Varenyky with a delicious peach and raspberry filling

  We encourage you to cook these tender and sweet Ukrainian dumplings with a filling made of raspberries and peaches. We suggest cooking these varenyky using unleavened dough made with sparkling water with the addition of yolks and dairy butter. These fruit dumplings melt in the mouth and topped with jam, taste fantastic. The members of your family are gonna love it. Ingredients: Dough 320 g flour  50 g flour (for sprinkling) 2 egg yolks 1 tbsp dairy butter  150 ml sparkling water  1/2 tsp salt  Filling 2-3 peaches 180...

8 delicious recipes for kutia (sweet grain pudding)

Kutia or kutya is a special sweet grain dish that is first served at the Ukrainian Christmas Eve Supper (Sviata Vecheria or Svyata Vecherya in Ukrainian). Kutia is not only a delicious dish loved by many but also a symbol of good harvest and abundance for the whole next year. Ukrainian ancestors believed that the tastier and richer Christmas kutia is, the better the harvest and the bigger the family's wealth will be. Depending on what holiday the kutia is prepared for, it can be of three kinds: rich, generous,...

Dumplings with poppy seeds

Looking for delicious Christmas recipes? You may like these A-mazing dumplings (Ukrainian varenyky) stuffed with poppy seeds and served with sour cream/honey. Varenyky are one of the 12 sacred dishes of the traditional Ukrainian Christmas dinner and poppy seeds symbolize wealth and prosperity for the coming year. So it would be a wonderful idea to include them in your festive menu. The dumplings we’re going to cook today have tender wheat-based dough wrapping a luscious filling made of soft poppy seeds and raisins sweetened with sugar. This tastes insanely good....