Ukrainian food?

Question

Okay I am going overseas. I need help with what are some good dishes. Additionally, if you could spell the words (with the English letters) for beef, chicken, fish, lamb and pork so I at least have some kind of idea what I am ordering that would be great.

Answer 1

Varenyky (or pyrohy or perogies) are dough pockets filled with potato, or potato and cheddar cheese,or kapusta (sauerkraut), or cottage cheese, or blueberries, or cherries, or ... Ukrainian varenyky are boiled and resemble to various degrees Polish pierogi, Russian pilmeni, Italian ravioli,Jewish kreplach, or Chinese wonton. Varenyky are very are often served with onions and sour cream. Mmmmm. The word "varenyky" is used throughout Ukraine.The singular form of "varenyky" is "varenyk." Betcha' can't have just one! The word "pyrohy" is used by Ukrainian American and Ukrainian Canadian descendents of pre World War I settlers from Western Ukraine. The singular form of "pyrohy" is "pyrih." The word "perogies" is a Canadianization/Americanization of "pyrohy."
Holubtsi are Ukrainian cabbage rolls. The filling is mainly rice with a small amount of hamburger (unlike other East European cabbage rolls which are mainly hamburger with a small amount of rice). Cabbage leaves are steamed to make them soft and then the filling is added. The holubtsi are placed in a large pot, covered with tomato soup (or sauce) and baked.The word "holub" in Ukrainian means "dove," and holubtsi are in the shape of a dove.
Borshch is Ukrainian beet soup. Other spellings for "borshch" are "borsch" or "borscht." We prefer "borshch" which would be the official Library of Congress transliteration of the Ukrainian word.
Kutya is a Christmas eve mixture of cooked wheat, poppyseed,and honey, served cold as a thick slightly liquid mixture. To do justice to this ambrosia, one should add sliced (candied) red cherries, sliced almonds, and a touch of sherry. Serve in crystal goblets.
Nalysnyky are the Ukrainian version of crepes. Actually, crepes are the French version of nalysnyky.
Kovbasa is smoked Ukrainian ham sausage. In our opinion,the finest Ukrainian kovbasa in North America is "Marchyshyn's" from Edmonton. Opinions may vary.
Horilka is Ukrainian hard liquor.
Kyshka is sausage made from buckwheat and blood. Don't ask any more (especially during the Halloween season).








Traditional dishes

Soup
Borscht—vegetable soup (most common form made with beets), popular among eastern Slavic nations. There are more than thirty regional recipes for cooking Borshch, often with meat).
Hrybivka—mushroom soup, served with vushka in Volyn region.
Kapusniak and solyanka—sauerkraut soups.
Rosolnyk—soup with pickles, sometimes served with kidneys.
Yushka—fish soup, made of fresh-water fish, usually carp.
Vushka or holushky—"little ears" rolled triangular dumplings, sometimes stuffed with mushrooms in soup or on the side .

Salad
Olivye (from French "Olivier") —called the "Russian salad" in the West.
Vinihret (from French "Vinaigrette") —red beet root salad with peas, onions and beans.
Pickles — Pickled cucumbers (kvasheni ohirky) or tomatoes (kvasheni pomidory) are usually made with garlic and dill. Also, sauerkraut (kvashena kapusta).
Kapustianyi—sauerkraut or fresh shredded cabbage, served with mayonnaise, oil, topped with klukva or grated walnuts.
Vesnianyi—diced cucumbers and tomatoes, topped with dill or parsley, when in season.
Oseledets—pickled herring, usually served with onions, black pepper and sunflower oil.
Pid-shuboyu—beetroot salad with pickled herring, apple and onion, topped with mayonnaise.
Marinated mushrooms—usually served as an appetizer, also garnished with oil and onions.

Breads
Breads and wheat products are very important to Ukrainian cuisine. Decorations on the top can be very elaborate for celebrations.

Paska — traditional rich Easter bread. It is shaped in a short round form. The top of the paska is decorated with typical Easter symbols, such as roses or crosses.
Babka - another Easter bread, usually a sweet dough with raisins and other dried fruit. It is usually baked in a tall, cylindrical form.
Kolach - ring-shaped bread typically served at Christmas and funerals. The dough is braided, often with three strands representing the Holy Trinity. The braid is then shaped into a circle (circle = kolo in Ukrainian) representing the circle of life and family.
Korovai - a round, braided bread, similar to the kolach. It is most often baked for weddings and its top decorated with birds and periwinkle.

