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Mulgipuder

Name: Mulgipuder
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Estonia
Ingredients: 4 Potato; 80g Barley; 100g Bacon; 1 Onion; 20g Butter; 1 tsp Salt; 800ml Water

Side Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Potatoes and barley mashed and topped with bacon and onion sauce — a humble porridge from the Mulgi region.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mulgipuder is a traditional dish of the Mulgi region in southern Estonia: potatoes and pearl barley are boiled together and mashed, then topped with a sauce of crisp bacon and onion. Born as a filling meal for farmers, it remains a beloved Estonian home dish, often served with milk or buttermilk.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a farmhouse kitchen in southern Estonia, fried bacon and onion with their fat are poured over a wooden bowl of potato-and-barley porridge.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Potato 4
Barley 80g
Bacon 100g
Onion 1
Butter 20g
Salt 1 tsp
Water 800ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rinse the barley and boil with water for 20 minutes.
Add the peeled, cut potatoes and salt and boil 20 minutes until soft.
Drain, keeping a little of the cooking water, and mash into a porridge.
Fry the bacon strips and chopped onion in a frying pan.
Stir butter into the porridge, plate, and pour over the bacon and onion with their fat.

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