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Ukrainian cuisine is the collection of the various cooking traditions of the people of Ukraine, one of the largest and most populous European countries. It is heavily influenced by the rich dark soil (chornozem) from which its ingredients come, and often involves many components.[1] Traditional Ukrainian dishes often experience a complex heating process – "at first they are fried or boiled, and then stewed or baked. This is the most distinctive feature of Ukrainian cuisine".[2]
Popular Ukrainian dishes
The national dish of Ukraine is red borscht, a well-known beet soup, of which many varieties exist. However, varenyky (boiled dumplings similar to pierogi) and a type of cabbage roll known as holubtsi are also national favourites, and are a common meal in traditional Ukrainian restaurants.[3] These dishes indicate the regional similarities within Eastern European cuisine.
The cuisine emphasizes the importance of wheat in particular, and grain in general, as the country is often referred to as the "breadbasket of Europe".[4] The majority of Ukrainian dishes descend from ancient peasant dishes based on plentiful grain resources such as rye, as well as staple vegetables such as potato, cabbages, mushrooms and beetroots. Ukrainian dishes incorporate both traditional Slavic techniques as well as other European techniques, a byproduct of years of foreign jurisdiction and influence. As there has been a significant Ukrainian diaspora over several centuries (for example, over a million Canadians have Ukrainian heritage), the cuisine is represented in European countries and those further afield, particularly Argentina, Brazil, and the United States.
Chervonyi borshch (red borscht; usually simply called borshch) is a vegetable soup made out of beets, cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, dill.[5][6] There are about 30 varieties of Ukrainian borscht.[6] It may include meat or fish.[5]
Zelenyi borshch (green borscht) or shchavlevyi borshch (sorrel soup): water or broth based soup with sorrel and various vegetables, served with chopped hard-boiled egg and sour cream. It is to be noted the word "borscht" is not implying beet's presence.
Hrechanyi sup: soup made with buckweat, vegetables, and sometimes meat.
Kapusniak: soup made with pork, salo, cabbage, beans, and served with smetana (sour cream).
Solianka: thick, spicy and sour soup made with meat, fish or mushrooms and various vegetables and pickles.
Yushka: clear soup; the most common variety - rybna yushka (fish yushka) is made from various types of fish such as carp, bream, wels catfish, or even ruffe. Another common variety is hrybna yushka (clear mushroom soup).
Kovbasa: various kinds of smoked or boiled pork, beef or chicken sausage. One specific variety is krovyanka, the blood sausage.
Salo: cured fatback. Usually served sliced, with pieces of bread, onion, and horseradish or hot mustard sauce. It may also be fried (shkvarky), or even boiled.
Kavyar or ikra: caviar, served on top of buttered slices of bread.
Olivier: salad made out of cooked and chopped potatoes, dill pickles, boiled chopped eggs, cooked and chopped chicken or ham, chopped onions, peas, mixed with mayonnaise.
Vinehret: salad with cooked and shredded beets, sauerkraut, cooked and chopped potatoes, onions, and carrots, sometimes pickles mixed with some sunflower oil and salt.
Bread and wheat products are important to Ukrainian cuisine. The country has been considered one of the traditional "breadbaskets" of the world.[7] Decorations on the top can be elaborate for celebrations.
Babka: Easter bread, usually a sweet dough with raisins and other dried fruit. It is usually baked in a tall, cylindrical form.
Bublyk: ring-shaped bread roll made from dough that has been boiled before baking. It is similar to bagel, but usually somewhat bigger and with a wider hole.
Kolach: ring-shaped bread typically served at Christmas and funerals. The dough is braided, often with three strands representing the Holy Trinity. The braid is then shaped into a circle (circle = kolo in Ukrainian) representing the circle of life and family.
Korovai: a round, braided bread, similar to the kolach. It is most often baked for weddings and its top decorated with birds and periwinkle.
Palianytsia: regular baked bread (famously difficult to pronounce for non-Ukrainian speakers).
