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Draniki

Name: Draniki
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Belarus
Ingredients: 6 Potato; 1/2 Onion; 1 Egg; 2 tbsp All-Purpose Flour; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; To taste Sunflower oil; To taste Sour cream

Main Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Grated potato fried crisp and served with sour cream — Belarus's national dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Draniki are potato pancakes considered Belarus's national dish: raw potatoes are grated, mixed with onion, salt, and a little flour or egg, and fried crisp in oil. Belarus is known for its very high potato consumption, and it's said to have hundreds of potato dishes. They're eaten with sour cream or machanka.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Belarusian farmhouse kitchen, golden potato pancakes are lifted from an iron pan onto a plate with a generous dollop of white sour cream.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Potato 6
Onion 1/2
Egg 1
All-Purpose Flour 2 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Sunflower oil To taste
Sour cream To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Finely grate the potatoes and onion and pour off some of the liquid that collects.
Add the egg, flour, salt, and pepper and mix.
Heat plenty of oil in a frying pan, drop in spoonfuls of batter, and spread thin.
Fry until crisp and golden on both sides.
Serve hot with sour cream.

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