Meaning of oladyi | Babel Free

Definitions

Small thick pancakes or fritters common in Russian and Ukrainian cuisines.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“Mix thoroughly and cook the oladyi on a hot griddle.”

“But at night when they came to see me in the Ural, when they had knocked back huge amounts of Kunzevskaya and Stolichnaya and devoured piles of piroshki, oladyi, vatrushki, and bulochki with zimmes, they spoke French, English, kissed hands and paid compliments, knew the wittiest toasts, and fiddled their Russian souls inside out in order to dance on the most crooked roofs of the most Eastern shtetl at dawn.”

“Now, I tink only of latkes and grenki with jam and curly sausages, and oladyi crepes and patato rolls…”

“At the moment Magnitsky was preparing Barsukov’s breakfast of oladyi pancakes and sausages with a pair of George Foreman grills kept on one of the broad concrete windowsills.”

“Serve them as they come out of the pan or place the cooked oladyi on a plate loosely covered with a clean tea towel and repeat the process until all oladyi are ready to be enjoyed with a pat of butter and doused in maple syrup.”

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