Ukraine has always been famous for its national cuisine. The cuisine of this country has an incredible number of recipes. Ukrainian dishes are popular far beyond its borders. This is due to their excellent nutritional and taste qualities.
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The national cuisine uses a variety of products and all kinds of processing methods. For example, there are over 30 recipes for making borscht. It consists of 20 different products. Everyone knows such Ukrainian dishes as donuts, dumplings, dumplings, rolls, cakes, stuffed bacon, boiled pork, roast, Greek people, etc. Many dishes are made from meat and vegetables. These include stuffed cabbage rolls, stuffed peppers, krucheniki, etc. Ukrainian dishes with mushrooms are very tasty: scrambled eggs with mushrooms, duck with noodles and mushrooms, joker, dumplings and mushrooms and potatoes. Ukrainians prepare food in different ways. Products are boiled, stewed, baked, fried, sauteed. Dishes in clay pots are extraordinarily tasty. They cook stewed cabbage, roast, meat with prunes and potatoes.
Cooks generously add garlic to food. It is the main spicy seasoning that gives a bright taste and aroma to any dish. Ukrainian cuisine is unthinkable without fish. Popular are fish balls and balls, sicheniki, fish with cabbage, etc. Vegetable dishes in Ukraine are often made with beets. The chefs prepare stuffed beets, beetroot caviar, beetroot pancakes and meatballs. The national cuisine reflects the traditions of each region. The original ethnographic groups of the Verkhovyns of the Carpathians and Polishchuk people have their own traditional dishes. In the Carpathians, meals made from corn flour, dairy products and mushrooms prevail. Polishchuk dishes consist mainly of vegetables and potatoes. Ukrainian chefs attach great importance to the taste of food. They use many herbs. Onions, caraway seeds, horseradish, garlic, parsley, thyme, parsnips, peppers and mint are grown in the country. Dill and parsley are added to almost all main dishes.
Most popular dishes
Ukrainians often consume lard. It can be a stand-alone meal or a component of another dish. Sometimes lard becomes the fatty staple of meals. Love for pork brings the national cuisine closer to the cuisines of the Hungarians, Belarusians and Western Slavs. In Ukraine, lard is eaten boiled, salted, smoked, fried and peppered. They are stuffed with it, they cook on it. It is even used in desserts, combined with molasses and sugar. For example, verguns are a confectionery product fried in lard. For lunch, Ukrainians often serve dumplings with various fillings (cottage cheese, cabbage, potatoes, berries).
As for drinks, Ukrainians prefer kvass. They make beetroot, bread, birch, viburnum, cranberry and other kvass. Uzvars, liqueurs, liqueurs, varenukha, spottykach, etc. are widespread.
