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 Olga 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.

Chicken cutlets

Are you hungry? Have you had dinner yet? Wanna try Belorussian chicken cutlets? Anastasia Web assures you Olga from Minsk makes them so yummy!

Ingredients:
12.3 oz chicken fillet
2.8 oz cheese
2 tb mayonnaise
4 ea garlic cloves
1 ea egg
2.8 oz dried and finely ground bread-crumbs
4 tb butter
salt

Filling: add finely chopped garlic to ground cheese and stir in mayonnaise. Divide chicken fillet into small and large pieces, salt them. Spread the filling on a large piece, put a small fillet piece in the centre and fold into half-moons with a little piece inside. Soak in the beaten egg and roll in dried and finely ground bread-crumbs. Fry on the pan, until light brown. Then cook until soft and tender in the well heated oven.

Cranberry jelly

Traditional Belorussian beverages are myadukha, berezavik, kvas, beer, kisiel and many others.
In the good old times when Soviet people had no idea about Coca-cola, they drank refreshing and delicious home-made kisiel.

Anastasia Web Olga from Minsk can give you the picture of what it tasted like.

Ingredients:
3.5 - 4.2 oz cranberry
3-4 tb sugar
2-3 tb potato flour

Sort the cranberries, wash them in hot water and mash finely with a spoon or pestle. Add some water and press through a sieve. Cover the berry pulp with 4-5 times the quantity of water; bring to a boil and strain. Cool part of the juice and dissolve potato flour in it. Prepare syrup from the other part of the juice by adding sugar and bringing to a boil. Then pour in the dissolved potato flour, bring to a boil again, cool and add the juice. Pour out the prepared kisiel, sprinkle with sugar and cool.