Lazanki
{{Short description|Traditional dish with large flat pasta}}
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Lazanki ({{langx|be|лазанкі}}, {{langx|pl|łazanki}} {{IPA|pl|waˈzaŋ.ki||audio=Pl-łazanki.ogg}}, singular łazanka or łazanek,{{cite web|url=https://sjp.pwn.pl/szukaj/%C5%82azanki.html|title=łazanki|website=sjp.pwn.pl|series=Słownik języka polskiego|publisher=PWN}} {{langx|lt|skryliai}}, Ukrainian: лазанки) is a Polish, Lithuanian and Belarusian type of pasta.
It consists of wheat, rye or buckwheat dough which is rolled thin and cut into triangles or rectangles. These are boiled, drained, and eaten with melted pork fat, vegetable oil and often sour cream.{{cite web|url=http://www.belarus.by/en/about-belarus/cuisine/lazanki|title=Dishes of Belarusian cuisine: lesanki|publisher=Belarus.by}} In Poland, they are commonly mixed with fried cabbage or with soured cabbage and small pieces of sausage, meat and mushrooms.
History
Lazanki has been known in Poland since early Middle Ages, then also in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Its older name variant is laga: laganki meaning most likely a stick, a stripe, a wooden stick.{{cn|date=October 2024}} The name probably derives from elongated strips cut from flattened dough, or from las/laska, meaning a wooden stick.{{cn|date=October 2024}} Another source{{which|date=October 2024}} says the name comes from the ancient Polish/Slavic word{{dubious|date=October 2024}} las meaning forests, as the original lazanki were cooked with the addition of meat, mushrooms, which were obtained from the forests. Later versions of lazanki include sauerkraut and cheese. Modern versions of this dish differ only slightly from its original versions.
Some sources tell another story about łazanki: When Bona Sforza d’Aragona married into Polish royalty and became queen to Poland and Duchess to Lithuania in the 16th century, her Italian cooks fused dishes from Polish and Italian cuisines.{{Cite web |last=Ziemski |first=Emily |date=2024-09-06 |title=Have Cabbage and Pasta? Make Łazanki |url=https://www.epicurious.com/recipes-menus/why-you-should-turn-cabbage-into-lazanki |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=Epicurious |language=en-US}}
According to an alternative etymology, the Polish name łazanki derives ultimately from the Italian word lasagne, a name for a type of pasta which, like typical lazanki, is also rectangular in shape, except much larger.{{cite web|url=https://www.nck.pl/projekty-kulturalne/projekty/ojczysty-dodaj-do-ulubionych/ciekawostki-jezykowe/LAZANKI|title=Łazanki|website=nck.pl|series=Ojczysty – dodaj do ulubionych|publisher=Narodowe Centrum Kultury}}
See also
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