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: $12.73* Lowest Used Price: $6.27* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 10:48 Pacific 21 Mar 2010 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.

Ukrainian Recipes By Joanne Asala Penfield Pr Spiral-bound (160 pages) List Price: $6.95* Lowest New Price: $6.95* Lowest Used Price: $22.86* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 10:48 Pacific 21 Mar 2010 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.END

The Best of Ukrainian Cuisine (Hippocrene International Cookbook Series) By Bohdan Zahny Hippocrene Books Paperback (308 pages) List Price: $16.95* Lowest New Price: $10.97* Lowest Used Price: $9.67* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 10:48 Pacific 21 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here ISBN13: 9780781806541 Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description: This compendium of Ukranian 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 Ukranian grandmother could provide. The Best of Ukranian Cuisine gives away grandmother's trade secrets, enabling cooks to create everything from a simple salad to an entire Ukranian feast. Living up to its name, this cookbook offers recipes for Ukranian 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 Ukranian cuisine provide dishes that are rich in flavor and nutrition, as well as easy to prepare. Includes a complete list of menu items in Ukranian and English.