Ukrainian cuisine- cooking secrets of your ukrainian bride! |
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Ukrainian cuisine: what do you know about it? Ukrainian cuisine is widely favored not only in former Soviet countries, but far beyond it's bounds as well. The one who once tasted a spicy Ukrainian borsch (red-beet soup) or famous varenikis (Ukrainian ravioli) with cherry filling, will forever remain it's devoted admirer. Ukrainian women's cooking habit is to cook much. Inasmuch as their national cuisine is famed for abundance and ingenuity. An Ukrainian girl would be sure to make as many choices of one and the same dish as her resourcefulness and imagination would let her go. Ukrainians usually take various foodstuffs and spices and mix them in a thousand different ways. Would you, for example, resist delicious galushkis (small bits of pastry boiled in water, milk or broth) either of wheat or buckwheat, potato or cottage cheese, custard or crackers? You may be sure your Ukrainian wife would treat you to galushkis with lard, ham or apples. Therefore take care as not to grow too stout too quickly from your mistress' home cooking. One more feature of the Ukrainian cuisine is a large number of floury dishes. As for meat, pork is largely preferred. Lard is used in many ways: in meat, vegetable and even sweet courses. This item is one the most favored and widely consumed ones. Lard is eaten both raw, salty, boiled, smoke-dried, grilled or fried. Is also used as filling to different meat courses, cooked on and largely added to sweets, mixed with sugar and syrup. Vegetables and greens have a significant place in Ukraine's national cookery. But the first place is firmly held by beetroot - a compulsory ingredient to numerous variety of soups and skillies. It only seems that cooking a borsch or vareniks is easy. As a matter of fact there's a number of secrets to it. And the principal one, which touches upon everything, is good mood. Any dish, cooked with an open heart, will be really appetizing. This all provides for unique taste and softness of the Ukrainian dishes. | ||||