Ukrainian National Cuisine

Ukrainians eat with pleasure their national meals as well as other countries' cuisine. But Ukrainian meals are the most common and every housewife can cook the following:

Borsch - a souplike dish consisting of meat, potatoes, beats, cabbage, tomato sauce and sometimes beans. Although these are the basic components, every housewife has their own version of borsch.

Vareniki - dumplings (with curd, meat, potatoes, cherries etc), boiled in water or steamed. It is usually served with sour cream. One can get vareniki at food shops as semi-finished products.

Pampushk- small rolls, served with garlic sauce.

Galushki- pastry rolls, cooked and served with soup.

Golubtsy- a rissole rolled in cabbage leaves and cooked in sour cream or tomato sauce.