UKRAINIAN RECIPE LINKS

Courtesy of Dr. Myron Hlynka; hlynka@uwindsor.ca 		 
 

Definitions

  1. Varenyky (or pyrohy or perogies) are dough pockets filled with potato, or potato and cheddar cheese,or kapusta (sauerkraut), or cottage cheese, or blueberries, or cherries, or ... Ukrainian varenyky are boiled and resemble to various degrees Polish pierogi, Russian pilmeni, Italian ravioli,Jewish kreplach, or Chinese wonton. Varenyky are very are often served with onions and sour cream. Mmmmm. The word "varenyky" is used throughout Ukraine.The singular form of "varenyky" is "varenyk." Betcha' can't have just one! The word "pyrohy" is used by Ukrainian American and Ukrainian Canadian descendents of pre World War I settlers from Western Ukraine. The singular form of "pyrohy" is "pyrih." The word "perogies" is a Canadianization/Americanization of "pyrohy."
  2. Holubtsi are Ukrainian cabbage rolls. The filling is mainly rice with a small amount of hamburger (unlike other East European cabbagerolls which are mainly hamburger with a small amount of rice). Cabbage leaves are steamed to make them soft and then the filling is added. The holubtsi are placed in a large pot, covered with tomato soup (or sauce) and baked.The word "holub" in Ukrainian means "dove," and holubtsi are in theshape of a dove.
  3. Borshch is Ukrainian beet soup. Other spellings for "borshch" are "borsch" or "borscht." We prefer "borshch" which would be theofficial Library of Congress transliteration of the Ukrainian word.
  4. Kutya is a Christmas eve mixture of cooked wheat, poppyseed,and honey, served cold as a thick slightly liquid mixture. To do justice to this ambrosia, one should add sliced (candied) red cherries, sliced almonds, and a touch of sherry. Serve in crystal goblets.
  5. Nalysnyky are the Ukrainian version of crepes. Actually crepes are the French version of nalysnyky.
  6. Kovbasa is smoked Ukrainian ham sausage. In our opinion,the finest Ukrainian kovbasa in North America is "Marchyshyn's" from Edmonton. Opinions may vary.
  7. Horilka is the Ukrainian word for vodka.
  8. Kyshka is a sausage made from buckwheat and blood. Don'task any more (especially during the Halloween season).
  9. "Kyiv" is the official Ukrainian government English language spelling of the capital city of Ukraine. So it's "Chicken KYIV" now.

Ukrainian Varenyky

Nalysnyky

Chicken Kiev
 
 