Main course

Pyrohy— baked/fried dumplings. Usually more of a desert-type with fruit or poppy seed fillings and a sweeter dough than that of the Varenyky.
Varenyky (often called perogies in English)— boiled dumplings, usually filled with potatoes, cabbage, cheese, or seasonal fruits, topped with butter and sugar or shkvarky (fried bits of salo and onions), accompanied with sour cream.
Cabbage rolls (holubtsi)—cabbage (or vine) leaves stuffed with minced meat and rice or millet (pshono), or buckwheat-stuffed beet leaves.
Syrnyky—cottage cheese fritters, sometimes with raisins.
Mlyntsi—crepes (blyntsi or nalisnyky), filled usually with cottage cheese, meat, caviar or fruits.
Stuffed duck or goose—with apples.
Game—hare, quail, wild boar and moose meat is also prepared when available.
Roast meat (pechenya)—pork, veal, beef or lamb roast.
Fish (ryba)—fried in egg and flour; cooked in oven with mushrooms, cheese and lemon; marinaded, dried or smoked variety.
Studynets—jellied fish (zalyvne) or meat (kholodets).
Stuffed zucchini or eggplant—oven-roasted, stuffed with tomatoes, bell peppers, mushrooms, and/or rice.
Kasha hrechana zi shkvarkamy—buckwheat cereal with chopped, fried bacon and/or onion.
Potato (kartoplia, also barabolia or bulba)—young or peeled, served with butter, sour cream, dill; princely variety includes raw egg.
Huliash—refers to stew in general, or specifically Hungarian goulash.
Sausage (kovbasa or sosysky)—various kinds of smoked pork, beef or chicken sausage.
Salo—salted pork fat, similar to bacon but with significantly higher ratio of fat to meat, or occasionally raw pig fat (sometimes jokingly referred to as Ukraine's "official food". Other Slavs sometimes call Ukrainians by this name as they find the thought of eating it unpleasant).
Kotlety (cutlets)—(plural; singular - kotleta) minced meat or fish fritters, sometimes rolled in breadcrumbs.
Shashlyk—a Georgian shish kebab: lamb and vegetables/mushrooms marinated in vinegar and grilled on skewers under white wine.
Deruny or pliatsky—potato fritters, usually served with rich servings of sour cream; another variation of a dish – ‘’deruny’’ fried with some cottage cheese in the middle.
Kanapky—either black or white bread (fresh or slightly grilled)-based canapés, topped with mayo or butter, caviar, smoked herring, cucumber/tomato slices garnished with dill or parsley.

Desserts
Kutia—traditional Christmas dish, made of poppy seeds, wheat, nuts, honey, and delicacies.
Pampushky— fried, rich sweet dough similar to doughnut holes. Frequently tossed with cinnamon sugar. Pampushky (pl., singular is pampusho'k) can also be filled with poppy seed or other sweet fillings.
cake — many varieties of cakes, from moist to puffy, most typical ones being Kyjivskyj, Prazhskyj, and Trufelnyj. They are frequently made without flour, instead using ground walnuts or almonds.
Zhele—(plural and singular) jellied fruits, like cherries, pears, etc. or "Ptashyne moloko"—milk/chocolate jelly.

Beverages

Alcoholic
Strong spirits (horilka, vodka in Russian)—Samohon (moonshine) is also popular, including with infusions of fruit, spices or hot peppers.
Beer (pyvo)—the largest producers of beer are Obolon, Lvivske, Chernihivske, Slavutich, Sarmat and Rogan, which partly export their products.
Wine (vyno)—from Europe and Ukraine (particularly from Crimea).
Mead (mid, or medovuha)—very ancient recipe of honey wine which is regaining popularity. It tastes similar to cider, and comes in various proofs, depending on vintage.

Non-alcoholic
Compote (kompot)—sweet beverage made from dried or fresh fruits and/or berries.
Kvas—sweet-and-sour beverage made from bread through similar process to brewing beer.
Kefir—fermented milk drink (varying degrees of sour; depends how long fermented). Contains millions of healthy microflora per cup.[citation needed] Supports health.
Mineral water—famous brands are Truskavetska, Morshynska and Myrhorodska, they usually come strongly carbonated.
Ryazhanka - cooked milk.




