Baku Kitchen! An independent reference of traditional food

Ukraine

Ukraine’s food is built around beet borscht, filled dumplings, cured salo and garlic bread rolls from Europe’s breadbasket. Look for Borscht (beet and cabbage soup with pork, sour cream, garlic pampushky), Varenyky (boiled dumplings with potato, cheese or cherries; fried onions, smetana) and Salo (cured pork fatback with garlic, rye bread, horilka). UNESCO added the culture of Ukrainian borscht to its urgent-safeguarding list in 2022; beetroot took over the soup as the crop spread. This atlas has 48 Ukraine dishes catalogued below, from everyday cooking to food kept for festivals and special occasions.

48 dishes.

PalianytsiaPalianytsiaround hearth loaf with a cut flap, offered with salt to guestsPampushkyPampushkyfluffy rolls brushed with garlic oil, borscht's companionPaskaPaskatall glazed Easter bread blessed in basketsRiazhankaRiazhankafermented baked milk, caramel-coloured and mildly sweetSaloSalosalted pork fatback with garlic, sliced onto rye breadSamohonSamohonhome-distilled grain or fruit spirit, clear and strongSmetanaSmetanathick sour cream stirred into soups and spooned over everythingSoleni hrybySoleni hrybyForest mushrooms salted in layers with dill and garlic, eaten with oil.SyrnykySyrnykyfried curd-cheese pancakes with jam, smetanaUzvarUzvarsmoky dried-fruit compote for feast daysVarenykyVarenykyboiled dumplings with potato, cheese or cherries; fried onions, smetanaVerhunyVerhunyTwisted strips of dough fried crisp and dusted with icing sugar.

  • Banosh

    Hutsul cornmeal cooked in sour cream with bryndza, cracklings. Ready in 10 min prep and 35 min cooking. 4 servings.…

  • Buriakovyi kvas

    Sour beet brine fermented in a jar, stirred into borscht for colour and acidity. 20 min to prepare. Makes 2…

  • Buzhenyna

    Pork studded with garlic, baked and eaten cold in slices. Ready in 30 min prep and 2 hours 30 minutes…

  • Chebureki

    Large half-moon turnovers of thin dough filled with minced lamb, fried. Ready in 30 min prep and 30 min cooking.…

  • Deruny

    Potato pancakes with sour cream or mushroom sauce. Ready in 20 min prep and 25 min cooking. 16 pancakes. A…

  • Green borscht

    Spring sorrel soup with boiled egg, potato. Ready in 20 min prep and 30 min cooking. 6 servings. A soup…

  • Holubtsi

    Cabbage rolls of rice and meat in tomato sauce. Ready in 1 hr prep and 2 hr cooking. About 14…

  • Hlintvein

    Mulled red wine with honey, cinnamon and citrus, served hot. Ready in 10 minutes prep and 25 minutes cooking. Serves…

  • Hrechanyky

    Meat patties bound with buckwheat porridge, fried then baked in sauce. Ready in 30 min prep and 1 hr cooking.…

  • Horilka

    Ukrainian vodka, often infused with honey and chili. A wine & spirit recipe from Ukraine.