How to pronounce Bankukha

Bankukha is written банкуха where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /banˈkuxa/. In plain English letters that is ban-KOO-kha, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Bankukha?

Bankukha is a dessert of Belarus. Where it comes from: Grodno region (Svislach district). People usually eat it on festive days. Its main ingredients are egg and wheat & flour. It tastes sweet.

Where Bankukha comes from

Bankukha is one of 11 signature dishes of Belarus on this map.

• Potato babka бабка · Main dish · Grodno and the west

  Potato babka is a baked dish of grated potatoes, eggs and onions mixed with pieces of smoked or fried bacon, and sometimes sausage, cooked in a pot in the oven until crisp on the outside and soft inside.

• Draniki дранікі · Main dish · All Belarus

  Draniki are thick pancakes of grated raw potato, sometimes mixed with onion, fried in oil or lard until crisp and brown, and eaten hot with sour cream.

• Kalduny калдуны · Main dish · All Belarus

  Kalduny are dumplings of wheat dough, or in some versions of grated potato, stuffed with minced meat, mushrooms or curd cheese, boiled and served with butter, sour cream or fried onions.

• Verashchaka верашчака · Main dish · All Belarus

  Verashchaka, more often called machanka, is a thick stew of fried pieces of salo, sausage and pork ribs with sharp seasonings, thickened with flour and stewed in the oven; dishes of this kind, with local differences, are known all over Belarus.

• Krambambula крамбамбуля · Drink · All Belarus

  Krambambula is a Belarusian alcoholic drink of vodka with honey and spices, drunk either cold or hot; many recipes exist, and commercial versions are made as well.

• Khaladnik халаднік · Soup & stew · All Belarus

  Khaladnik is a cold summer soup of beets, sorrel or both, a traditional dish of Belarusian cooking with roots in the time of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; it is also known in Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Ukrainian cooking.

Food of Belarus

Dishes like Bankukha in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Bankukha:

• Sękacz · Dessert · Suwałki region (Podlasie), Poland

  Sękacz is a spit cake: a batter of butter, eggs, flour, sugar and cream is poured, layer after layer, onto a wooden roller or long cone that turns on a spit over an open fire, so that the cake grows in rings around it.

• Šakotis · Dessert · Lithuania

  Šakotis, "branched" or tree cake, is a tall, hollow spit cake and a national Lithuanian cake; it is shared with the neighbouring parts of Poland, where it is called sękacz and appears on this map under Poland, and of western Belarus.

• Plinse · Dessert · Lusatia (Brandenburg), Germany

  A Plinse is the pancake of eastern central Germany: a round, pan-sized batter cake of eggs, salt, milk and flour, fried golden brown on both sides.

• Gundel pancake Gundel-palacsinta · Dessert · Budapest, Hungary

  The Gundel pancake is a thin Hungarian crêpe filled with ground walnuts, rum and raisins and served under a dark chocolate sauce made with egg yolk, cream and cocoa.