  Recipe Links  
 
  1. Linda Hodge's Ukrainian Language and Culture Page. Check underthe FOOD section. This rest of the site is wonderful as well.Linda is the author of a travel book about Ukraine -
    The Hippocrene Language and Travel Guide to Ukraine.
    http://pages.prodigy.net/l.hodges/ukraine.htm
  2. Ukrainian Recipes. This site in Lviv, Ukraine has a large recipe list.
    http://www.litech.lviv.ua/~guenon/cuisine/index.html
    To see the entire menu, modify the URL to
    http://www.litech.lviv.ua/~guenon/cuisine/menu.html
  3. Sveta's Ukrainian Recipes. This site from Ukraine is bilingual Ukrainian/English. If your browser is Microsoft explorer, click on View, Encoding, Cyrillic in order to read the Ukrainian part.
    http://www.lucky.net/~sveta/K/Ukr/
  4. Vicky's Virtual Ukrainian Kitchen has a nice collection of Ukrainian recipes.
  5. Ukrainian Heritage Festival feast from BRAMA. Included are recipes for varenyky, holubtsi, borshch, potato pancakes, nalysnyky, and studynets.
    http://www.brama.com/yonkersukrainianfest/food.html
  6. Serg and Valeriya's Recipes. This collection includes pidpenky,makivnyk, and kovbasa recipes.
    http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/4664/recipes.html
  7. Ukrainian Recipes from Ukraine. A large selection of recipes in the Ukrainian language only.
    http://www.recipes.f2s.com/
  8. Georgia's Recipe Heaven. Check out the Ukrainian food section with recipes for paska, pyrohy, holubtsi, nut rolls, and more.
    http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/5892/Recipeheaven.html
  9. Tatyana's Ukrainian Recipes. I assume that the webmaster is located in Ukraine.
    http://www.geocities.com/ukrainiancuisine/
  10. K. Landygo's Ukrainian Recipes. Winnipeg.
    http://www.mts.net/~klandygo/ukrrec.html
  11. Lycos Ukrainian Recipes. There is a wide selection here of twenty recipes.
    http://recipes.lycos.com/RecipesbyCateg.asp?Categ=ukrainian
  12. Ukrainian Recipe Collection. This is a collection from Ukraine. None of the recipes are in English. Some are written in Ukrainian, others are written in Russian. Photos.
    http://www.park.kiev.ua/u'pavilion/life/kittchen/id.html
  13. ESL Ukrainian Recipe Discussion Center. There are over 100 recipes here, most contributed by Olga Drozd.
    http://www.eslcafe.com/discussion/wwwboard2/messages/286.html
  14. Niko Dadiani's Ukrainian Recipes
    http://russia-in-us.com/Cuisine/Dadiani/ukrindex.htm#Ukraine - The Breadbasket and the Sugar Bowl
  15. Diana's Gourmet Corner has links to Ukrainian recipes, mainly taken from this page, but with a few others.
    http://belgourmet.com
  16. Deborah's Ukrainian Recipes.
    http://www.alan.co.jp/~deborah/cooking/index.html
  17. Our Kitchen Ukrainian recipes. There are five recipes here from a book of the same name put out by Emmaculate Conception Schools in Hamtramck, Michigan. Get the 5 recipes and book ordering info at the site.
    http://www.ukrainiankitchen.com/about.html
  18. Giant "Pyrih" Monument in Glendon, Alberta.This is not a joke. Take a look at the photo.
    http://md.bonnyville.ab.ca/glendon/pyrogy.html
  19. Chris' Pyrohy Recipe.
    http://megamach.portage.net/~bgidzak/perogy.html
  20. Cheemo's Pyrohy.This site does not give recipes but gives novel methodsof using pyrohy. It's a fun site. Take a look. Under the "What'sNew" section, you can even learn Ukrainian language expressionslike "Pass me the pyrohy, please."
    http://www.cheemo.com/
  21. Varenyky Recipes.
    http://www.infoukes.com/lists/social/1998/02/0007.html
  22. Varenyky from Recipeland.com.
    http://recipes/wenzel.net/v
    In a related site is a nachynka z kapusty filling,
    and a kartopliana nachynka filling.
  23. Recipe Archive: Perogies.
    http://www.ichef.com/ichef-recipes/Eggs/19356.html
  24. Recipe Archive: Poor Man's Perogies. Casserole.
    http://www.ichef.com/ichef-recipes/Pastas/15310.html
  25. Plump Perogies with Mushroom Filling from Canadian Living Online.
    http://www.canadianliving.com/features/food/bonus/plumpperogies.htm
