About the dish
Draniki are considered the national dish of Belarus, a country famous for its love of potatoes. Their name comes from a word meaning to tear, a nod to grating the potatoes. The grated potato with onion, a little flour and egg is dropped by the spoonful into hot fat and fried into pancakes that are crisp outside and soft within. They are eaten hot with soured cream, sometimes with crackling or with machanka, a pork and sausage sauce, and some versions hide a meat or mushroom filling inside. Similar pancakes are known throughout Central and Eastern Europe – placki ziemniaczane in Poland, deruny in Ukraine.
Main ingredients
- potatoes
- onion
- egg
- flour
- oil
- soured cream
Belarus: Often served with machanka, a thick sauce of pork and sausage in soured cream.
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