People in Ukraine like to eat good and tasty food cooked of fresh product. Fast food is not very popular in Ukraine as Ukrainian women prefer to cook at home. And many of them are real masters at cooking.Since old time Ukrainian national cooking has been famous for great variety of tasty and useful dishes. Ukrainian women always collected recipes of cooking different dishes. This tradition is kept nowadays as well.The most popular dish in Ukraine which every Ukrainian lady can cook is borshch. It has up to 20 components. There is a proverb that says: “Each hostess has her borshch” as there is a lot of variants to cook it.Soups are very popular in Ukraine. And you can find a lot of them in Ukrainian cuisine. The most popular of them are yushka, sherba (fish soup) , chicken broth, noodle soup, pea soup, mushroom soup and milk soup. All of them are very tasty.Ukrainians cook meat in different ways. You will be able to try here cutlets, boiled meat, meat dumplings, fried and roasted meat. People usually have meat as the second course or as main course. As garnish or as a side dish they usually have fried, boiled or mashed potatoes, vegetables cooked in different ways or salads.There are a lot of dishes cooked from flour. In Ukraine you can try varenyks, pancakes, halushkas and different kinds of pies.Among traditional drinks you will find kvas, uzvar, stewed fruit, juice, sour milk. Sure, tea, coffee and cocoa are also very popular here nowadays.Traditionally Ukrainian alcoholic drinks are not very strong. They are good wines, honey drinks and beer. Stronger drinks, like horilka, traditionally had herbs and were used in small doses to warm the body but not to make the person drunk.
