Ukrainian banosh – Why do you need to fall in love to cook this national dish?

  Banosh is one of the most popular traditional Hutsul dishes in Ukraine. If you at least once try this dish, then, probably, you’ll become its die hard fan. A dense cornmeal mush served with flavorful cracklings and brynza is rich and appetizing. The “cousins” of banosh are Italian polenta and Polish/Moldavian mamalyha. In Italy this dish is cooked using water or cream and coarse maize grits, while in the Carpathians banosh is boiled using fine-ground corn grits or cornmeal and homemade sour cream. In such a way, a nourishing...