Ukrainian cuisine is famous, popular and loved all over the world. Ukrainian national dishes are prepared in restaurants of different countries. Even in faraway Australia or Africa, you can be treated to Ukrainian borscht and dumplings.
The main "highlight"
The cuisine of Ukraine began its formation back in the days of Kievan Rus. And this process continued for several centuries. It ended, according to experts, with the advent of eggplants and tomatoes in the history of Ukrainian cooking. Since it is impossible to imagine the modern national cuisine of the Ukrainian people without the use of these vegetables.
Of course, Ukrainian cuisine is constantly being replenished with new ingredients and culinary recipes today. But its foundation remains unchanged. The main feature, "highlight" of Ukrainian cuisine can be unmistakably called endless love for lard. The participation of this product in the preparation of national dishes is truly nationwide. Lard is prepared in all available and even outlandish ways: it is boiled, fried, stewed, smoked, salted, stuffed with meat, and even used in the preparation of pastries and sweets.
Business card
Another characteristic feature of Ukrainian chefs is to create a significant number of variants of one dish. For example, such a popular national dish as dumplings. Dumplings are prepared with potato and wheat, buckwheat and cottage cheese, with cheese, bacon, ham, apples, bread crumbs and choux pastry.
As for the business card of Ukrainian cuisine, it is, of course, the world-famous Ukrainian borscht. This dish has about thirty varieties and is prepared in different ways in different regions of Ukraine.
The second most popular dish in this country is rightfully considered to be dumplings. They are made here with all kinds of fillings: from potatoes with cabbage to cottage cheese and berries.
Generous variety
In the menu of every Ukrainian family, you can always find such popular dishes as liver, meatballs generously stuffed with garlic and bacon, cabbage stewed with bacon, boiled pork, cabbage rolls.
Ukrainian cuisine is also rich in fish dishes. Fresh fish is used to make krucheniki, casseroles with sour cream and mushrooms. The fish is stuffed with buckwheat porridge, vegetables, stewed with carrots and onions.
Root crops occupy an important place in the national cuisine, among which beets are in the lead. Tomatoes, eggplants, as well as bell peppers, cabbage and beans are also widely used.
The assortment of egg dishes is very diverse. Secheniks and grandmothers, a variety of omelets and scrambled eggs, eggs are part of most flour and sweet products.
A large number of pastries and dishes are another characteristic feature of Ukrainian cuisine. Not only well-known pancakes and pancakes are prepared in Ukraine. Here there are donuts, and shuliks, and Greek people, and lemesh, and pukhkeniks, and verguns, and malts. This is not a complete list of dishes that will be fed to you in this generous hospitable country.
