Ukrainian cuisine — rich agricultural tradition, black soil = best products. Borscht, dumplings, salo, bread. Slavic identity.
Borscht
Borscht — national dish (UNESCO 2022). Red beet soup with cabbage, potatoes, meat, onion, carrot, tomato. With salo, garlic, sour cream. Simmered 3 days.
Varenyky
Varenyky — Ukrainian identity. With potato and cheese, cabbage, meat, cherry, strawberry. With onion and lard. With sour cream. Every grandmother her own recipe.
Salo
Salo — national symbol. Salt-cured or smoked pork fat. On black bread with garlic and cucumber. Borodinsky bread. Joke: Ukrainian flag — yellow-blue because salo and salo.
Bread
Black rye bread — base. White wheat. Paska (Easter). Kalach. Bread and salt — symbol of welcome. Ukrainian grandmothers — best bakers in world.
Syrniki
Syrniki (cheese pancakes) — Ukrainian classic. Cottage cheese + flour + egg + sugar, fried in butter. With sour cream, jam, honey. Breakfast or dessert.
Holubtsi
Holubtsi — meat with rice wrapped in cabbage leaf, stewed in tomato sauce. Classic of all Slavic cuisines.
Drinks
Horilka — Ukrainian national drink (earlier Poland). Khrin (horilka with horseradish), Nemiroff, Khortytsia. Uzvar (compote from dried fruit), kvass (from rye bread), kysil (starchy juice). Tea with viburnum.