Savory pampushky: soft, fluffy bread portions, or deep-fried pieces of dough, topped with garlic butter.
Deruny: potato pancakes, usually served with sour cream.
Fish (ryba): fried in egg and flour; cooked in oven with mushrooms, cheese, and lemon; marinaded, dried or smoked variety.
Holubtsi: cabbage leaves, or sometimes vine leaves (fresh or preserved) rolled with rice or millet filling that may contain meat (minced beef or bacon), baked in oil and caramelized onions and may contain as a baking sauce tomato soup, cream or sour cream, bacon drippings or roasted with bacon strips on top.[8]
Huliash: refers to stew in general, or specifically Zakarpattian variety of Hungarian goulash.
Kasha: porridge, usually made out of buckwheat, wheat, barley, rye, millet, rice, oat, or corn. One specific variety is kashahrechana zi shkvarkamy (buckwheat cereal with fried pork rinds and onion).
Kartoplianyky: fried balls of potato mash with flour and eggs; may have a filling.
Kotlety or sichenyky (cutlets, meatballs): minced meat or fish mixed with onions, raw eggs, breadcrumbs or bread, and sometimes garlic and milk, fried in oil and sometimes rolled in breadcrumbs.
Kruchenyky or zavyvantsi: pork or beef rolls with various stuffing: mushrooms, onions, eggs,[9] cheese, prunes, sauerkraut, carrots, etc.
Mlyntsi: thin pancakes, similar to French crêpes. Stuffed mlyntsi are called nalysnyky, and they are usually filled with quark, meat, cabbage, or fruits, and served with sour cream.
Potato (kartoplia, also dialectally barabolia, bulba, krumplia, mandeburka): young or peeled, served with butter, sour cream, dill; a more exclusive variety includes raw egg. May be boiled, fried, baked, or mashed.
Roast meat (pechenia): pork, veal, beef or lamb roast.
Smazhenyna: fried meat.
Stuffed duck or goose with apples.
Varenyky: dumplings made with fillings[5][6] such as mashed potatoes and fried onions, boiled ground meat and fried onions, liver and fried onions, fried cabbage with fried onions, quark, cherries, and strawberries. Served with sour cream and butter or sugar, when filled with fruits.
Kyiv cake: creamy dessert consisting of two layers of meringue with hazelnuts and a buttercream filling.
Molozyvo: dish made by baking a beestings and egg mixture.
Sweet pampushky: sweet dough similar to doughnut holes. Frequently tossed with sugar. Traditionally filled with rose preserve, but can also be filled with poppy seed or other sweet fillings.
Tort: many varieties of cakes, from moist to puffy, most typical ones being Kyivskyi, Prazhskyi, and Trufelnyi. They are frequently made without flour, instead using ground walnuts or almonds.
Varennia: a whole fruit preserve made by cooking berries and other fruits in sugar syrup.
Horilka (горілка): strong spirit of industrial production or its home-made equivalent – samohon (самогон or moonshine) is also popular, including with infusions of fruit, spices, herbs or hot peppers. One of the most exotic is flavoured with honey and red pepper.
Wine (вино, vyno): from Europe and Ukraine (particularly from Crimea), mostly sweet. See Ukrainian wine.
Mead (мед, med, or медуха, medukha): a fermented alcoholic beverage made from honey, water, and yeast. Its flavour depends on the plants frequented by the honeybees, the length of time and method of aging, and the specific strain of yeast used. Its alcohol content will vary from maker to maker depending on the method of production.
Nalyvka (наливка): a homemade wine made from cherries, raspberries, gooseberries, bilberries, blackberries, plums, blackthorns or other berries. Berries were put into a sulija (a big glass bottle), some sugar was added. After the berries fermented, the liquid was separated from the berries, and put into corked bottles. The berries were used to make pyrizhky (baked or fried pastry). The wine has about 15% of alcohol.
Mineral water: well-known brands are Truskavetska, Morshynska, and Myrhorodska. They usually come strongly carbonated.