  26. Wayne Gretzky's Restaurant. I didn't know he could cook! Actually, there are no recipes here. But note that the top item on his list of favorite foods is "Grandma Gretzky's perogies." According to the book, "Ukrainian Canadian, Eh" by Michael Czuboka, Wayne's paternal grandmother was born in Pidhaitse, Ukraine. (His paternal grandfather was born in Belarus.)
    http://www.gretzkys.com/restaurant.html
  27. Na Zdorovya Restaurant in Edmonton. Deep fried blueberry pyrohy with ice cream?!! Mmmm!!! I've got to visit this place, even if it is 1500 miles away.
    http://www.nazdorovya.com/nazdorovya.htm
  28. Octoberfest Perogies, by Stacy Cooper. Winner of second prize in Schneider's Recipe contest.
    http://www.schneiders.ca/whatsnew/whatsnewwinner.html
  29. Crockpot Recipes includes a recipe for Stuffed Cabbage: UkrainianStyle.
    http://southernfood.miningco.com/library/crock/blground.htm
  30. Meatless Holubtsi. For the health consious individual.http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/4540/cabgrol.htm
  31. Ukrainian Cabbage Rolls.
    http://net.indra.com/~hiebert/recipe_library/cabbage_rolls.html
  32. Ukrainian Christmas Traditions. This wonderful site includes a recipe section.
    http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/3432/ukr_xmas.html
  33. Sviat Vechir (Christmas Eve) Recipes, contributed by Hryts Naciuk,a respected contributor to the infoukes discussion lists.
    http://www.infoukes.com/culture/traditions/christmas/sviat_vechir.html
    If you're interested in other Ukrainian topics,
    the infoukes site at http://www.infoukes.com is a great place to look.
  34. Ukrainian Christmas Eve Recipes.
    http://www.veg.on.ca/newsletr/novdec96/ukraine.html
  35. Kutia, for Ukrainian Christmas Eve on January 6.
    http://www.ichef.com/ichef-recipes/Appetizers/19140.html
  36. There are lots of recipes for BORSHCH. B-O-R-S-H-C-H is the preferred Ukrainian spelling but many Ukrainians use the alternative spelling b-o-r-s-c-h-t, which is also the standard spelling used by Jewish Americans. Since many Jewish Americans have their roots in Ukraine, there is an area of New York state that has become known as the "borscht belt." This region in the Catskill mountains has lots of hotels and resorts. Many aspiring comedians made their debut performing to audiences in the Borscht Belt. See
    http://borschtbelt.net/
  37. Peter Matiowsky's Borscht recipe.
    http://members.home.net/matiowsky/borscht.htm
  38. Vegetarian Ukrainian Borshch.
    http://www.efl.arts.gla.ac.uk/Mag/recbors1.htm
  39. Nine Links to Ukrainian Borshch.
    http://www.yourrecipelink.com/soupsandstews/borshch/borshch.html
  40. Ukrainian borscht recipe is included in The Cookbook of Damon Wischik.
    http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~djw1005/Recipe/html/borschtukranian.html
  41. Meaty Ukrainian Borscht.
    http://www.epicurious.com/db/recipes/recipesH/8/6008.html
  42. Peter Ostroushko's Ukrainian B-O-R-S-C-H-T lyrics. This page gives the lyrics to the song "B-O-R-S-C-H-T"composed and popularized byUkrainian American mandolin virtuoso Peter Ostroushko.
  43. Ukrainian Pepper Borscht.
    http://www.angelfire.com/me/gaitan/200.html
  44. Ukrainian Borscht, from souprecipe.com
    http://souprecipe.com/az/ukrainianborscht.asp
  45. Ukrainian Borscht. Yet another version.
    http://www.s2f.com/psolley/rbeet4.html
  46. BORSCHT CD. This is a CD put out by Ron Cahute and Ihor Baczynskyj (aka Barabolya). BORSCHT is part of a series of CD's (or tapes) that teach English speaking kids (and adults) a little Ukrainian language. They do this by using lively standard North American popular music, and adding their own lyrics. The new lyrics are still mainly in English but there are Ukrainian words and phrases thrown in. All this is done with a large dose of humor and fun. Ron and Ihor put on a dynamite concert for kids, and the kids don't have to know a word of Ukrainian to come out and have fun. My twins (now eight years old) didn't know any Ukrainian when we took them to their first concert. But we now have five of the tapes and my kids now have an comprehesion vocabulary of about 300 Ukrainian words. And THEY ask me to play the tapes when we are riding in the car!! The tapes are entitled Barabolya, Buryak, Tsyboolya, Borscht and Barabolya High (they have graduated to high school). What Barabolya has done for teaching Ukrainian is marvellous and could be adapted for teaching any language. Bravo!!
