Ukrainian Birds

In olden times, these birds were made to invite people in the village to weddings. They also decorate the wedding bread.

Ukrainian Food

Ukrainian food is one of the richest national cuisines. Its dishes are well known far away from Ukraine. And the Ukrainian recipes of the foods are very popular nowadays. Is anyone, who doesn’t know the Ukrainian Borsch?

The Ukrainian food is characterized with large number of components. For example the traditional Ukrainian food – borsch – contains 20 components. The peculiarities have the thermal processing of the products of the dishes. As a rule, there are used several types of thermal processing for the preparing of the food (frying, boiling, stewing, baking). The rules of food processing are strictly held in Ukrainian restaurants, to reach the best taste of the national dishes. The recipes of the Ukrainian cuisine include the number of different fruits and vegetables, as well as meat, poultry, fish, mushrooms and berries. The most common meat product is pork. The meat is present in large amount in first courses, among which the major one is borsch.

In Ukrainian food borsch occupies the first place, but not the single one. The popular dishes are also cereals: millet, buckwheat, pumpkin etc. The rather important place in recipes of Ukrainian food belongs to floury foods: curds, dumplings, grechaniki, cottage cheese patty, potaptsy, pancakes, verguny, mandryky, puchkenyky and others. The rich assortment of egg dishes (fried eggs with “salo” (fat) and sausage etc).

Among the traditional sweet foods the most popular are uswars (stewed fruits) and jellied fruits. To prepare sweet dishes are used plums, apples, pears, apricots, cherries, red currants, strawberries, wild strawberries, raspberries, honey, nuts. Ukrainian cuisine was always famous for the big number of foods with fruits and berries, raised on the Ukrainian lands.

The very tasteful are dishes, which stewed in ceramic pots: roast meat, curds with sour cream, stewed cabbage, potatoes with meat and prunes.

Ukrainian cuisine has dozens thousands of food recipes, which are characterized with plane food cooking and high taste qualities. The modern national culinary art preserved and enriched the old good traditions

22 Fun Fact About UKRAINE

Svitlana Tuchynska
Take a quick lesson on Euro 2012 co-host Ukraine. It is Ukraine, not "the Ukraine."

More than half (53 percent) of the population speaks Ukrainian and 44 percent Russian.

The capital, Kyiv, is mostly a Russian-speaking city.

While the population of Ukraine is 45.6 million, at least 10 million Ukrainians live abroad. Most live in Russia (around four million), Kazakhstan, the U.S., Canada, Moldova, Poland, Argentina and Brazil.

The medieval state ofKyivan Rus, with its capital in Kyiv, was founded by the Vikings in 9th century, according to the most popular theory.

Ukraine claims to be home to the geographical center of Europe, which is near the western town of Rakhiv. Other places in Europe claim to have the center, and the definition depends on the methodology used.