Belarusian Food

                              Belarusian Food

In Belarusian cuisine there are a lot of tasty and healthy meat, fish and vegetable dishes, desserts and beverages. Traditionally, soups are the main dish of the main meal of the day - dinner. The Slavs have always considered that the basic dish should be hot and liquid. Therefore, any soup - cabbage soup, rassolnik, zatirka is the speciality of our cuisine. However, not only soups are present on the dinner table of the Belarusians. A very important vegetable (which is as important as bread) for every Belarusian is potato. How many delicious and yummy dishes it’s possible to cook from it. These are very famous potato pancakes, babka, patties, and cheesecakes with different stuffing, baked pudding, dumplings, kolduny (or potato sorcerers) and many other dishes. Baked or boiled, fried or mashed potatoes are also very good for garnishing. If potato is served with thinnly-cut salted pork fat with several meat layers, and accompanied by crisp pickles or sour-crout, you can’t help eating the dish at a sitting.

In addition, Belarusian cuisine is well known for its pastry. I think in no other country of the world there are such amazingly tasty, airy and crisp pies, cakes, patties, rolls, doghnuts and pancakes.

Moreover, Belarusian people like to eat porridge very much. The traditional Belarusian porridge is prepared in the oven. The Slavs are able to cook more than thirty different types of porridge from seven different grains. As a rule, it is eaten in the morning.

The traditional Belarusian drinks are kvas, cider and sbiten. Sbiten is one of the most ancient Slavic drinks. It consists of water, honey, herbs and spices. These beverages are very healthy and quench thirst well. Sbiten, for instance, warms you when you are cold. It’s so pity, that today they are not used, and instead of them we drink tea, coffee or Coca-Cola.