Clever Ukrainian hostess shows how to fry real "Bendery", cooler than simple pancakes

Bendery is a traditional Ukrainian dish, the recipe of which has not changed for decades. Pancakes with stuffing of minced meat in the shape of a triangle were prepared in the city of Bendery in the second half of the twentieth century. Despite the fact that the birthplace of the dish is Transnistria, bendery has become popular in Western Ukraine. Today the editors will tell how Ukrainian pancakes with minced potatoes are prepared.



Unlike pancakes, filling for benderies should be raw if pancakes are prepared exclusively with minced meat. Ukrainian housewives prepare benderies with different fillings: you can use cottage cheese with sugar or minced meat, minced potatoes or mushrooms with onions. Ready pancakes can be eaten immediately, they turn out very hearty. But, since cooking time will take at least an hour, it is better to cook this delicious dish for the future and store in the freezer.



Bendery with lard and potatoes was my grandfather’s favorite dish. Grandma pampered her husband every weekend with fresh benderies, even when there was no meat in the house. She roasted the lard in the pan to a crispy crust and mixed the squarks with potatoes, and made the pancakes so thin that they could see through.



The ingredients

• 300g minced meat
• 400g potatoes
• 150g onions
• 600 ml of milk
• 200g flour
• 0.5 tbsp sugar
• 0.5 tsp flour
• 1 egg
• 50ml vegetable oil

Preparation

1. Mix the egg with sugar and salt, pour milk and add flour with vegetable oil. Mix the dough for thin pancakes. Roast the pancakes in the pan.
2. Peel the potatoes and cut them into pieces. Boil the root vegetable in salted water until ready. Then make mashed potatoes.
   
   
   
   
3. Onions shallowly cut with a knife and roast in a frying pan with vegetable oil until golden.
4. To the onion, lay out minced poultry, beef or pork and roast until ready for 25 minutes.
5. Mix mashed meat with minced meat, salty and peppery bendery stuffing.
   
   
   
   Peels
6. Start pancakes and make triangles out of them. In a hot pan with a small amount of butter or vegetable oil, roast the bendery until a golden crust on both sides.
   
   
   
   To soak up the remnants of the oil, lay out the benderies on paper towels. Be sure to eat pancakes with meat while they are still warm. Benderies are usually dipped in egg clay with milk to make the crust crunchy. But you don't have to do that. Serve benderies with tomato sauce or sour cream.
   
   
   
   If you want to prepare benderies with minced potatoes, apply a thin layer of minced meat on half a pancake and fold the benderic four times, thus forming a triangle. Roast the minced benderies to ruddy crust on medium heat. The process of cooking benderies can be accelerated if you prepare a stack of pancakes in advance. If you want to make a stock of benderies in the freezer, don't fry pancakes before freezing. Have you ever eaten minced benderies?