Recipe Links
Linda Hodge's Ukrainian Language and Culture Page. Check underthe FOOD section. This rest of the site is wonderful as well.Linda is the author of a travel book about Ukraine -
The Hippocrene Language and Travel Guide to Ukraine.
http://pages.prodigy.net/l.hodges/ukraine.htm
Ukrainian Recipes. This site in Lviv, Ukraine has a large recipe list.
http://www.litech.lviv.ua/~guenon/cuisine/index.html
To see the entire menu, modify the URL to
http://www.litech.lviv.ua/~guenon/cuisine/menu.html

Sveta's Ukrainian Recipes. This site from Ukraine is bilingual Ukrainian/English. If your browser is Microsoft explorer, click on View, Encoding, Cyrillic in order to read the Ukrainian part.
http://www.lucky.net/~sveta/K/Ukr/
Vicky's Virtual Ukrainian Kitchen has a nice collection of Ukrainian recipes.
Ukrainian Heritage Festival feast from BRAMA. Included are recipes for varenyky, holubtsi, borshch, potato pancakes, nalysnyky, and studynets.
http://www.brama.com/yonkersukrainianfest/food.html
Serg and Valeriya's Recipes. This collection includes pidpenky,makivnyk, and kovbasa recipes.
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/4664/recipes.html
Ukrainian Recipes from Ukraine. A large selection of recipes in the Ukrainian language only.
http://www.recipes.f2s.com/
Georgia's Recipe Heaven. Check out the Ukrainian food section with recipes for paska, pyrohy, holubtsi, nut rolls, and more.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/5892/Recipeheaven.html
Tatyana's Ukrainian Recipes. I assume that the webmaster is located in Ukraine.
http://www.geocities.com/ukrainiancuisine/
K. Landygo's Ukrainian Recipes. Winnipeg.
http://www.mts.net/~klandygo/ukrrec.html
Lycos Ukrainian Recipes. There is a wide selection here of twenty recipes.
http://recipes.lycos.com/RecipesbyCateg.asp?Categ=ukrainian
Ukrainian Recipe Collection. This is a collection from Ukraine. None of the recipes are in English. Some are written in Ukrainian, others are written in Russian. Photos.
http://www.park.kiev.ua/u'pavilion/life/kittchen/id.html
ESL Ukrainian Recipe Discussion Center. There are over 100 recipes here, most contributed by Olga Drozd.
http://www.eslcafe.com/discussion/wwwboard2/messages/286.html
Niko Dadiani's Ukrainian Recipes
http://russia-in-us.com/Cuisine/Dadiani/ukrindex.htm#Ukraine - The Breadbasket and the Sugar Bowl
Diana's Gourmet Corner has links to Ukrainian recipes, mainly taken from this page, but with a few others.
http://belgourmet.com
Deborah's Ukrainian Recipes.
http://www.alan.co.jp/~deborah/cooking/index.html
Our Kitchen Ukrainian recipes. There are five recipes here from a book of the same name put out by Emmaculate Conception Schools in Hamtramck, Michigan. Get the 5 recipes and book ordering info at the site.
http://www.ukrainiankitchen.com/about.html
Giant "Pyrih" Monument in Glendon, Alberta.This is not a joke. Take a look at the photo.
http://md.bonnyville.ab.ca/glendon/pyrogy.html
Chris' Pyrohy Recipe.
http://megamach.portage.net/~bgidzak/perogy.html
Cheemo's Pyrohy.This site does not give recipes but gives novel methodsof using pyrohy. It's a fun site. Take a look. Under the "What'sNew" section, you can even learn Ukrainian language expressionslike "Pass me the pyrohy, please."
http://www.cheemo.com/
Varenyky Recipes.
http://www.infoukes.com/lists/social/1998/02/0007.html
Varenyky from Recipeland.com.
http://recipes/wenzel.net/v
In a related site is a nachynka z kapusty filling,
and a kartopliana nachynka filling.
Recipe Archive: Perogies.
http://www.ichef.com/ichef-recipes/Eggs/19356.html
Recipe Archive: Poor Man's Perogies. Casserole.
http://www.ichef.com/ichef-recipes/Pastas/15310.html
Plump Perogies with Mushroom Filling from Canadian Living Online.
http://www.canadianliving.com/features/food/bonus/plumpperogies.htm
