Holubtsi are a wonderful dish of the Ukrainian cuisine known by many Ukrainians since their childhood and loved for its amazing juiciness and richness. It is hardly possible to imagine both the everyday and festive Ukrainian table without this dish.
The mystery of origin. Which “nationality” do holubtsi have?
The name for stuffed cabbage rolls in the Ukrainian language is “holubtsi.” There are many versions of how this word appeared. One of them is that the word “holubtsi” derived under the influence of the French cuisine, that was popular in the second half of the XIX century, when fried pigeons (“holuby”)...