Kompot (компот): a sweet beverage made of dried or fresh fruits or berries boiled in water.
Uzvar (узвар): a specific type of kompot made of dried fruit, usually apples, pears, and/or prunes. Traditionally served on Christmas.
Kysil (кисіль): a kompot that is thickened with potato starch.
Kvas (квас): a sweet-and-sour sparkling beverage brewed from yeast, sugar, and dried rye bread.
Kefir (кефір):[5] milk fermented by both yeast and lactobacillus bacteria, that has a similar taste to yogurt. Homemade kefir may contain a slight amount of alcohol.
Pryazhene moloko (пряжене молоко): baked milk, a milk product that has a creamy colour and a light caramel flavour. It is made by simmering milk on low heat for at least eight hours.
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^Merrill, Lorraine (2003). "Environment". In Katz, Solomon (ed.). Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 576. ISBN0-684-80565-0.
^Pochle͏̈bkin, Vilʹjam V. (1988). Nationale Küchen die Kochkunst der sowjetischen Völker (2., überarb. Aufl ed.). Moskau. ISBN978-3-7304-0053-1. OCLC 75011701.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Stuffed Pork Rolls with Mushrooms (Kruchenyky). Enjoyyourcooking.com (2010-11-20). Retrieved on 2016-12-17.
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Further readingedit
UCWL Cook Book. Ukrainian Traditional and Favourite Recipes. — Yorkton : The Ukrainian Catholic Women's League, 1970. — 111 p.
Artiukh, Lidia 2001, Ukrainian Cuisine and Folk Traditions, Baltija-Druk, Kyiv
Corona, Annette 2012, The New Ukrainian Cookbook, Hippocrene Books, New York
Faryna, Natalka (ed.) 1976, Ukrainian Canadiana, Ukrainian Women's Association of Canada, Edmonton
Stechishin, Savella 1959, Traditional Ukrainian Cookery, Trident Press, Winnipeg
Stechishin, Savella 2007, “Traditional Foods" Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Retrieved 2007-08-10)
Tracz, Orysia 2015, First Star I See Tonight, Mazepa Publications Zhuravli, Winnipeg
Ukrainian Food, Ukrainian International Directory
Ukrainian Women's Association of Canada, Daughters of Ukraine Branch 1984, Ukrainian Daughters' Cookbook, Centax of Canada, Winnipeg
Yakovenko, Svitlana 2013, Taste of Ukraine: Rustic Cuisine from the Heart of Ukraine, Sova Books, Sydney
Yakovenko, Svitlana 2016, Ukrainian Christmas Eve Supper: Traditional village recipes for Sviata Vecheria, Sova Books, Sydney (e-format edition)
Ukrainian Traditional Food: Tasty, Fun, with a Twinkle!. — Best Kyiv Guide: March 30, 2020 p.
