Topics for discussion: Tell your new friend about Belarusian national dishes.

BELARUSIAN FOOD

Sample 1

          Belarusian national food has a long history. Many dishes came to our time from the remote past. The most popular  ingredient of the Belarusian national food is potato. Potato is at the Belarusian table every season and in any state - fried, boiled, baked, stuffed. Potato is an ingredient for soups, and salads, and pies. Dishes out of grated potatoes are pancakes, babka, draniki, kolduny and kletski.

        Other common ingredients are pork and mushrooms. 

        Our dishes are rare hot and spicy - usually they don't have much pepper, parsley, garlic.

Babka is a national Belarusian dish made from grated potatoes and dressed with fried bacon, onion and meat. The dish is baked in the oven and served with sour cream and milk.

However, certainly, potato is not the only one that the Belarusians eat. Carrot, cabbage, peas, mushrooms, berries, river fish, as well as  milk foods are also widely used.

         What the Belarusians are crazy about is lard or iced fat (сало) as an ingredient for many dishes.  Also the Belarusians eat pork, beef and chicken.

           Traditional meat dishes are vereshchaka (or machanka) - a special sauce for different dishes. 

        Soups of the Belarusian food can be hot or cold. Hot soups are often meaty, with vegetables and grains. Kholodnik and okroshka are traditional cold soups.

           The most common drinks in Belarus are kwas, kisel, birch juice and so on.

Belarusian national food is delicious nad healthy.