Potato pie from Hutsulshchyna: a recipe for buryshnyk from Yevhen Klopotenko

Buryshnyk is a pie made of potatoes and corn grits with a sauce of butter and salted cheese. In the old days, boryshnyk was a substitute for bread for Hutsuls in the meadows.

Ingredients:

- 1 kg of potatoes

- 70 g of finely ground corn grits (+30 g for French shirt)

- 15 g of wheat flour

- 2 eggs

- 100 g of butter 82.5% (+20 g for French shirt)

- 100 g of hard cheese

- salt to taste

1. Boil and cool the potatoes.

2. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Prepare the butter: it should be at room temperature.

3. Peel the potatoes and grate them on a coarse grater into a bowl.

4. Beat 2 eggs into the potatoes, add wheat flour and finely ground corn grits. Add salt to taste and stir.

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5. Grease the bottom and sides of a 22-cm-diameter baking dish with butter and sprinkle with corn grits. Pour out the excess grits.

6. Put the potato mixture in the baking dish. Smooth with a spatula and make strips with a fork. Put in the oven for 25-30 minutes at 200 degrees.

Sauce:

1. Melt the butter and cheese in a saucepan. Stir, and remove from heat.

2. Serve the borage with the sauce.

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