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In Russian, Belarusian, Lithuanian, Polish, and Ukrainian
cuisines, syrniki (Russian: сырники) are fried quark cheese pancakes, garnished
with sour cream, jam, honey, or apple sauce. The cheese mixture may contain
raisins for extra flavor. In Russia they are also known as tvorozhniki
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Left: Syrniki served
with sour cream. |
Syrniki are made from full-fat, creamy cottage cheese, mixed with flour, egg,
and sugar, sometimes adding vanilla essence. The soft mixture is shaped into
cakes, which are fried, generally in vegetable oil. The outsides become crispy,
and the center is warm and creamy. They are sweet and served for breakfast or
dessert. Their simplicity and relative lack of expensive ingredients makes them
very popular in Eastern Europe.
The name syrniki is derived from the word сыр in Russian
(transliteration: syr), meaning "cheese". Although the modern meaning of the
word сыр (syr) in Russian is hard yellow cheese, the original word in Slavic
languages stood for soft white cheese (similar to today's
quark cheese).
Thus, the word syrniki, derived from the old meaning of syr, came to designate
pancakes made from soft white cheese.
Try our recipes of
plain syrniki and
syrniki with raisins.
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