Ukraine

Borshch

Beet and cabbage soup with pork stock and garlic pampushky, listed by UNESCO.

Varenyky

Boiled dumplings of potato, curd or cherry, served under fried onion or cream.

Salo

Cured pork fat sliced thin with black bread and garlic, a national in-joke and staple.

Deruny

Grated potato pancakes fried in oil, eaten with sour cream or mushroom sauce.

Holubtsi

Cabbage rolls of rice and meat baked in tomato and sour cream.

Kotleta po-kyivsky

Chicken breast rolled around herb butter, breaded and fried so it bursts when cut.

Pampushky

Soft garlic rolls torn apart and dipped into borshch.

Banosh

Hutsul cornmeal cooked in cream with bryndza and pork crackling.

Kholodets

Meat set in its own jelly, served cold with horseradish at winter tables.

Syrniki

Curd cheese pancakes fried golden and eaten with jam and sour cream.

Kutia

Wheat berries with poppy seed, honey and nuts, the first dish of Christmas Eve.

Okroshka

Cold soup of chopped vegetables and egg in kvass or kefir, eaten in heat.

Uzvar

Dried fruit boiled into a smoky compote, drunk with the Christmas meal.

Nalysnyky

Thin pancakes rolled around sweet curd and baked in cream.

Paska

Tall enriched Easter bread, decorated with dough birds and blessed at church.

Kyivskyi tort

Hazelnut meringue layers with buttercream, the city's edible souvenir since 1956.

Kvass

Fermented rye bread drink poured from yellow tankers on the street in summer.

Horilka

Grain spirit, often infused with honey and chilli, drunk with salo and bread.

Halushky

Torn dough dumplings boiled and served with cracklings or in broth.

Zakarpattia bograch

Paprika-red kettle stew from the Carpathian west, cooked over open fire.