  47. Ukrainian Borscht. Kapusta (cabbage) soup, too.
    http://web.wt.net/~daba/recipe/soup.htm
  48. Ukrainian Cabbage soup.
    http://cwr.utoronto.ca/cultural/english/ukraine/eating.html
  49. Peter Matiowsky's Chicken soup recipe.
    http://members.home.net/matiowsky/keystuh.htm
  50. Pampushky. (Ukrainian doughnuts.)
    http://www.enter.net/~rburk/doughnuts/pampushk.txt
  51. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/5811/pampushky.html
  52. Boothbay Harbor Chicken Kyiv,with real butter.
    http://secure.foodwine.com/food/foodday/fd0697/fd061397.html
  53. Chicken Kiev. KOTLETY TSIPLENOKOVO PO-KIEVSKI.
    http://e-cuisines.com/recresult.asp?rid=A875
  54. Ukrainian Chicken Kiev.
    http://www.chickenrecipe.com/AZ/UkrnnChcknKv.asp
  55. Kyshka.
    http://www.infoukes.com/lists/social/1998/02/0006.html
    Immortalized by the songWho Stole the Kyshka.
  56. Cossack Chicken, Potato Pancakes. There are other Ukrainianrecipes here as well.
    http://godzilla.eecs.berkeley.edu/recipes/ethnic/ukrainian/
  57. Ukrainian potato pancakes. Platsky.
    http://www.virtualcities.com/~virtual/ons/nc/a/ncac8011.htm
  58. Soomska Vodka. Look at the male and female Ukrainian dancers.
    http://www.soomska.com/
  59. Michael Burianyk's Horilka web site. A nice visually appealing site. No recipes here. Many dated links.
    http://www.cadvision.com/nburiany/horilka/horilka.htm
  60. Admiral Vodka. fron Ukraine.
    http://admiralvodka.freeyellow.com/index1.html
  61. Nemiroff Vodka. fron Ukraine.
    http://www.ukrnet.net/~nemiroff/nemiroff.htm
  62. Obolon Beer web page. OK. There are no recipes here, but this is a web site for Ukraine's favorite beer.
    http://www.obolon.kiev.ua/eng/index.php3
  63. Ukrainian Aphrodisiacs. No recipes here. But maybe you'll find something to make you LOVE Ukrainian food even more.
    http://www.santesson.com/aphrodis/ukraine.htm
  64. Medivnyk. (Ukrainian Honey Cake.)
    http://www.trentu.ca/academic/math/sb/misc/medivnyk.html
  65. Ukrainian Almond Crescent Cookies.
    http://www.ebicom.net/kitchen/page/cookies/ukraini.htm
  66. Ukrainian Cheesecake is part of this collection of cheesecake recipes.
    http://www.floras-hideout.com/recipes/mxp/chcake/273.html
  67. Ukrainian Poppy Seed Cake.
    http://ucook.com/ShowSelectedRecipes.cfm?recipe_id_list=8932
  68. Ukrainian apple cake plus about 10 other Ukrainian recipes at the ammas.com recipe site.
    http://www.ammas.com/u/u/u1.cfm
  69. Ukrainian Herring Pate.
    http://www.travelcorner.com/Recipes/herringpate.htm
  70. Ukrainian Chilled Fish in Sauce.
    http://www.eslcafe.com/discussion/wwwboard2/messages/3670.html
  71. Herb Stuffed Pork Chops. Ukrainian style.
    http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Grove/3928/MeltingPot22.html
  72. A Glossary of Ukrainian food terms. Under "varenyky," it saysthat on a 1995 trip to Ukraine, Bill Clinton declared that varenyky were one of his favorite foods.
    http://winwww.ts.kiev.ua/kiev/food/efood1.htm
  73. Recipe Center.com Search on "Ukrainian".
    http://www.recipecenter.com/
  74. A.J. Lill Consultants has a recipe section which includesUkrainian recipes for paska, babka, rye bread, and kovbasa. Search under"Ukrainian."
  75. Morten's Recipe Collection (Denmark). This huge recipesite includesrecipes for borshch, cottage cheese varenyky, holubtsi,and "Ukrainian cheese cake." Search under "Ukrainian."
    http://chef2chef.net">
  76. Recipe Archives. Search on "Ukrainian" to recipes for kovbasa, pickled beets, cabbage soup,...
    http://www.taronga.com/cgi-bin/recipes_search
  77. The Recipe Pages. Search on "Ukrainian." There are seven entries.
    http://www.recipepages.com/cgi-bin/search.pl
  78. Kitchen Link page. Search under "Ukrainian" for recipes anddiscussion.
    http://www.kitchenlink.com/cgi/public_frames?page=search

