Ukrainian Cooking - Authentic Ukrainian Recipes Course

"Borscht"  is a beet soup of Ukrainian origin common in Eastern Europe. It is typically made with beets as the primary ingredient by combining meat or bone stock with sautéed or boiled vegetables, which may include cabbage, carrots, onions, potatoes, and tomatoes.

Depending on the recipe, borscht may vastly vary in thickness (from porridge-like thick to drink-like smooth). A pot of borscht, however, may be cooked with meat, or with its bouillon, or neither.

Pampushka - is a small round bun made of wheat, buckwheat, or mixed wheat and buckwheat dough. Cooked Pampushki served to the borsch instead of bread. Nowadays Pampushki are mostly cooked from wheat flour to serve with borscht.

But also they could be with sweet filling (similar to doughnuts).

In Ukraine Pampushki cooked for the Christmas holidays (mainly on Christmas Eve), during the week to the borsch or "yushka", often by stuffing them with garlic.

"Cutlet Kyiv-style" is a dish made of chicken fillet pounded and rolled around cold butter, then coated with eggs and bread crumbs, and either fried or baked.

Stuffed chicken breast is generally known in Ukrainian cuisines, though it has disputed origins, the dish is particularly popular in the post-Soviet states, as well as in several other countries of the former Eastern Bloc, and in the English-speaking world.

"Gribna yushka" - or Carpathian mushroom soup the national highlight of the Carpathians.

It is very popular in the Carpathians mountains region as this region is rich in mushrooms.

Mushroom soup is the Carpathian first dish of dried white mushrooms, something between gravy and soup.

This is a separate dish, with a fragrant, rich mushroom taste.

Nalisniki - are crepes with filling, a dish that is made from unleavened egg liquid dough in a hot frying pan greased with fat.

Nalisniki are served with various appetizers, sour cream, and filled with jam, mushrooms, meat, berries, cottage cheese, raisins, etc.

This is a traditional dish of Ukrainian cuisine usually served as a dessert or for breakfast.

It is also interesting that at first glance nalisniki are just crepes with filling. In fact, the nalisniki shell differs from the crepes in taste and properties.

Nalisniki are thinner, more elastic, almost tasteless; they are needed to make it convenient to serve the filling so that its taste is not overshadowed by anything.

Syrniki -  a dish of Ukrainian cuisine from cottage cheese and flour, fried in a pan in hot oil.

The most popular are plain syrniki and with raisins, but syrniki with other additives, such as apricots, apples, pears, nuts, and potatoes are also common. On rare occasions, green onions or dill.

Syrniki are eaten with sour cream and jam.

More often served as a dessert or for breakfast.