Banosh

Prepare a delicious, hearty, nutritious banosh! Banosh or banush is a dish of Ukrainian Hutsul cuisine, without which no national feast can do. In his homeland, a festival is even held in his honor, and the name came from the surname Banosh. The ingredients of the dish were available in every house, since sheep and cows contained almost everything, so there was sour cream and sheep cheese. Traditional banosh has several types: with pork rinds, sheep cheese or porcini mushrooms, but the basis is the same – it's corn groats and sour cream. It is sour cream, which gives a characteristic sourness, in this dish it can not be replaced with cream. If the sour cream is very thick, you can dilute it with water or milk. Cooking is simple!

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

Corn groats

100

Sour cream

500

Cheese

200

Pork fillet (instead of brisket, smoked bacon, neck or cheek may be suitable)

200

Sugar

Salt

0.5

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 29 % 10 g

Fats 43 % 15 g

Carbohydrates 29 % 10 g

243 kcal

GI: 20 / 0 / 80

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 40 min

Step 1:
Ingredients.
Step 2:
Bring sour cream to a boil in a thick-walled bowl, then add sugar and salt.
Step 3:
Then, stirring constantly, you need to pour corn grits.
Step 4:
Turn down the heat and continue stirring until ready.
Step 5:
The finished banosh will lag behind the bottom and walls of the dishes. Characteristic oil droplets will appear on the surface of the porridge.
Step 6:
Chop the pork belly and fry in a frying pan until golden brown.
Step 7:
Serve the jar hot. Sprinkle fried pork belly and pieces of cheese on top. But do not mix! Everyone will take as much as they need for themselves. Also, cheese and brisket can be spread on a dish not from above, but in two piles side by side. Enjoy your meal!

Although banosh is an unpretentious dish, even in its preparation a whole ritual is observed. The very first rule is that only men can cook banosh. The most delicious banosh is obtained when cooking high in the mountains in a cauldron on a real fire, so that the banosh is soaked in smoke.
Sour cream is preferable – homemade, it needs to be pre-infused for 3 days in a cold place.
When cooking, you need to stir the banosh in one direction and always with a wooden spoon.
At the moment when the banosh is ready, it will follow the wooden spoon, there is even such an expression "banosh dances".
The jar can be liquid or thicker, as anyone likes, for a liquid jar, you can reduce the amount of cereals or additionally dilute sour cream with milk.