Wayne Gretzky's Restaurant. I didn't know he could cook! Actually, there are no recipes here. But note that the top item on his list of favorite foods is "Grandma Gretzky's perogies." According to the book, "Ukrainian Canadian, Eh" by Michael Czuboka, Wayne's paternal grandmother was born in Pidhaitse, Ukraine. (His paternal grandfather was born in Belarus.)
http://www.gretzkys.com/restaurant.html
Na Zdorovya Restaurant in Edmonton. Deep fried blueberry pyrohy with ice cream?!! Mmmm!!! I've got to visit this place, even if it is 1500 miles away.
http://www.nazdorovya.com/nazdorovya.htm
Octoberfest Perogies, by Stacy Cooper. Winner of second prize in Schneider's Recipe contest.
http://www.schneiders.ca/whatsnew/whatsnewwinner.html
Crockpot Recipes includes a recipe for Stuffed Cabbage: UkrainianStyle.
http://southernfood.miningco.com/library/crock/blground.htm
Meatless Holubtsi. For the health consious individual.http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/4540/cabgrol.htm
Ukrainian Cabbage Rolls.
http://net.indra.com/~hiebert/recipe_library/cabbage_rolls.html
Ukrainian Christmas Traditions. This wonderful site includes a recipe section.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/3432/ukr_xmas.html
Sviat Vechir (Christmas Eve) Recipes, contributed by Hryts Naciuk,a respected contributor to the infoukes discussion lists.
http://www.infoukes.com/culture/traditions/christmas/sviat_vechir.html
If you're interested in other Ukrainian topics,
the infoukes site at http://www.infoukes.com is a great place to look.
Ukrainian Christmas Eve Recipes.
http://www.veg.on.ca/newsletr/novdec96/ukraine.html
Kutia, for Ukrainian Christmas Eve on January 6.
http://www.ichef.com/ichef-recipes/Appetizers/19140.html
There are lots of recipes for BORSHCH. B-O-R-S-H-C-H is the preferred Ukrainian spelling but many Ukrainians use the alternative spelling b-o-r-s-c-h-t, which is also the standard spelling used by Jewish Americans. Since many Jewish Americans have their roots in Ukraine, there is an area of New York state that has become known as the "borscht belt." This region in the Catskill mountains has lots of hotels and resorts. Many aspiring comedians made their debut performing to audiences in the Borscht Belt. See
http://borschtbelt.net/
Peter Matiowsky's Borscht recipe.
http://members.home.net/matiowsky/borscht.htm
Vegetarian Ukrainian Borshch.
http://www.efl.arts.gla.ac.uk/Mag/recbors1.htm
Nine Links to Ukrainian Borshch.
http://www.yourrecipelink.com/soupsandstews/borshch/borshch.html
Ukrainian borscht recipe is included in The Cookbook of Damon Wischik.
http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~djw1005/Recipe/html/borschtukranian.html
Meaty Ukrainian Borscht.
http://www.epicurious.com/db/recipes/recipesH/8/6008.html
Peter Ostroushko's Ukrainian B-O-R-S-C-H-T lyrics. This page gives the lyrics to the song "B-O-R-S-C-H-T"composed and popularized byUkrainian American mandolin virtuoso Peter Ostroushko.
Ukrainian Pepper Borscht.
http://www.angelfire.com/me/gaitan/200.html
Ukrainian Borscht, from souprecipe.com
http://souprecipe.com/az/ukrainianborscht.asp
Ukrainian Borscht. Yet another version.
http://www.s2f.com/psolley/rbeet4.html
BORSCHT CD. This is a CD put out by Ron Cahute and Ihor Baczynskyj (aka Barabolya). BORSCHT is part of a series of CD's (or tapes) that teach English speaking kids (and adults) a little Ukrainian language. They do this by using lively standard North American popular music, and adding their own lyrics. The new lyrics are still mainly in English but there are Ukrainian words and phrases thrown in. All this is done with a large dose of humor and fun. Ron and Ihor put on a dynamite concert for kids, and the kids don't have to know a word of Ukrainian to come out and have fun. My twins (now eight years old) didn't know any Ukrainian when we took them to their first concert. But we now have five of the tapes and my kids now have an comprehesion vocabulary of about 300 Ukrainian words. And THEY ask me to play the tapes when we are riding in the car!! The tapes are entitled Barabolya, Buryak, Tsyboolya, Borscht and Barabolya High (they have graduated to high school). What Barabolya has done for teaching Ukrainian is marvellous and could be adapted for teaching any language. Bravo!!
