Ukrainian Recipes & Cookbooks

How to Cook dishes from Ukraine

• Borscht - Beet soup. There are more than 30 different varieties of borscht eaten in the Ukraine.
  
  
• Deruny - Potato pancakes stuffed with cottage cheese.
  
  
• Holubtsi - Cabbage leaves stuffed with ground meat and rice, or millet.
  
  
• Hrybivka - Mushroom soup. It is often served with vushka (triangular dumplings).
  
  
• Kapustianyi - Salad made from sauerkraut or shredded fresh cabbage.
  
  
• Kholodets - Jellied meat.
  
  
• Kotlety - Fish or ground meat cutlets. They are sometimes rolled in bread crumbs before cooking.
  
  
• Mlyntsi - Crêpes filled with caviar, cottage cheese, meat or fruit.
  
  
• Oseledets - Pickled herring with onions, black pepper and sunflower oil.
  
  
• Paska - A traditional bread, eaten at Ester. The dough contains butter, eggs and sugar as well as flour, and it is glazed with egg and water. Inside the bread is yellow and white, the yellow is said to represent Christ, and the white to represent the Holy Spirit.
  
  
• Pliatsky - Potato pancakes served with sour cream.
  
  
• Solyanka - A thick spicy sour soup. It can made from with meat, fish or mushrooms, and also contains pickled cucumbers, salty mushrooms, cabbage, smetana (sour cream), and dill.
  
  
  
• Varenyky - Boiled dumplings filled with cabbage, cheese, potato or fruit.
  
  
  
• Vesnianyi - Salad made from diced cucumbers and tomatoes with dill or parsley.
  
  
• Vinihret - Salad made from red beetroot.
  
  
• Yushka - A soup made from freshwater fish such as carp.
  
  
• Zalyvne - Jellied fish.

• Eastern European Recipes & Cookbooks

Festive Ukrainian Cooking By Marta Pisetska Farley University of Pittsburgh Press Hardcover (240 pages) List Price: $19.95* Lowest New Price: $12.64* Lowest Used Price: $8.07* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 03:03 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: More than a cookbook, Festive Ukrainian Cooking is also a definitive account of traditional Ukrainian culture as perpetuated in family rituals and lovingly celebrated with elegantly prepared food and drink.

The Veselka Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from the Landmark Restaurant in New York's East Village By Tom Birchard Thomas Dunne Books Released: 2009-10-27 Hardcover (272 pages) List Price: $27.99* Lowest New Price: $16.75* Lowest Used Price: $15.41* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 03:03 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: For more than fifty years, customers have crowded into Veselka, a cozy Ukrainian coffee shop in New York City’s East Village, to enjoy pierogi, borscht, goulash, and many other unpretentious favorites. Veselka (rainbow in Ukrainian) has grown from a simple newsstand serving soup and sandwiches into a twenty-four-hour gathering place, without ever leaving its original location on the corner of East Ninth Street and Second Avenue. Veselka is, quite simply, an institution. The Veselka Cookbook contains more than 150 recipes, covering everything from Ukrainian classics (potato pierogi, five kinds of borscht, grilled kielbasa, and poppy seed cake) to dozens of different sandwiches, to breakfast fare (including Veselka’s renowned pancakes), to the many elements of a traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve feast. Veselka owner Tom Birchard shares stories about Veselka’s celebrity customers, the local artists who have adopted it as a second home, and the restaurant’s other lesser-known, but no less important, longtime fans, and he offers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to serve five thousand gallons of borscht a year and to craft three thousand pierogi daily---all by hand. The Veselka Cookbook will delight anyone with an interest in Ukrainian culture, New York City’s vibrant downtown, and the pleasures of simple, good food.

Ukrainian Cuisine with an American Touch and Ingredients By Nadejda Reilly Xlibris Paperback (760 pages) List Price: $23.99* Lowest New Price: $19.79* Lowest Used Price: $42.36* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 03:03 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: It is a unique cookbook with original Ukrainian recipes flavored with Nadejda Reilly's personal touch. It contains brief history of Ukraine and cultural and traditional background of it's people. In addition, it includes author's personal stories of faith as well as her cooking and baking experiences and who influenced them.