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This article or section should specify the language of its non English content using lang transliteration for transliterated languages and IPA for phonetic transcriptions with an appropriate ISO 639 code Wikipedia s multilingual support templates may also be used See why November 2021 Ukrainian cuisine is the collection of the various cooking traditions of the people of Ukraine one of the largest and most populous European countries It is heavily influenced by the rich dark soil chornozem from which its ingredients come and often involves many components 1 Traditional Ukrainian dishes often experience a complex heating process at first they are fried or boiled and then stewed or baked This is the most distinctive feature of Ukrainian cuisine 2 Popular Ukrainian dishesThe national dish of Ukraine is red borscht a well known beet soup of which many varieties exist However varenyky boiled dumplings similar to pierogi and a type of cabbage roll known asholubtsi are also national favourites and are a common meal in traditional Ukrainian restaurants 3 These dishes indicate the regional similarities within Eastern European cuisine The cuisine emphasizes the importance of wheat in particular and grain in general as the country is often referred to as the breadbasket of Europe 4 The majority of Ukrainian dishes descend from ancient peasant dishes based on plentiful grain resources such as rye as well as staple vegetables such as potato cabbages mushrooms and beetroots Ukrainian dishes incorporate both traditional Slavic techniques as well as other European techniques a byproduct of years of foreign jurisdiction and influence As there has been a significant Ukrainian diaspora over several centuries for example over a million Canadians have Ukrainian heritage the cuisine is represented in European countries and those further afield particularly Argentina Brazil and the United States Contents 1 Soups 2 Salads and appetizers 3 Bread and grain 4 Main courses 5 Desserts 6 Beverages 6 1 Alcoholic 6 2 Non alcoholic 7 See also 8 References 9 Further readingSoups edit nbsp Ukrainian borscht with smetana sour cream Chervonyi borshch red borscht usually simply called borshch is a vegetable soup made out of beets cabbage potatoes tomatoes carrots onions garlic dill 5 6 There are about 30 varieties of Ukrainian borscht 6 It may include meat or fish 5 Zelenyi borshch green borscht or shchavlevyi borshch sorrel soup water or broth based soup with sorrel and various vegetables served with chopped hard boiled egg and sour cream It is to be noted the word borscht is not implying beet s presence Hrechanyi sup soup made with buckweat vegetables and sometimes meat Kapusniak soup made with pork salo cabbage beans and served with smetana sour cream Rosolnyk soup with pickled cucumbers Solianka thick spicy and sour soup made with meat fish or mushrooms and various vegetables and pickles Yushka clear soup the most common variety rybna yushka fish yushka is made from various types of fish such as carp bream wels catfish or even ruffe Another common variety is hrybna yushka clear mushroom soup Salads and appetizers edit nbsp KholodetsBrynza or bryndza white cow or sheep cheese from the Carpathians Kovbasa various kinds of smoked or boiled pork beef or chicken sausage One specific variety is krovyanka the blood sausage Salo cured fatback Usually served sliced with pieces of bread onion and horseradish or hot mustard sauce It may also be fried shkvarky or even boiled Kavyar or ikra caviar served on top of buttered slices of bread Kholodets aspic studenets made with meat or fish zalyvna ryba Olivier salad made out of cooked and chopped potatoes dill pickles boiled chopped eggs cooked and chopped chicken or ham chopped onions peas mixed with mayonnaise Vinehret salad with cooked and shredded beets sauerkraut cooked and chopped potatoes onions and carrots sometimes pickles mixed with some sunflower oil and salt Bread and grain edit nbsp Traditional Ukrainian paskaBread and wheat products are important to Ukrainian cuisine The country has been considered one of the traditional breadbaskets of the world 7 Decorations on the top can be elaborate for celebrations Babka Easter bread usually a sweet dough with raisins and other dried fruit It is usually baked in a tall cylindrical form Bublyk ring shaped bread roll made from dough that has been boiled before baking It is similar to bagel