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Machanka

Name: Machanka
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Belarus
Ingredients: 300g Pork belly; 3 Sausage; 1 Onion; 200g Sour cream; 1 tbsp All-Purpose Flour; 1 Bay leaf; A pinch Black Pepper; 1/2 tsp Salt; 300ml Water; 150g (for blini) All-purpose flour; 300ml Milk; 1 Egg

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Pork and sausage stewed in sour cream and eaten by dipping pancakes — a traditional Belarusian dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Machanka, meaning 'something to dip,' is a traditional Belarusian dish: pork, sausage, and bacon are stewed with onion in a sour cream sauce, and pieces of bliny (crêpes) or draniki are torn off and dipped in. A rich dish long made in villages for celebrations and guests.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Belarusian village home, the family dips rolled-up pancakes into a creamy meat stew in a clay pot.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Pork belly 300g
Sausage 3
Onion 1
Sour cream 200g
All-Purpose Flour 1 tbsp
Bay leaf 1
Black Pepper A pinch
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 300ml
All-purpose flour 150g (for blini)
Milk 300ml
Egg 1

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the flour, milk, egg, and a pinch of salt and cook thin bliny in a frying pan.
Cube the pork, slice the sausage, and brown in a pot.
Add the chopped onion, sauté, and sprinkle with flour.
Add water, bay leaf, pepper, and salt and simmer 20 minutes.
Add the sour cream, simmer 5 minutes, and serve with the bliny.

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