The Belarusian cuisine is a variety of meat and poultry dishes (pyachysta, kumpyachok, machanka, vereshchaka, tushanka, smazhanka), all sorts of home-made sausages, salty salo, byproduct dishes (vantrabyanka, rubtsy – pork belly stuffed with meat and buckwheat porridge), smoked meat. It is also rich in fish dishes, usually river fish such as sturgeon, trout, eel and carp. Belarusians used to make yushka, dumplings, salt and smoked fish. Common dairy products included curd cheese (made of cow and goat milk), sour cream, and butter. Milk is a regular ingredient, including all kinds of soups, porridges, mokanka.
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