Ukrainian Recipes & Cookbooks

How to Cook dishes from Ukraine

• Borscht - Beet soup. There are more than 30 different varieties of borscht eaten in the Ukraine.
  
  
• Deruny - Potato pancakes stuffed with cottage cheese.
  
  
• Holubtsi - Cabbage leaves stuffed with ground meat and rice, or millet.
  
  
• Hrybivka - Mushroom soup. It is often served with vushka (triangular dumplings).
  
  
• Kapustianyi - Salad made from sauerkraut or shredded fresh cabbage.
  
  
• Kholodets - Jellied meat.
  
  
• Kotlety - Fish or ground meat cutlets. They are sometimes rolled in bread crumbs before cooking.
  
  
• Mlyntsi - Crêpes filled with caviar, cottage cheese, meat or fruit.
  
  
• Oseledets - Pickled herring with onions, black pepper and sunflower oil.
  
  
• Paska - A traditional bread, eaten at Ester. The dough contains butter, eggs and sugar as well as flour, and it is glazed with egg and water. Inside the bread is yellow and white, the yellow is said to represent Christ, and the white to represent the Holy Spirit.
  
  
• Pliatsky - Potato pancakes served with sour cream.
  
  
• Solyanka - A thick spicy sour soup. It can made from with meat, fish or mushrooms, and also contains pickled cucumbers, salty mushrooms, cabbage, smetana (sour cream), and dill.
  
  
  
• Varenyky - Boiled dumplings filled with cabbage, cheese, potato or fruit.
  
  
  
• Vesnianyi - Salad made from diced cucumbers and tomatoes with dill or parsley.
  
  
• Vinihret - Salad made from red beetroot.
  
  
• Yushka - A soup made from freshwater fish such as carp.
  
  
• Zalyvne - Jellied fish.

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