In Ukraine dressed herring is mostly served at New Year celebration. It originated in Russia in the early 20th century and then spread to all former USSR cuisines including Ukrainian. Since then Shuba (literally: fur coat; colloquial name for dressed herring) is rightly considered to be national Ukrainian dish.
Shuba is multicomponent dish. Its main ingredient is herring of spiced salting covered with layers of different vegetables: onion, potato, carrot and beet root. It's better to serve this salad in deep bowls with ledges or in special serving ring.
Shuba is regularly made upon standard recipe that is seldom changed in order not to break the harmony of taste. However, some housewives add grated apple to the dressed herring salad, and the combination of sweet and salty gives the dish piquant taste.
The spotykach is commonly confused with liquors however there is a significant difference. The spotykach is sweeter, denser and more aromatic, and it is reckoned to be a dessert beverage. Following these directions any fruits can be used, nevertheless the recipe with blackcurrants is considered to be the classic one.
It’s is an unusual salad for smoked food’s lovers. The salad boasts a successful combination of the piquancy crispy pig’s ears and the freshness of cucumbers.
The banush is a traditional Hutsul dish. It is predominantly cooked during holidays or feasts in mountain area or the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. It is always served hot. According to the legends, no one could stay indifferent after tasting this national dish.
It's impossible to imagine authentic Ukrainian cuisine without homemade sausage. This is an absolutely natural and unique product.
Meat (often pork, sometimes beef) and salo (pork fat) are used in order to cook homemade sausage. Pig's gut is stuffed with meat and salo, boiled, and then fried on pan or baked in oven
Homemade sausage is traditional Ukrainian dish cooked all around the country. Its recipe is basically the same in all regions, but housewives often add something special to it. For instance, some add cognac to homemade sausage, others never fry it, but leave boiled.
Homemade sausage is mostly served as appetizer with piece of brown bread.
Sochniki is a traditional Ukrainian delicacy. This Ukrainians' favorite desert is a small cottage cheese patty from sweet short pastry. The cottage cheese can be not only a stuffing, though, but a component of the dough for sochniki.
Some stuff sochniki with different berries and fruits: cherry, strawberry, blueberry and other.
They are served as a
Tasty and fragrant borsht is the rich Ukrainian cuisine's trademark, in regard this original dish was described in literary works by Ukrainian and Russian classical writers for a reason. You won't find a housewife in Ukraine, who can't cook borsht, although it's not the simplest dish at all. It has plenty of components and complicated cooking techn
The meat rolls, or kruchenyky are commonly appraised among other dishes of Ukrainian cuisine, and there are many variants of recipe. Any meat and almost any stuffing could be used therefore every Ukrainian cooker prepares its signature kruchenyky.
Situated on the 28th kilometer of the Novaya Obukhovskaya highway, the country restaurant complex Bakinsky Bulvar is famous for its dainty cuisine and high-class service.
Its menu is based on the variety of Caucasian dishes: shish kebabs, kebabs, entrecôtes, soups, as well as famous Azerbaijani sweets. Elite strong drinks from restaurant’s bar list
Situated not far from the metro station Universitet, the downtown restaurant Shoti is a fortunate symbiosis of different gastronomic traditions and cozy atmosphere.
Facility’s menu consists of Ukrainian and Caucasian cuisines’ masterpieces. Rich wine list, featuring the best drinks from Georgia, Italy, France and Chile, and a great beer selection a
The restaurant 5 Element is a part of the namesake sports and health improving club located on the picturesque Rybalsky Island. Facility's main distinctive feature is its pleasant and light atmosphere that facilitates recreation and socializing.
The restaurant features a wide choice of European, Mediterranean, Italian, Japanese and Ukrainian dishes
The art-restaurant Paris is situated in Kharkiv’s very heart, not far from the metro station Pushkinskaya. Its menu features dainty French dishes. There is a wide selection of cream soups, salads, side dishes, main courses and deserts. Restaurant’s special gastronomic feature is that all dishes are cooked exclusively on vegetable oil.
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