Ukrainians love beets and we have many recipes with this amazing veggie. Starting from first dishes and ending with salads. Today I’m gonna share with you one more variation of a beet salad. Arranged in bright layers, this salad is exceptionally yummy and festive. It will become a great idea for special occasions. The salad has a shockingly unique combination of ingredients – beets for vibrant color, walnuts for crunchiness, raisins for sweetness, carrots – for brightness, cheese – for smoothness, and garlic – for a sharp note. Ingredients:...
Ukrainian beet salad – Vinegret
If you’ve recognized this salad, then you’re Ukrainian:)) Vinegret is also popular in Russia and other post-Soviet states. At most holidays and family gatherings, you will find a bowl of this vibrant, healthy and nutritious salad on a table. Although it is called “vinegret” in Ukrainian, which may sound to you like a vinaigrette, it’s a real salad, not a dressing. If you look at ingredients of this salad, you’ll understand why this salad was so popular during winter holidays for Ukrainian ancestors – because it is cooked of...
Secrets of cooking the perfect herring under fur coat
Schuba is a popular multi-layered salad in Ukraine and many other countries of the former USSR. The lower layer of the salad is the cut salted herring fillet covered gradually by layers of onion, potato, carrot, and beetroot. Sometimes the sequence of layers can differ, but the last layer is mostly beetroot. Herring in fur coat is in great demand since its recipe includes affordable products which are available all year round. In Ukraine it is served during many feasts together with Ukrainian horilka. Probably, these particular peculiarities together with...