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Maslenitsa with an accent
At USUE, a week-long celebration of Maslenitsa is in full swing. Today, USUE international students were taught how to make pancakes at the master class Gulyai, Maslenitsa (Make Fun, Maslenitsa)!
Over 30 USUE students from Turkey, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Cameroon, Senegal, Guinea, and Mali watched with bated breath how the liquid of eggs, flour, milk and sugar turns into ruddy thin griddle cakes. Foreigners were taught to make pancakes by Irina Kapralova, Vice President of the Culinary Association of the Sverdlovsk region, the chef of one of the Yekaterinburg restaurants. She said:
“I am glad that USUE international students have an interest in making traditional Russian pancakes: they learned how to cook them with care and with delight. For us, this is a familiar pastry, but for visitors from other continents, this is an unusual dish in the form of a thin dough sheet. I think I’ve managed to disclose a recipe for a new dish. Last November, I already met with international students of USUE. At that time, I told them how to bake pies.”
Besides the key ingredients, they added spinach to the batter to give the pancakes an unusual color and add health benefits.
“Now spinach is considered to be the most important vegetable for maintaining health. It contains vitamins, minerals, and dietary fibers. They normalize the work of the gastrointestinal tract. Spinach allows pancakes, which are considered rather heavy food, to be digested better and faster,” said Olga Chugunova, head of the USUE Department of Nutrition Technology.
USUE international students especially enjoyed to stuff pancakes with filling of cabbage with egg and cottage cheese. After tasting, they emphasized the dish turned out to be very satisfying: a couple of pancakes can easily replace a full meal.
“I came to study at USUE from Egypt. We make similar griddle cakes with meat. But Russian pancakes are different! I tried them today for the first time. It was a discovery for me they add not only minced meat but also cabbage and cottage cheese. You can turn them into a dessert by serving with condensed milk. It’s tasty! And most importantly, it is satisfying!” said a student of the USUE Preparatory Faculty Ahmed Salem.
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