14:47, 24 Jul 2024, author: Ermakova M.

Mulgypuder City Style

Name: Mulgypuder City Style
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Estonian
Ingredients: Potatoes - 500 g; Pearl barley - 100 g; Salt - to taste; Pork - 300 g; Onions - 200 g; Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp.

Estonian dinner dish. Pearl barley and potato porridge, served with fried onions and pork belly. Very filling and unusual dish!

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Mulgipuder is an Estonian dish, also called Mulgi porridge, Latvian porridge or half-wool porridge. Each name has a story associated with it, but the recipe for the dish does not change. Mulgipuder is a puree of potatoes and pearl barley, which is most often served with fried onions and pork belly. Yes, you heard right! It is difficult to imagine how Estonians came up with the idea of combining potatoes and pearl barley, because you would never dream of such a thing! But it turns out that this is how a new product - potatoes - was introduced into the daily diet of peasants to solve the problem of hunger. Today we will prepare mulgipuder city style. This dish is perfect for a hearty dinner after a hard day at work, even a small amount of puree with pork can overeat. So, in the end, I get about four modest portions. By the way, the dish is traditionally served with hot milk or warm sour cream - probably because neither milk, nor butter, nor other dairy additives that make the puree tastier are added to the porridge.

So, for the mulgipuder, I took potatoes (it is better to use starchy varieties), pearl barley, lean pork (any part will do) and onions. Of the spices for the puree, I only take salt, since no seasonings have ever been added. But for the pork, I could not resist and sprinkled special spices, it turned out great! For frying, you will need vegetable oil. And do not forget about the water for cooking the porridge! Let's get started!

Mulgypuder City Style

Кухня: Estonian, ужин, калории: 156, время приготовления: 00:30

Ингредиенты

Potatoes - 500 g

Pearl barley - 100 g

Salt - to taste

Pork - 300 g

Onions - 200 g

Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp.

Рецепт

1. Fry the pearl barley in a dry frying pan until golden brown.

2. Peel the potatoes, fill with water, add the pearl barley and put on the fire. The water should completely cover the contents of the pan. After the liquid boils, add salt to taste. Cook over low heat under a lid for 90 minutes.

3. Meanwhile, prepare the pork. Rinse the meat and cut into small cubes.

4. Peel the onion and cut into half rings.

5. Put the pork in a dry frying pan and melt the fat, if any. Then pour in the vegetable oil, add spices if desired, or just salt.

6. Also put the onion. Stir.

7. Fry for 5 minutes - until done. The meat should brown, the onion - become soft and golden.

8. Meanwhile, the potatoes and pearl barley are ready. In 90 minutes, the cereal has swelled considerably, the potatoes have become soft, and there is very little water left in the pan.

9. Remove from heat and mash the contents with a masher until smooth.

10. The city-style mulgi powder is ready! Place the puree on a plate, make a depression in the center, and top the dish with aromatic fried pork and onions.

11. Enjoy!