Ukrainian Borscht. Kapusta (cabbage) soup, too.
http://web.wt.net/~daba/recipe/soup.htm
Ukrainian Cabbage soup.
http://cwr.utoronto.ca/cultural/english/ukraine/eating.html
Peter Matiowsky's Chicken soup recipe.
http://members.home.net/matiowsky/keystuh.htm
Pampushky. (Ukrainian doughnuts.)
http://www.enter.net/~rburk/doughnuts/pampushk.txt
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/5811/pampushky.html
Boothbay Harbor Chicken Kyiv,with real butter.
http://secure.foodwine.com/food/foodday/fd0697/fd061397.html
Chicken Kiev. KOTLETY TSIPLENOKOVO PO-KIEVSKI.
http://e-cuisines.com/recresult.asp?rid=A875
Ukrainian Chicken Kiev.
http://www.chickenrecipe.com/AZ/UkrnnChcknKv.asp
Kyshka.
http://www.infoukes.com/lists/social/1998/02/0006.html
Immortalized by the songWho Stole the Kyshka.
Cossack Chicken, Potato Pancakes. There are other Ukrainianrecipes here as well.
http://godzilla.eecs.berkeley.edu/recipes/ethnic/ukrainian/
Ukrainian potato pancakes. Platsky.
http://www.virtualcities.com/~virtual/ons/nc/a/ncac8011.htm
Soomska Vodka. Look at the male and female Ukrainian dancers.
http://www.soomska.com/
Michael Burianyk's Horilka web site. A nice visually appealing site. No recipes here. Many dated links.
http://www.cadvision.com/nburiany/horilka/horilka.htm
Admiral Vodka. fron Ukraine.
http://admiralvodka.freeyellow.com/index1.html
Nemiroff Vodka. fron Ukraine.
http://www.ukrnet.net/~nemiroff/nemiroff.htm
Obolon Beer web page. OK. There are no recipes here, but this is a web site for Ukraine's favorite beer.
http://www.obolon.kiev.ua/eng/index.php3
Ukrainian Aphrodisiacs. No recipes here. But maybe you'll find something to make you LOVE Ukrainian food even more.
http://www.santesson.com/aphrodis/ukraine.htm
Medivnyk. (Ukrainian Honey Cake.)
http://www.trentu.ca/academic/math/sb/misc/medivnyk.html
Ukrainian Almond Crescent Cookies.
http://www.ebicom.net/kitchen/page/cookies/ukraini.htm
Ukrainian Cheesecake is part of this collection of cheesecake recipes.
http://www.floras-hideout.com/recipes/mxp/chcake/273.html
Ukrainian Poppy Seed Cake.
http://ucook.com/ShowSelectedRecipes.cfm?recipe_id_list=8932
Ukrainian apple cake plus about 10 other Ukrainian recipes at the ammas.com recipe site.
http://www.ammas.com/u/u/u1.cfm
Ukrainian Herring Pate.
http://www.travelcorner.com/Recipes/herringpate.htm
Ukrainian Chilled Fish in Sauce.
http://www.eslcafe.com/discussion/wwwboard2/messages/3670.html
Herb Stuffed Pork Chops. Ukrainian style.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Grove/3928/MeltingPot22.html
A Glossary of Ukrainian food terms. Under "varenyky," it saysthat on a 1995 trip to Ukraine, Bill Clinton declared that varenyky were one of his favorite foods.
http://winwww.ts.kiev.ua/kiev/food/efood1.htm
Recipe Center.com Search on "Ukrainian".
http://www.recipecenter.com/
A.J. Lill Consultants has a recipe section which includesUkrainian recipes for paska, babka, rye bread, and kovbasa. Search under"Ukrainian."
Morten's Recipe Collection (Denmark). This huge recipesite includesrecipes for borshch, cottage cheese varenyky, holubtsi,and "Ukrainian cheese cake." Search under "Ukrainian."
http://chef2chef.net">
Recipe Archives. Search on "Ukrainian" to recipes for kovbasa, pickled beets, cabbage soup,...
http://www.taronga.com/cgi-bin/recipes_search
The Recipe Pages. Search on "Ukrainian." There are seven entries.
http://www.recipepages.com/cgi-bin/search.pl
Kitchen Link page. Search under "Ukrainian" for recipes anddiscussion.
http://www.kitchenlink.com/cgi/public_frames?page=search

