The Pinsk official's words made many recall the recipe for the most delicious dish. "A flashback to childhood!"
After watching a video about the vice-mayor of Pinsk, Dmitry Polkhovsky, who named "tovkanytsa" as one of the most delicious dishes that a tourist should try in the Pinsk region, people began to recall how this dish is prepared in their area and clarify the recipes.
"Tovkanitsa is not just mashed potatoes!"
"Tovkanitsa.... Grandma always made it when I came to visit," one viewer recalls with nostalgia. And her comment was supported by almost 550 others with likes.
"My grandmother also called it that – tovkanitsa. She's from Ivanovo," adds another.
"Mine is from Moldova. Ivanovo district," the author of the message clarifies.
Viewers recall different ways of preparing and serving this dish:
"Tovkanytsia... One word brought me back to my childhood. On vacation at my grandmother's in the Ivanovo district. It's not just mashed potatoes, it's MASHED POTATOES FRIED WITH PORK SCRAPS AND ONIONS. The smell of this dish is extraordinary."
"I got a flashback to childhood from the word 'tovkanytsia'. That's what my grandmother called it. Tovkanytsia with cracklings, onions, and a mug of sour milk."
"With borscht made from sauerkraut with dried mushrooms, it's just a bomb. There's nothing tastier, perhaps."
"We live closer to Bereza in the Brest region. And for us, tovkanitsa is mashed potatoes with fried bacon and onions. Very tasty."
"Tovkanytsia is boiled mashed potatoes with cracklings and fried onions. You can sprinkle fresh dill on top."
From the oven - the most delicious
Viewers claim that cooking the dish in the oven gives it a special flavor:
"And not just mashed potatoes, but then baked in the oven with fried toppings. It's very tasty."
"Tovkanitsa is not just mashed potatoes! Mashed potatoes with cracklings and onions in the oven. And a ruddy crust forms on top. Mmmm, delicious."
"Boiled potatoes were seasoned with fried bacon with cracklings and onions. They made mashed potatoes, which they put in a large, deep clay bowl with a lid and let it simmer in the oven... The taste of childhood, Berezovsky district."
Many claim that oven-baked tovkanitsa is the most delicious dish:
"It's so delicious when you take it out of the oven, and with sauerkraut."
"The most delicious food is tovkanitsa. Especially from a standing oven. It's indescribable how delicious it is."
"(...) Very tasty. Especially if you bake it in the oven. You can't think of anything tastier."
"Not just mashed, but with onions and cracklings, and even [if] it sits in the oven and steams with a crust. Mmmm. You could choke on saliva."
Not mashed potatoes
"It seems I understood correctly, we are talking about mashed potatoes," notes a viewer, and adds that in her area, which is 60 kilometers from Pinsk, this dish is called "tovpenya."
"No. They add fatty meat and no milk or water," she is corrected.
Others also prove that you shouldn't confuse mashed potatoes and tovkanitsa:
"Mashed potatoes are made with milk and butter. [And this dish] we call 'komya'. They are made with fried toppings. It's very tasty."
"Mashed potatoes and tovkanitsa are separate dishes."
"And we call it..."
In the comments – a real roll call between viewers. They share the names of this dish in different localities.
"My parents called it tovkenya."
"And we do too, in the Brest region."
"Village near Beloozersk – tovkэnya."
"Tovkanitsa (mashed potatoes) – Kamenets district."
"We call it tolkuchka in the villages."
"I'm from the Kobrin district. And we have 'tovkanitsa'."
"And we say 'kavma'."
"Tovkanitsa. Luninets district."
"Yes. In our village, Brest region, Zhabinkovsky district, there was such a dish and it was also called that."
"In our Rechitsa district, this dish was called 'kamy'. I loved it when my grandmother cooked it. And the smell was amazing."
"Everyone who was born and raised here understood"
"What's so difficult and incomprehensible here?" another viewer wonders. And explains: "In Pinsk it's tovkanitsa, in Minsk my grandmother called it myatanka. But it's not just mashed potatoes, it's mashed potatoes with fried small cracklings with onions without adding oil and milk."
"Anyone who lives in Belarus, who was born and raised here, understood what kind of dish it is!!!" another summarizes.
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