What modern Ukrainians cook: 5 most popular dishes

Modern Ukrainians greatly honor their national culinary traditions. Despite the diversity of different cuisines around the world, every home continues to cook and love their traditional dishes.

FoodOboz editorial team has collected 5 most popular dishes cooked by modern Ukrainians.

Of course, borsch, stuffed cabbage, bacon, and jellied meat have always been popular Ukrainian dishes. But it's worth noting that according to Google searches over the past year, the following dishes were the most popular among Ukrainians:

• Solyanka
• Potato pancakes
• Kharcho soup
• Pancakes
• Pampushki

1. Hodgepodge

This dish appeared around the XIV-XV centuries. Solyanka was then called a thick soup, usually cooked in fish broth with spicy seasonings. Later, other variants appeared: meat or mushroom. Only one thing has remained unchanged: the rich broth, sharp salty-sour taste, and strong aroma of spices. The soup is also made with pickles, kvass, olives, mushrooms, and lemon.

Recipe for hodgepodge with smoked meats

Ingredients:

• Any meat - 450 g
• Ham, sausage - 300 g
• Lemon - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 2-4 cloves.
• Onions - 2 pcs.
• Pickled cucumbers - 2-4 pcs.
• Olives - 10 pcs.
• Any greens - 1 bunch
• Tomato paste - 1 tbsp. l
• Sour cream - 2-3 tbsp.
• Salt, pepper - to taste
• Bay leaf - 1-2 pcs.

Method of preparation:

1. Wash the meat, cut it into medium pieces, put it in a saucepan, cover with water, add a whole onion, and cook until it boils.
2. When the meat is cooked in the broth, chop the ham and sausage and add to the pot, stir.
3. Chop pickles and olives and add to the broth, bring to a boil.
4. Chop the onion with the garlic and fry in vegetable oil, add the tomato paste, salt, pepper and cook for about 10 minutes.
5. Add the finished roast to the broth, stir and cook for another 5-10 minutes.
6. Let the dish stand, and add sour cream and lemon to the plates before serving.

2. Pancakes

This dish has a fascinating history - the recipe for potato pancakes was first published in 1830 by a Polish-born chef named Jan Szitler. It is believed that this particular cooking method and ingredients laid the foundation for the modern recipe for pancakes. It is known that Schitler borrowed and slightly improved the recipe of German potato pancakes.

Ukrainians prepare this dish very often, especially during the season of young potatoes, and season it with sour cream and herbs.

Recipe for potato pancakes

Ingredients:

• potatoes - 1 kg
• eggs - 1-2 pcs.
• flour - 3 tbsp
• salt, pepper - to taste
• garlic - 2 cloves.
• onion - 1 pc.
• oil - 2-3 tbsp. l.

Method of preparation:

1. Wash and peel the potatoes, grate on a coarse grater.
2. Add eggs, salt, flour, pepper, grated onion and garlic, and mix.
3. Heat a frying pan, pour in vegetable oil, spoon in the pancakes and fry until golden brown on both sides.
4. Serve the dish hot, with sour cream and herbs.

3. Kharcho soup

This is a national Georgian soup made of beef and rice, as well as walnuts and tklapi or sour tkemali sauce, which Ukrainians love. It is very spicy, hot, with garlic and herbs. It is worth noting that it differs from ordinary soups in its consistency - it is very thick.

4. Pancakes

Pancakes are an easy-to-prepare but extremely tasty dish that is the main symbol of the Shrovetide holiday. Ukrainians cook them not only for this holiday, but also at any time, especially for breakfast. You can make delicious fillings for them, ranging from meat to cheese, apples, and poppy seeds.

Pancake recipe

Ingredients:

• milk - 500 ml
• eggs - 3 pcs.
• flour - 200 g
• butter (or oil) - 30 g (2 tbsp)
• sugar 30 g - (2 tbsp)
• salt 2-3 g - (1/2 tsp)

Method of preparation:

1. Beat eggs with sugar, add milk, mix thoroughly.
2. Sift the flour and add it, mix to get the consistency of liquid sour cream, pour in the vegetable oil and stir.
3. Heat a frying pan and fry thin pancakes.

5. Pampushki

These are the best addition to Ukrainian borscht, especially if you grate them with garlic and oil. They are very easy to prepare - you just need to make good dough and a delicious garlic dressing.

Recipe for fluffy donuts

Ingredients for the dough:

• 1 cup warm water
• 1 tbsp of sugar
• 3 tbsp of sunflower oil
• a pinch of salt
• 1 sachet of dry yeast
• 3 cups of flour
• 5 cloves of garlic

dressing:

• 1 tsp. salt
• 2 tbsp of sunflower oil
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 50 ml of cold water
• 50 g of dill

Method of preparation:

1. Sift the flour well so that it is saturated with oxygen.
2. In a bowl, mix the oil, sugar, salt, yeast, and flour and knead the dough.
3. Roll it into small balls.
4. Put them in a greased baking dish at a distance of about 1 cm from each other and place in a warm place for about 5-10 minutes.
5. Filling: grate the garlic, add oil, salt, chopped dill, and mix thoroughly.
6. Put the donuts in the oven to bake for 15 minutes at 180 C.
7. Take them out and brush with the garlic dressing.