Horylka (Vodka)
There are numerous Ukrainian cook books in English. Most are published by local church groups so may be hard to locate. TheInfoukes Bookstore
lists a few Ukrainian cook books.
Yevshan, the Montreal Ukrainian mail order company, has a list ofits Ukrainian cook books for sale. Link toYevshan cook books.
The Ukrainian Bookstore in Edmonton has a mail order business. Its cookbooks are listed at
http://www.ukrainianbookstore.com/literature/cookbooks.htm The following is a woefully incomplete list of

Ukrainian cook books in English.
Traditional Ukrainian Cookery - by Savella Stechishin.
This is the "classic" Ukrainian cookbook, published byTrident Press in Winnipeg. It is easily Trident Press'all time best seller. There have been something like 20printings? The first edition came out in 1957. Highly Recommended.
The Best of Ukrainian Cuisine - by Bohdan Zahny, 1998.
A review appears in Zdorov! (Summer, 1998 issue)
Festive Ukrainian Cooking - by Marta Pisetska Farley, 1990. Nice book.
Our Kitchen Ukrainian recipes. There are five recipes here from a book of the same name put out by Emmaculate Conception Schools in Hamtramck, Michigan. Get the 5 recipes and book ordering info at the site.
http://www.ukrainiankitchen.com/about.html
"MEAL TIME FAVORITES" Polish and Ukrainian Cuisine. by Rosie Olenick In English. 2001?
Ukrainian Recipes - by Joanne Asala. Penfield Press.1996. 160 pages. Spiral Bound.
Ukrainian Cuisine. Georgievsky, N. I., et al Kiev: "Technika"Publishers, 1975 229pp. Illustrated.
THE UKRAINIAN COOKBOOK: 76 TRADITIONAL RECIPES FOR TODAY'S LIVING. Kostecka, Madame. Philadelphia, PA: International Institute of Philadelphia. 1960. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS COURTESY OF THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF AMERICA IN PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Ukrainian Cookery Recipes. S.A. Shalimov, V.A. Lysenko, A.I. Verstiuk. Kiev Technika Publishers, 1980. 127p
THE ART OF COOKING UKRAINIAN STYLE: Lesia Ukrainka Branch of UWAC: Vancouver, 1965
Ukrainian Favourites. Ukrainian Women's Organization of Canada. St. Catharines Branch, 1981
Baba's Cook Book. Linkiewich, Emily, Illustrated by Line Drawings Vegreville, Alberta: Self Published, 1980 Soft Cover Plastic Coil Bound. Second Edition. 152 Pages.
Pioneer Cook Book: Centennial Edition. Ukrainian Catholic Women, Bruno, Saskatchewan. Ukrainian Catholic Women/Icon Press, 1967.
Cooking... Ukrainian Style - Traditional and Modern Recipes. The Ukrainian Women's Association of Canada - Yorkton Branch ("Olena Pchilka" Branch). Yorkton, Saskatchewan: 112 pages.
Valentina's Ukrainian Kitchen. Popel, Valentina. Fargo ND (1983). 222pp.
Ukrainian Cuisine. Georgievsky, N.I., et al. Technika Publishers, 1975. 229 pp.
Ukrainian Daughter's Cookbook. (Ukrainian Women's Association of Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan, 1999)
Selected Ukrainian Recipes for Winter Season. Horodysky, Daria. Branch 12 Ukrainian National Women's League of America, 1978.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Ukrainian Kapusta Recipe

Answer 4

Here is a link from another poster, in your other question on this subject:

http://www.ukraine-today.com/culture/food/food.shtml

Some other must haves are:

Pelminy is very similar to varenyky, except it has no meat in it. Both are very similar to Italian tortellini. You can not leave Ukraine without eating borshch - and it is a good time of year to have cold borshch. Fish is popular this time of year, but you will find beef based foods not as popular because of the exceptionally high cost of beef in Ukraine.

And peroshki/perozhok - which are what the post before mine clumps in with verenyky, but are actually any bread stuffed with anything (quite different than verenyky. The best, and most popular are stuffed with apples/raisins, berries, or sesame.

Knowing the words for the foods you desire is much more important than knowing "beef, chicken, fish, lamb, and pork" though - and you will not find them in Latin (English) letters on menus. But, they are:рыба/ryba (fish), говядина/gov'adina (beef), свинина/svinina (pork), ягненок/yagnenok (lamb), цыпленок/cyplenok (chicken). These are actually in Russian, and will be understood in Ukraine (East and West Ukraine).

Here is a link to a good site, with some basic phrases you should know to buy food in Ukraine or Russia (and despite what some may tell you, all Ukrainians understand Russian, but not all Ukrainians understand Ukrainian):

http://www.waytorussia.net/whatisrussia/...

It has the words in Russian (Cyrillic), spelled phonetically in English letters, and audio so you can hear it pronounced.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

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Answer 10

im ukranian and i got tons of recepices from the city but i dont know how to explain them if your going to the celo where farmers have animals then i have like 3 or 4 recipes i dont know how to explain them.

Answer 11

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