Posted on 02/26/2022 5:06:00 AM PST by mylife
Ukrainian foods belong to the Eastern European cuisine. Ukrainian borscht, varenyky, and salo might be familiar to many of you.
Indeed, traditional Ukrainian restaurants can’t help themselves cooking lots and lots of borscht and varenyky. Whenever they come up with a chef’s variation, they get drawn right back to the roots, because their clients say they want to taste authentic national food in its classic form. Of course, regional varieties of the same dish differ a lot. If you visit ten families in Ukraine, you will try ten kinds of borscht, you can be sure. And why? Because every region in Ukraine has its own popular meals, many influenced by Turkish, Polish or Crimean Tatars cuisine.
But also because Ukrainians love to be great hosts. So here come the top 10 dishes you will experience in any part of Ukraine, on weekdays and holidays .
(Excerpt) Read more at chefspencil.com ...
I’ve had many of these at the very affordable, very popular, very fast, and delicious Puzata Hata in Kyiv and L’viv. (It’s cafeteria style fast food, so it doesn’t qualify as “very delicious.)
RIP freeper tt, he served in ukraine and taught me “ukranian bombers”
a shot of vodka on crushed ice, chased with pomegranate juice
I was surprised to see chicken Kiev on the list.
I thought that was an American invention.
like a Lithuanian Luby’s?
The gelatin dish reminded me of the jello molds my mother used to make when I was a small child: Lemon or lime jello with tuna, green olives, carrots, etc.
Absolutely wretched.
pickled pigs lips in aspic!!
I’d take pig jello over lime jello :P
Lime jello mold with sliced banana or a drained can of fruit cocktail bring the 1960s back to me....
My Russian wife (from east Ukraine) makes these. I call them "Russian burritos".
Pretty good, though tasting nothing like a burrito.
I've eaten everything on this list, except Chicken Kiev which she had never heard of.
Mrs. Horvath’s “secret ingredient” for her cabbage & noodles? Bacon fat.
Best ever.
Grew up when sections of town were Polish, Hungarian, Ukranian...
Sounds like where I grew up. The coal regions of Eastern PA. Over half the linked-article recipes had been staples.
those would be mighty good on this winters day.
didn’t know it was a secret. ;)
We were in Lviv in May 2019. Found a restaurant—tucked in the basement and completely unadvertised, that was awesome. Simple food, like bread and soup, that were some of the best I ever had in my life. Trapezna Idey. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g295377-d6218224-Reviews-Trapezna_Idey-Lviv_Lviv_Oblast.html
the best kind of place
It looks like a relative of ice bein. Ice bein only showed up at hog butchering time on the farm. There were many delicious things that only showed up at butchering time. I never saw or was much interested in how she made ice bein, but it didn’t make the family reunion recipe book. It must have come from the lower leg/hoof which was not much good for anything else.
The Paska and potato pancakes look good though.
not a beet fan, but not a hater ;)
Sounds like “head cheese” - looks like it too.
My dad, an Indian farm boy, loved it.
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