but usually somewhat bigger and with a wider hole Kolach ring shaped bread typically served at Christmas and funerals The dough is braided often with three strands representing the Holy Trinity The braid is then shaped into a circle circle kolo in Ukrainian representing the circle of life and family Korovai a round braided bread similar to the kolach It is most often baked for weddings and its top decorated with birds and periwinkle Palianytsia regular baked bread famously difficult to pronounce for non Ukrainian speakers Savory pampushky soft fluffy bread portions or deep fried pieces of dough topped with garlic butter Paska traditional rich pastry Main courses edit nbsp Varenyky stuffed with meat served with fried onions and sour cream nbsp Smetannyk a traditional Ukrainian dessertBanush a cornmeal stew Deruny potato pancakes usually served with sour cream Fish ryba fried in egg and flour cooked in oven with mushrooms cheese and lemon marinaded dried or smoked variety Holubtsi cabbage leaves or sometimes vine leaves fresh or preserved rolled with rice or millet filling that may contain meat minced beef or bacon baked in oil and caramelized onions and may contain as a baking sauce tomato soup cream or sour cream bacon drippings or roasted with bacon strips on top 8 Huliash refers to stew in general or specifically Zakarpattian variety of Hungarian goulash Kasha porridge usually made out of buckwheat wheat barley rye millet rice oat or corn One specific variety is kasha hrechana zi shkvarkamy buckwheat cereal with fried pork rinds and onion Kartoplianyky fried balls of potato mash with flour and eggs may have a filling Kotlety or sichenyky cutlets meatballs minced meat or fish mixed with onions raw eggs breadcrumbs or bread and sometimes garlic and milk fried in oil and sometimes rolled in breadcrumbs Kotleta po kyivsky Kyiv style chicken cutlet filled with butter and fresh herbs Kruchenyky or zavyvantsi pork or beef rolls with various stuffing mushrooms onions eggs 9 cheese prunes sauerkraut carrots etc Mlyntsi thin pancakes similar to French crepes Stuffed mlyntsi are called nalysnyky and they are usually filled with quark meat cabbage or fruits and served with sour cream Potato kartoplia also dialectally barabolia bulba krumplia mandeburka young or peeled served with butter sour cream dill a more exclusive variety includes raw egg May be boiled fried baked or mashed Pyrizhky baked buns stuffed with different fillings such as ground meat liver eggs rice onions fried cabbage or sauerkraut quark cherries etc Pyrih a big pie with various fillings Roast meat pechenia pork veal beef or lamb roast Smazhenyna fried meat Stuffed duck or goose with apples Varenyky dumplings made with fillings 5 6 such as mashed potatoes and fried onions boiled ground meat and fried onions liver and fried onions fried cabbage with fried onions quark cherries and strawberries Served with sour cream and butter or sugar when filled with fruits nbsp Deruny in a traditional crockery dish nbsp Kotleta po kyivsky Kyiv style chicken Desserts editFor a more comprehensive list see List of Ukrainian desserts Kutia traditional Christmas dish made of poppy seeds wheat nuts honey and delicacies 10 Kyiv cake creamy dessert consisting of two layers of meringue with hazelnuts and a buttercream filling Molozyvo dish made by baking a beestings and egg mixture Sweet pampushky sweet dough similar to doughnut holes Frequently tossed with sugar Traditionally filled with rose preserve but can also be filled with poppy seed or other sweet fillings Pinnyk berry mousse Ptashyne moloko literally bird s milk milk souffle with chocolate coating Syrnyky fried quark fritters sometimes with raisins served with sour cream jam varennya honey or apple sauce Tort many varieties of cakes from moist to puffy most typical ones being Kyivskyi Prazhskyi and Trufelnyi They are frequently made without flour instead using ground walnuts or almonds Varennia a whole fruit preserve made by cooking berries and other fruits in sugar syrup Vatrushka pastry with sweet quark filling Verhuny crispy deep fried pastry similar to angel wings Zhele plural and singular jellied fruits like cherries pears etc nbsp Kutia nbsp Syrnyky with raisinsBeverages edit nbsp MeadAlcoholic edit Horilka gorilka strong spirit of industrial production or its home made equivalent samohon samogon or moonshine is also popular including with infusions of fruit spices herbs or hot peppers One of