The Best of Ukrainian Cuisine (Hippocrene International Cookbook Series) By Bohdan Zahny Hippocrene Books Paperback (308 pages) List Price: $16.95* Lowest New Price: $9.92* Lowest Used Price: $4.90* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 03:03 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: This compendium of Ukrainian cookery contains more than just your typical babka and borshch--it features more than 200 authentic Ukranian recipes with the special touch that, until now, only a Ukrainian grandmother could provide. The Best of Ukrainian Cuisine gives away grandmother's trade secrets, enabling cooks to create everything from a simple salad to an entire Ukrainian feast. Living up to its name, this cookbook offers recipes for Ukrainian favorites, such as kasha (buckwheat groats), potato pancakes, and stuffed cabbage, along with popular contemporary dishes like pike sautéed in sour cream and apple babka. The inventive cooking techniques and wide variety of ingredients found in Ukrainian cuisine provide dishes that are rich in flavor and nutrition, as well as easy to prepare. Includes a complete list of menu items in Ukrainian and English.

Ukrainian Recipes By Joanne Asala Penfield Press Spiral-bound (160 pages) List Price: $7.95* Lowest New Price: $7.95* Lowest Used Price: $16.87* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 03:03 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: This spiral-bound index card size book contains dozens of traditional recipes from Ukrainian-American kitchens. Makes a great gift or "stocking stuffer" for friends and relatives. Features authentic recipes plus illustrations of egg designs from Luba Perchyshyn of the Ukrainian Gift Shop, Inc., located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Recipes include hot punch, vanilla babka, fresh tomato and melon soup, braised carrots with scallions, meat pies with butter and onion sauce, and sour cream cheesecake. Also included are menus for Christmas and weddings. Christmas Bread with Honey p. 114 Christmas bread is usually made with buckwheat honey, which gives it its strong taste and dark color. This recipe makes one large loaf. 2 1/2 cups honey 8 eggs (at room temperature) 3/4 stick butter, softened 2 cups sugar 6 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 tablespoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon nutmeg grated peel and juice of 1 orange 1 cup strong, black coffee 1 cup sour cream 1 cup walnuts (optional) In a small saucepan, heat honey to boiling. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Separate eggs, reserving the whites. Beat the yolks and butter together until fluffy. Add the cooled honey and sugar and continue beating. Sift together the dry ingredients and add to the honey mixture. Add the orange peel and juice, coffee, and sour cream. Whip the egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold into the batter a little at a time. Stir in the nuts. Pour into a greased and floured bread pan and bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour. Do not open the oven door during the first half of baking. Cool on wire racks. The bread may be wrapped in aluminum foil and stored for several weeks.

Culinaria Russia: Ukraine-georgia-armenia-azerbaijan (Cooking) By Marion Trutter Ullmann Paperback (371 pages) List Price: $24.95* Lowest New Price: $15.04* Lowest Used Price: $29.61* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 03:03 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Food and culture are inexorably tied together. The Culinaria series reports on every aspect of the cuisine of a country within the context of the people who created it. One of the most successful series in cook book history, these new editions are updated with the guidance of first-class chefs, and come in a durable flexi-cover format to withstand abuse while spending time in the kitchen. The teams behind each Culinaria volume spend months in the region they are working on, allowing them time to fully absorb all of the food and drink a country can offer. Profusely illustrated with spectacular photography and abundantly peppered with authentic recipes, these volumes are a treat for both the mind and the palate. Learn about the history behind the dishes, their cultural significance, and how to prepare them. Beautiful photographs take you on a tour from the local villages to inside the kitchen where you will find the final product. Enormous variety of magnificent photographs and tempting recipes together with knowledgeable text that is easy for readers and cooks of all skill levels to understand.

Ukrainian Cuisine (Ukrainian Cuisine: Salads, Soups and Vegetables) By Chef Yure Released: 2011-07-21 Kindle Edition (13 pages) List Price: $0.99* *(As of 03:03 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Ukrainian Cuisine Salads, Soups and Vegetable Recipes.