Horylka (Vodka)
  There are numerous Ukrainian cook books in English. Most are published by local church groups so may be hard to locate. TheInfoukes Bookstore
lists a few Ukrainian cook books.
Yevshan, the Montreal Ukrainian mail order company, has a list ofits Ukrainian cook books for sale. Link toYevshan cook books.
The Ukrainian Bookstore in Edmonton has a mail order business. Its cookbooks are listed at
http://www.ukrainianbookstore.com/literature/cookbooks.htm The following is a woefully incomplete list of

Ukrainian cook books in English.
  1. Traditional Ukrainian Cookery - by Savella Stechishin.
    This is the "classic" Ukrainian cookbook, published byTrident Press in Winnipeg. It is easily Trident Press'all time best seller. There have been something like 20printings? The first edition came out in 1957. Highly Recommended.
  2. The Best of Ukrainian Cuisine - by Bohdan Zahny, 1998.
    A review appears in Zdorov! (Summer, 1998 issue)
  3. Festive Ukrainian Cooking - by Marta Pisetska Farley, 1990. Nice book.
  4. Our Kitchen Ukrainian recipes. There are five recipes here from a book of the same name put out by Emmaculate Conception Schools in Hamtramck, Michigan. Get the 5 recipes and book ordering info at the site.
    http://www.ukrainiankitchen.com/about.html
  5. "MEAL TIME FAVORITES" Polish and Ukrainian Cuisine. by Rosie Olenick In English. 2001?
  6. Ukrainian Recipes - by Joanne Asala. Penfield Press.1996. 160 pages. Spiral Bound.
  7. Ukrainian Cuisine. Georgievsky, N. I., et al Kiev: "Technika"Publishers, 1975 229pp. Illustrated.
  8. THE UKRAINIAN COOKBOOK: 76 TRADITIONAL RECIPES FOR TODAY'S LIVING. Kostecka, Madame. Philadelphia, PA: International Institute of Philadelphia. 1960. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS COURTESY OF THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF AMERICA IN PHILADELPHIA, PA.
  9. Ukrainian Cookery Recipes. S.A. Shalimov, V.A. Lysenko, A.I. Verstiuk. Kiev Technika Publishers, 1980. 127p
  10. THE ART OF COOKING UKRAINIAN STYLE: Lesia Ukrainka Branch of UWAC: Vancouver, 1965
  11. Ukrainian Favourites. Ukrainian Women's Organization of Canada. St. Catharines Branch, 1981
  12. Baba's Cook Book. Linkiewich, Emily, Illustrated by Line Drawings Vegreville, Alberta: Self Published, 1980 Soft Cover Plastic Coil Bound. Second Edition. 152 Pages.
  13. Pioneer Cook Book: Centennial Edition. Ukrainian Catholic Women, Bruno, Saskatchewan. Ukrainian Catholic Women/Icon Press, 1967.
  14. Cooking... Ukrainian Style - Traditional and Modern Recipes. The Ukrainian Women's Association of Canada - Yorkton Branch ("Olena Pchilka" Branch). Yorkton, Saskatchewan: 112 pages.
  15. Valentina's Ukrainian Kitchen. Popel, Valentina. Fargo ND (1983). 222pp.
  16. Ukrainian Cuisine. Georgievsky, N.I., et al. Technika Publishers, 1975. 229 pp.
  17. Ukrainian Daughter's Cookbook. (Ukrainian Women's Association of Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan, 1999)
  18. Selected Ukrainian Recipes for Winter Season. Horodysky, Daria. Branch 12 Ukrainian National Women's League of America, 1978.