Draniki are small potato pancakes with grated potatoes stuffed or without it. They are considered one of the most reputed Belarus’ national dishes. Draniki’s main ingredients are grated potatoes and onions though some recipes also include meat, bacon, mushrooms and cheese.

Machanka is both a soup and a stew that consists of homemade sausages, bouillon and thick pancakes which are dipped into the finished bouillon. This traditional dish is typically served on Maslenitsa, a holiday of pagan origins that is still celebrated today in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

Kletski is famous Belarusian dish, boiled flour balls filled with meat. This dish is similar to Polish pierogi and Russian pelmeni, but kletski are bigger and ball-shaped. Kletski can be eaten on their own with roasted onions and sour cream or can be added to soup.

Zurek , White Barszcz Zurek (Sour Bread Soup), similar to the West Slavic fermented cereal soups is the most humble of all Polish soups, and at the same time the most exotic, at least to the foreigner. Zrek is tradtionally made with white sausage, smoked meat, and sour liquid made from fermented...

Gołąbki is the Polish name of a dish popular in cuisines of Central Europe, made from boiled cabbage leaves wrapped around a filling of minced pork or beef, chopped onions, and rice or barley. Gołąbki is the plural form of gołąbek, the diminutive form of gołąb, referring to the roll's shape.

Pierogi is a Polish dumpling. The Piorogi dumplings are made of thinly rolled-out dough filled with a variety of fillings. The most popular fillings are meat, sauerkraut and mushrooms, seasonal fruit, buckwheat, sweet cottage cheese or boiled potatoes with fried onions (called Russian dumplings).

Flaki or flaczki is a traditional Polish meat stew. It can be an acquired taste, but is one of the many soups that are an important part of the Polish cooking. Along with bigos, żurek, and pierogi, it is one of the most notable specialities in Polish cuisine.

Bigos, often translated into English as hunter's stew, is a Polish dish of chopped meat of various kinds stewed with sauerkraut and shredded fresh cabbage. It is served hot and can be enriched with vegetables, spices or wine.

Zupa Szczawiowa (sorrel soup) is a popular Polish recipe in the springtime when sorrel is at its most tender. Sorrel soup is made in many different ways. In Poland traditionally, sorrel soup is garnished with hard-cooked eggs.

Zrazy Zawijane is the traditional polish Beef Roulade in Sour Cream Sauce. The meat dish is consisting of thin beef slices which are wrapped around a filling or rolled around any of a variety of fillings, browned and braised until tender.

Kotlet schabowy, a popolar Polish dish is a Polish variety of pork breaded cutlet coated with breadcrumbs similar to Viennese schnitzel or Italian Cotoletta and South American Milanesa but made of loin, or with pork chop.

Gulášová polievka is Goulash soup Slovakian style , this meal is very popular in Slovakia. There are two types of goulash – a thick sauce eaten with dumplings, and the goulash soup.

Mäsové guľky is a Slovak-style meatball dish made with minced meat enclosed in potato dough, served over steamed cabbage, and topped with roasted onion and spring onion.

Bryndzové halušky is potato ‘dumplings’ are covered with sheep cheese, similar to soft feta, and topped with a good dose of bacon and bacon drippings. Bryndzové halušky is a comforting combination of smooth dumplings, crispy bacon, and salty cheese.

Bryndzove pirohy are dumplings filled with potatoes and the special Slovak sheep cheese bryndza, then slather sour cream on top, and finish it off again with pieces of fried bacon. This dish is often accompanied by a glass of žinčica, Slovakian sheep’s milk.

Vyprážaný rezeň is fried breaded pork cutlets which are different varieties of schnitze. A thin slice of pork is first tenderised and then fried with breadcrumbs. A mayonnaise-based potato salad is often served as a side dish.

Zivanska is a popular amping meal in Slovakia . It's pork, potatoes, onions, carrots, peppers, and bacon wrapped in aluminum foil. The wrapped meal is placed in the hot coals and left there for an hour to cook. It is often baked in the fire pit during camping trips.

Smažený vepřový rízek is a hearty Czech dish. It is essentially the Czech version of a pork schnitzel. This flavorsome Czech dish is served with lemon, fresh parsley, boiled or mashed potatoes, or potato salad.

Pecena Kachna is the Bohemian-style roast duck served with dumplings, potatoes, or bread and braised red cabbage. The recipe uses caraway, garlic, salt, and pepper for the duck. This is a classic holiday dish in Czech Republic.

Bramboráky are the traditional Czech potato pancakes. They are Czech food loved by everyday people, that’s for sure.The dish is made from shredded potatoes, crushed garlic, milk, cumin, marjoram, some flour, eggs, salt, and pepper.