Ukrainian cuisine
Ukrainian cuisine has a rich history and offers a wide variety of dishes, partly borrowed from other cuisines like german, turkish and polish. Cuisine of Ukraine has influenced the cuisines of neighbor, e.g. russian cuisine. Meat (especially pork), vegetables, fruit, mushrooms, berries, herbs play a major part.
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Famous all-national dishes
Soup
- Borscht - beetroot soup, popular among eastern-slavic nations. There are more then 30 regional recipe of cooking Borscht.
- rossolnik - soup with sauerkraut.
Main course
- pierogi - dumplings
- vareniki
- syrniki
- blini
- pechenya
- kasha grechana zi shkvarkamy- buckwheat cereal with chopped, fried lard
- gulasz - Goulash
- golubtsy - white cabbage leaves stuffed with minced meat and rice
Desserts
- kutia - traditional Christmas dish, made of poppy seeds, wheat, nuts and delicacies.
Ingredients
- kapusta kysla - sauerkraut
- ogirky kysli - salted sour cucumber, sort of a pickle prepared in a similar way to the sauerkraut
Beverages
Alcogolic beverages
- Vodka, in Ukrainian Horilka. Also home-made vodkas are very popular.
- Different sorts of beer.
- Wines from Europe and Ukraine (particulary from Crimea).
Non-alcoholic beverages
