It is a national Ukrainian dish. Ukrainian varenyky with sour cherry filling are tasty and nourishing. They are usually cooked in summer when people can buy some fresh sour cherries. However, you can make varenyky with frozen sour cherries as well. There is a long list of ingredients which you can add to your dumplings: cottage cheese, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, boiled beans, mushy peas, fruits. But this dish become well-known thanks to writer Nikolai Gogol, who created “The Fair of Sorotchinetz”. The author was born in a small village called Sorochyntsi, in...
How to make classic Ukrainian borsch: the ultimate beetroot soup
Borsch – is one of the most ancient and popular Ukrainian dishes. There is no profound information about its origin till XV century, but such dish had been cooked years before. The first mention about borscht were dated by Cossack times. According to Ukrainian legend, that the first-ever traditional borscht was made during the two-month siege of Cossacks fortress, which had been occupied by Turkish army. The main ingredient of borscht is beetroot. This traditional Ukrainian vegetable allows the soup to have bright red color and sweetish taste. It is obviously to add cabbage and tomatoes in borscht, and...