Olivier is popular in the former USSR countries winter salad. It is regularly served at Ukrainians' New Year table on par with dressed herring and meat jelly.
The salad combines several interesting ingredients: boiled vegetables, eggs and meat. Meat choice may vary - from poultry to pork. Some housewives add beef tongue instead of meat in order to make the salad especially tender. Regarding boiled vegetables - potatoes and carrots - they must get cold (indoor temperature) before getting in salad, otherwise they lose their taste.
Olivier is regularly seasoned with mayonnaise. Afterwards the salad should stand for a while, and only then you may put it in fridge and then serve.
Olivier is traditional festive dish, but sometimes it is also served to everyday table.
The solozhenick is a traditional Ukrainian dessert made of eggs and cream. There are different variants of solozhenick with varied stuffing from jam to poppy-seed. It is hardly could be called a pastry because it is cooked over heat. The apple solozhenick boasts both tender flavor and pleasant fragrance.
Kvass is a popular Slavic drink known since the Kievan Rus times. Made from rye or barley malt, it is not only very tasty, but refreshing and helpful for metabolic processes' normalization. Besides that, kvass is traditionally summer drink that perfectly slakes thirst and increases efficiency.
In order to make real kvass, you need minimum ingredients and maximum patience, for it is a very long process. Kvass's main components are rye bread, water, yeast and sugar. Some also add various herbs, dried fruits and berries to kvass.
If you've read 'Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka' by Russian classical writer Nikolai Gogol, you surely remember how adroitly one of the characters ate vareniki with sour cream that flew into his mouth by themselves. Of course, traditional Ukrainian vareniki don't have such super skills, but their taste is sure to make you think of the Ukrainian cuisine's magic.
Ukrainian vareniki are often compared to Russian pelmeni or Italian ravioli. Vareniki's crucial difference from other similar dishes is their dough. Traditional Ukrainian vareniki can't be Lenten, that is, kefir and eggs are always added to the dough.
What are vareniki like? Nikolai Gogol wrote that you could eat hat-sized vareniki at some farms. That's, of course, an exaggeration. The classical varenik is around 10 cm large and, contrary to pelmeni or ravioli, has a crescent shape.
Vareniki's filling can be very different: potato, cabbage, potato and meat, potato and salo (pork meat), sweet or salted curd, pumpkin, cherries and so on. The filling is warped up in dough and cooked for five minutes or less. Vareniki are usually served with sour cream.
Although it's truly Ukrainian dish, vareniki are well-known all over the world. People in different corners of the world took liking of vereniki's unusual and rich taste and installed monuments to varenik. In particular, Ukrainian varenik was immortalized in Canada and Russia.
Cottage cheese pancakes are national Ukrainian dish, with curd being its main ingredient. Many ask why curd pancakes are called 'cottage cheese pancakes'! The answer is simple: in Ukraine curd is commonly called cottage cheese, and from here the dish's name derives.
The main ingredients are curd (dry is the best), eggs and flour. The pancakes may be sweet or salted, with or without filling. Many housewives also add apples, dried fruits, raisins, nuts and other ingredients upon their taste. The main thing is that they go with curd.
There are two ways to cook cottage cheese pancakes: fry them on pan and bake them in oven. You may also stew fried pancakes in sour cream for a while - it'll make them more delicate.
Cottage cheese pancakes are usually served for breakfast with sour cream or jam.
The Lamb Dushenina is an age-old national Ukrainian dish, that as a matter of fact is meat braised with vegetables, however the vegetables are the subject to every cooker and their selection depends on his tastes and preferences. The dish is cooked either in a deep casserole over stove, or in a clay pot in oven, that also depends on cooker’s wish.
It is a worldwide famous dish. Of course, it is well-loved and praise mostly in Slavic countries, however, the simple Ukrainian dish is popular throughout Europe. The deruni (potatoes pancakes) is almost unvaried around Ukraine. Even Ukrainian classical writers gave credits to this dish, describing it in their literary works.
The traditional deruni
As far back as Kievan Rus epoch, the people managed to prove the radish’s medicinal properties and therefore invented lots of mouth-watering and beneficial recipes with radish.
Ресторан Patio di Fiori – первый ресторан высокой кухни в Луцке. Он находится в здании одноименного отеля, расположенного недалеко от центра города. В его меню – изысканные блюда европейской кухни и авторские деликатесы от шеф-повара, которые тут готовят из натуральных высококачественных продуктов.
Среди популярных позиций – каре новозеландского я
Located in the cellar premises at Dnipropetrovsk's very center, the original cafe 'Myshi Blyakhera' is designed as a second-hand bookstore. According to legend, facility's concept was born, when during renovations a note-book that previously was owned by some Mikhail Blyakher was found under the wooden floor. This diary contained personal records a
Кафе «Базилик», расположенное рядом со сквером Героев Майдана, это заведение семейного типа с вкусной разнообразной кухней, приятной обстановкой и отменным сервисом. Оно специализируется на традиционных итальянских блюдах и предлагает более двадцати видов пиццы на тонком тесте, в том числе авторской.
В его меню – итальянская классика: карпаччо из
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