A significant part of the national Belarusian cuisine make dishes from grated potatoes, pancakes, dumplings, witches, potato cakes, grandmother, Drach, stewed potatoes with meat and (or) fungi and other. In this case, there are several ways to rubbing potato and potato mass produce:
tarkovannaya (raw grated potatoes, after rubbing not ottsezhenny and used together with the segregated juice); klinkovannaya (raw grated potatoes, after rubbing ottsezhenny) cooked pounded (mashed boiled potatoes).
Potatoes are also used in the preparation of certain salads. Natural conditions determine the presence in Belarus Belarusian cuisine mushrooms, berries, fish and various vegetables.
Among the widespread popular meat dishes bigos - meat stew with cabbage, dumplings - large potato dumplings with meat or mushroom stuffing, sorcerers - pancakes stuffed with meat. Also populyarnyzrazy, sirloin, saltisons, machanka, cracklings, meat pie smazhnya (smazhenka), a variety of sausages (gut kindyuk et al.), Cured and smoked meat (Belarus. Vendlyanina) knuckle. With meat dishes are served razlichnyesousy. For example, cream sauce with fried onions on lard and cracklings, cumin and black pepper.
Popular soups: ear Jour, mushroom soup, pea soup, and others.