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Verashchaka

Name: Verashchaka
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Belarus
Ingredients: 500g Pork spare ribs; 2 Sausage; 2 Onion; 2 tbsp All-Purpose Flour; 2 Bay leaf; 1/2 tsp Black Pepper; 1 tsp Salt; 1 tbsp Sunflower oil; 500ml Water; 150g (for blini) All-purpose flour; 300ml Milk; 1 Egg

Main Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Pork spareribs and sausage braised into a thick sauce for dipping bliny — a traditional Belarusian dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Verashchaka is a traditional Belarusian dish: pork spareribs and sausage are browned, then braised with onion into a sauce thickened with flour. Like machanka, it's eaten by dipping bliny (crêpes) into it, and it graces family tables in winter.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Belarusian home in winter, a clay pot of thick meat stew sits on the table as stacked bliny are torn by hand and dipped in.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Pork spare ribs 500g
Sausage 2
Onion 2
All-Purpose Flour 2 tbsp
Bay leaf 2
Black Pepper 1/2 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Sunflower oil 1 tbsp
Water 500ml
All-purpose flour 150g (for blini)
Milk 300ml
Egg 1

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the spareribs apart, season with salt and pepper, and brown in oil; brown the sausages too.
Add the chopped onion, sauté, and sprinkle with flour.
Add water and bay leaf, cover, and simmer 1 hour.
Cook bliny from flour, milk, egg, and a pinch of salt.
Serve with the thick sauce and the bliny alongside.

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