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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Contents

1 Traditional dishes 1.1 Soup 1.2 Main course 1.3 Desserts 1.4 Ingredients 2 Beverages 2.1 Alcoholic 2.2 Non-alcoholic 3 See also

Traditional dishes

Soup

• borshch - beetroot soup, popular among eastern-slavic nations. There are more than 30 regional recipe of cooking Borscht.
• kapusniak - sauerkraut soup.
• rossolnik - soup with kidneys and pickles.
• vushka - "little ears" are rolled triangular dumplings stuffed with mushrooms. Served in borshch at Christmas Eve dinner.

Main course

• pyrohy or varenyky - dumplings
• holubtsi - cabbage leaves stuffed with minced meat and rice, or buckwheat-stuffed beet leaves.
• syrnyky - cottage cheese fritters
• blyni - crepes (nalysnyky) filled with cottage cheese
• pechenya - roast
• kasha hrechana zi shkvarkamy - buckwheat cereal with chopped, fried lard
• guliash - Goulash
• kovbasa - smoked pork garlic sausage

Desserts

• kutia - traditional Christmas dish, made of poppy seeds, wheat, nuts and delicacies.

Ingredients

• kvashena kapusta - sauerkraut
• kvasheni ohirky - pickled cucumbers, usually prepared with garlic and dill

Beverages

Alcoholic

• horilka (spirits, vodka in Russian) - Home-made horilka is popular, including with infusions of fruit, spices or hot peppers.
• beer.
• wines from Europe and Ukraine (particulary from Crimea).

Non-alcoholic

• compote
• kvas

See also

• Mushroom picking in Slavic culture