Nowadays muffins, cupcakes, tiramisu, and doughnuts fill all shop windows and restaurant menus. Undoubtedly, these world desserts are delicious, but let’s refresh our memory about amazing sweet authentic dishes from Western Ukraine. It has been known about language borrowings and similarities in clothing ornaments of Ukrainians from Western Ukraine with their European neighbors for long time. This assimilation didn’t go round the culinary field. Hungarians, Polacks, Slovaks, and even Germans gifted Western Ukraine a plethora of tasty recipes which are still popular and well-liked. Hombovtsi Hombovtsi are the Carpathian...
Sweet cheese balls with breadcrumbs (Ukrainian hombovtsi)
If you decide to travel to the Transcarpathian region, don’t miss a chance to try a wonderful dessert with a queer name – hombovtsi. This dish has Hungarian roots and represents ball-size sweets made by kneading and forming cottage cheese. Some recipes also include the addition of different fruits or berries as a filling. Ukrainian curd balls have one peculiarity – they are covered with a mixture of breadcrumbs and sugar before serving. Today I’m going to share with you a classic recipe for hombovtsi - the simple guide...