the most exotic is flavoured with honey and red pepper Beer pivo pyvo the largest producers of beer are Obolon Lvivske Chernihivske Slavutych Sarmat and Rogan which partly export their products Wine vino vyno from Europe and Ukraine particularly from Crimea mostly sweet See Ukrainian wine Mead med med or meduha medukha a fermented alcoholic beverage made from honey water and yeast Its flavour depends on the plants frequented by the honeybees the length of time and method of aging and the specific strain of yeast used Its alcohol content will vary from maker to maker depending on the method of production Nalyvka nalivka a homemade wine made from cherries raspberries gooseberries bilberries blackberries plums blackthorns or other berries Berries were put into a sulija a big glass bottle some sugar was added After the berries fermented the liquid was separated from the berries and put into corked bottles The berries were used to make pyrizhky baked or fried pastry The wine has about 15 of alcohol Non alcoholic edit nbsp RyazhankaMineral water well known brands are Truskavetska Morshynska and Myrhorodska They usually come strongly carbonated Kompot kompot a sweet beverage made of dried or fresh fruits or berries boiled in water Uzvar uzvar a specific type of kompot made of dried fruit usually apples pears and or prunes Traditionally served on Christmas Kysil kisil a kompot that is thickened with potato starch Kvas kvas a sweet and sour sparkling beverage brewed from yeast sugar and dried rye bread Kefir kefir 5 milk fermented by both yeast and lactobacillus bacteria that has a similar taste to yogurt Homemade kefir may contain a slight amount of alcohol Pryazhene moloko pryazhene moloko baked milk a milk product that has a creamy colour and a light caramel flavour It is made by simmering milk on low heat for at least eight hours Ryazhanka ryazhanka fermented baked milk Syta sita water with honey See also edit nbsp Ukraine portal nbsp Food portalCulinary arts Mushroom picking in Slavic culture Twelve dish Christmas Eve supper Cuisine of Odesa Olha FrankoReferences edit Food in Ukraine Ukrainian Food Ukrainian Cuisine traditional popular dishes recipe diet history common meals staple www foodbycountry com Ukrainian National Food and Cuisine ukrainetrek com 5 Best Ukraine traditional Foods The Bread Basket of Europe InfoPlease a b c d Cuisine Flavors and Colors of Ukrainian Culture Ukraine com Accessed July 2011 a b c Ukraine National Food Meals and Cookery Ukrainetrek com Accessed July 2011 Merrill Lorraine 2003 Environment In Katz Solomon ed Encyclopedia of Food and Culture Vol 1 New York Charles Scribner s Sons p 576 ISBN 0 684 80565 0 Pochle bkin Vilʹjam V 1988 Nationale Kuchen die Kochkunst der sowjetischen Volker 2 uberarb Aufl ed Moskau ISBN 978 3 7304 0053 1 OCLC 75011701 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link Stuffed Pork Rolls with Mushrooms Kruchenyky Enjoyyourcooking com 2010 11 20 Retrieved on 2016 12 17 Recipe Kutia Star of the Ukrainian Christmas Eve Supper Archived 2019 11 14 at the Wayback Machine Sovabooks com au Retrieved on 2016 12 17 Further reading editUCWL Cook Book Ukrainian Traditional and Favourite Recipes Yorkton The Ukrainian Catholic Women s League 1970 111 p Artiukh Lidia 1977 Ukrainska Narodna Kulinaria Ukrainian Folk Cuisine Naukova Dumka Kyiv Artiukh Lidia 2001 Ukrainian Cuisine and Folk Traditions Baltija Druk Kyiv Corona Annette 2012 The New Ukrainian Cookbook Hippocrene Books New York Faryna Natalka ed 1976 Ukrainian Canadiana Ukrainian Women s Association of Canada Edmonton Stechishin Savella 1959 Traditional Ukrainian Cookery Trident Press Winnipeg Stechishin Savella 2007 Traditional Foods Encyclopedia of Ukraine Retrieved 2007 08 10 Tracz Orysia 2015 First Star I See Tonight Mazepa Publications Zhuravli Winnipeg Ukrainian Food Ukrainian International Directory Ukrainian Women s Association of Canada Daughters of Ukraine Branch 1984 Ukrainian Daughters Cookbook Centax of Canada Winnipeg Yakovenko Svitlana 2013 Taste of Ukraine Rustic Cuisine from the Heart of Ukraine Sova Books Sydney Yakovenko Svitlana 2016 Ukrainian Christmas Eve Supper Traditional village recipes for Sviata Vecheria Sova Books Sydney e format edition Ukrainian Traditional Food Tasty Fun with a Twinkle Best Kyiv Guide March 30 2020 p Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ukrainian cuisine amp oldid 1184637590, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
