Belarusian cuisine is known for dishes made from local ingredients like potatoes, mushrooms, berries, and dairy. Popular meat dishes include pork, sausages, and fish from rivers. Soups are often dressed with sour cream, and jur is a traditional soup made from oatmeal stock that gives it a jelly-like texture. Common dishes also include potato pancakes filled with meat or fruit, and kisiel, a dessert of seasonal berries thickened with sugar and cornstarch.

1. Traditional Belarusian food

2. Belarusian dishes are typically based on local vegetables and cereals, especially:
potatoes, beetroot, mushrooms, berries, barley.
Potatoes deserve a special mention as they have formed the basis of many of the
dishes of Belarus for hundreds of years.
The following products are popular in Belarus:
pork, pork sausages and salami (kolbasy), salted pork lard, beef, chicken, river fish
such as trout, perch, carp, milk and dairy products as fresh cottage cheese (tvorog),
sour cream (smetana), fermented cheese (siyr)

3. It’s one of the oldest Belarusian meat dishes. But nowadays
there is not any exact recipe how to make it. This dish is made
of mutton. Take a big piece of mutton and bake it in the oven.

4. SOUP
Belarusian
cuisine is
known for rich
soup, often
dressed with
sour cream, as
well as cold
soup refreshing
for the hot
summer
periods.

6. JUR
Jur is a very special unusual Belarusian soup.
Its recipe goes back to the old traditional
Belarusian cuisine.The basis of the soup is
“oatmeal stock” that gives this soup a specific
jelly texture and a specific sourish taste.There
are several variants of this soup: Lenten, milk,
meat jur.To cook jur you need first to prepare
the basis.
“Tseja” Jur Basis
Take 150-200 g oatmeal flour (you can make
it by grinding oatmeal flakes) and add it into 1
lt of warm previously boiled water. Store it in
a non-metallic container in a warm place for
8-12 hours. It should get a sourish taste and
pleasant smell. Strain it to get rid of any lumps
or oatmeal flakes. Now you have the Jur basis
(tseja)

7. 0.5 lt Tseja (Jur basis);
1 lt water;
200 g meat mix (50 g ham + 50 pork sausage +
50 smoked brisket + 50 g of smoked pork loin
or lard);
1 onion;
2 turnips or rutabagas;
2 carrots;
0.5 parsley root;
4 garlic cloves;
1 tablespoonful of dill
Chop the meat finely . Cut turnips
and carrots into big chunks. Boil the
meat together with chopped onion,
turnips and carrots. When the
vegetables are ready, strain the
stock (take out the vegetables and
meat) and add the Jur Basis. Boil
them together, add salt, garlic
grated with salt and finely chopped
dill. Add the meat mix to the stock
again. Serve the boiled vegetables
separately with potatoes topped
with melted butter or lard.

9. “Fritters potato in Minsk”

10. For this recipe you will need:
 Potatoes - 12 pcs.

11. ground pork - 400g

12. vegetable oil - 3 tbsp
butter - 2 tbsp
Garlic - 5 cloves
herbs, pepper, salt - to taste

13. Ingredients:
• 800 g potatoes;
• 1 egg for potato mash and 1
egg for the filling;
• 100 g flour;
• 50 g butter;
• 400 g ground beef;
• 100 g onion;
• 200 g Sour cream;
• pepper;
• salt.

14.  Grate raw potatoes (to
prevent from darkening you
can add kefir), drain excess
juice, add flour, 1 egg and
mix.
 Ground the meet together
with onion and add egg, salt
and pepper.
 Make little pancakes from
potato mass and put inside
each some ground meet. Put
into the oven with butter
and brush with sour cream.
Bake till they become
brown golden.

15. Pancakes
Ingredients:
 one egg
 2 glasses of milk
 1,5 cup of flour
 1 teaspoon of
sugar
 4 tablespoons of
butter
 Salt
Instructions:
Mix eggs, sugar, salt,
flour and one glass
of milk until the
batter is smooth.
Add the remaining
milk and stir. Butter
the frying pan and
bake pancakes. It’s
better to bake them
on small frying pans.

16. “Dziady”

17. For this recipe you will need:
Egg yolks,
sugar

18. Melted butter
Salt

19. Wheat flour
Yeast

20.  Milk

21. Apple jam
Raisins
Dates

22. Kisiel
Kisiel, a popular dessert, consists of berries
thickened with sugar and cornstarch.You can
use any seasonal berries, although cranberries,
strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and
gooseberries are the most traditional.The
amount of sugar needed depends on how
sweet your fruit is. Kisiel is wonderful over
vanilla ice cream.
Strawberry Kisiel is easy to
make and very tasty.The sweet dessert
remains light and refreshing.
Ingredients:
1 lb fresh strawberries (or other seasonal
berries)
4 cups water
4Tbsp cornstarch
sugar to taste (between 1/2 and 1 cup is
about right)

23. Instructions
1. Puree strawberries with sugar in a blender or
food processor. Pour into a pot and heat over
medium.

24. 2. Meanwhile, add a little water to the
cornstarch and combine, making a slurry.

25. 3. Pour cornstarch slurry into the strawberry mixture and heat up,
stirring frequently.When the mixture thickens into a pudding-like
consistency, begin to pour in the water, a little at a time. Do not add
more water until the previous addition is mixed in evenly or you’ll get
lumps. Continue until all of the water is added. Check for sweetness
one more time.Add extra sugar if desired.

26. 4. Heat the mixture until a few bubbles pop to the
surface. Leave on the heat for a minute longer and
then remove.
5. Ladle into serving bowls and cover with plastic
wrap, pressing it up against the Kisiel (this prevents
a skin from forming). Chill for at least an hour. Serve
as is, or pour over vanilla ice cream.