The Belorussians have a soup meal at least once a day. Soups can be made on meat, fish, mushroom, vegetables or milk stocks.

How about a plate of Belorussian borstch? Nothing can warm your heart and stomach better than this traditional soup meal.
Ask Anastasia Web Marina to make it for you!

Ingredients:
2.6 qt water
10.5 oz ham bones
7 g beef
2.1 oz sausages
2 beetroots
5 potatoes
1 carrot
1 onion
2 tb tomato paste
0.7 oz pork fat
1 tb flour
2 ts sugar
2 ts 3% vinegar
4 ts sour cream
1 parsley root
salt

Place chopped ham bones and beef in cold water and bring them to boil. Froth with a skimmer and allow simmering over a slow fire. Half an hour before stock is done, add salt; drop in a cleaned and washed carrot, onion and a parsley root. Strain the stock.
Pry the shredded carrot, parsley and onion in pork fat. Add tomato paste and keep it over a slow fire for about 10 minutes. Add to the boiling stock cubed potatoes, boiled shredded beetroot, onion and roots browned slightly, flour blended with some stock and cook until it is done. Season the borshch with sugar and vinegar. Cut boiled meet and sausages into chunks and add them to the borshch.

Potato pancakes

The most popular meal among the Belorussians is traditional draniki, thick pancakes, made from shredded potatoes.
Your sweet Anastasia Web Marina from Minsk as a true daughter of Belorussian people will feed you with the best draniki you've ever had!

Ingredients:
10 potatoes
2 tb flour
8, 8 oz salted pork fat
2-3 onions
vegetable oil
salt

Grate raw potatoes; add wheat-flour, salt and mix. Fry the mixture like pancakes in a very hot frying-pan with butter. Serve the draniki with salted pork fat cracklings which are cooked as follows: slice the salted pork fat and fry over a slow fire until melting, then add the chopped onions and fry until a golden colour.

Every Belorussian family has its own, handed down from generation to generation recipes of pies. They vary greatly but one thing is for sure, the Belorussians put all their soul into them; no other dish reflects Belorussian national type better than traditional Belorussian pies.

Ask your Anastasia Web Marina from Minsk to make a good big pie for you and your friends!

Ingredients:
For 1 kg of the pie:
3 cupful flour
2 tb sugar
2 tb butter or margarine
2 eggs
15 g yeast
0.75 cupful milk or water

Prepare the leavened dough. Divide it into two pieces and roll each of them into a layer 3-4 cm thick. Put one of the layers on a griddle greased with butter, place the stuffing in the centre, and cover with another layer and pinch the edges.
The pie may be decorated with dough figures of any kind. To do that, roll the remaining part of the dough out thinly and cut it into small stars, diamonds, leaves, etc, then place these on top of the pie. Set aside the pie to rise and before baking brush with beaten egging, prick with a fork in several places and put in oven at 220 �C to 230 �C for 25-30 minutes.