Parsley

Grind two meats together. Add finely chopped onions to meat along with salt and pepper. To make pasta dough, mix flour with water. Roll out dough onto lightly floured surface. Use small glass for pasta shape. Put one tablespoon of meat mixture on pasta and fold dough over. Add spices and salt with water. Boil 10 minutes in mushroom broth. Ravioli is done when it floats. Add butter and parsley just before serving.

Potato Klocki Stuffed with Meat

Source: http://txt.knihi.com/kuchnia/cuisine.html#9

8 Potatoes
2 Eggs
4 T melted Fat
3 T Flour
3 T Bread Crumbs
4 T Sour Cream
Salt

For stuffing:
400 g Pork
2 Onions
1 T Butter
Pepper & Salt

Grate the raw potatoes, squeeze dry, add the eggs, salt, and mix. Shape the mixture into small balls, fill them with meat stuffing, roll in flour dip in the beaten egg, then toss in breadcrumbs and fry slightly. Transfer to a pot, pour over with melted fat and stew until done. Pour oven with sour cream before serving.

Apples, Bierascie Manner

Source: http://txt.knihi.com/kuchnia/cuisine.html#9

8 Apples
2 T Sugar
1 T Butter
1 t Potato Flour
0.5 c Milk
1 Egg
1 T Raisins
1 T Castor Sugar
Cinnamon

Scoop the cores out of the apples; fill the hollowed apples with sweet mixture. Make the sweet mixture as follows: pour the dissolved potato flour in boiling milk, bring to a boil again, add the washed raisins, sugar, butter. Then cool, add the eggs and cinnamon and mix well. Place the apples on a griddle, add some water and bake.

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