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Bulbianaya Babka

Name: Bulbianaya Babka
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Belarus
Ingredients: 8 Potato; 150g Bacon; 1 Onion; 2 Egg; 100ml Milk; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; To taste Sour cream

Main Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Grated potato and bacon baked in a dish — Belarus's potato cake.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Babka is a Belarusian dish of grated potato mixed with fried bacon, onion, and egg and slowly baked in a dish or clay pot. It turns crisp on top and chewy inside. It's cut, topped with sour cream, and eaten with milk or kefir.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Belarusian home in winter, a potato cake in a square dish comes out of the oven, is cut, and topped with sour cream.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Potato 8
Bacon 150g
Onion 1
Egg 2
Milk 100ml
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Sour cream To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the bacon into strips, fry, add the chopped onion, and fry until golden.
Grate the potatoes and drain lightly.
Mix the potatoes with the bacon and onion and their fat, the egg, warm milk, salt, and pepper.
Pour into an oiled ovenproof dish and smooth the top.
Bake at 180°C for 1 hour and serve with sour cream.

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