🍜Borscht with donuts🥯
Real Ukrainian borscht is a must try. Appetizing, rich, warming from the inside. They say that in the country there are more than a dozen recipes for the legendary soup. Take the classic, with bacon, fish or festive mushroom "with ears" - all options are good. The special taste of borscht is emphasized by sour cream, a little dill, garlic donuts. If the latter was not found, a sandwich with bacon and onions would be a great alternative.
🍗Kiev cutlet
You can try the famous cutlets all over Ukraine, not only in Kyiv. Crispy on the outside, incredibly juicy on the inside. Tender chicken meat, golden crust of breadcrumbs, creamy filling - impossible to resist. In fact, Kiev cutlets are deep-fried chicken chops rolls. Inside is a piece of butter with cheese, mushrooms, egg yolk, herbs or garlic. Eat with potatoes, snack on croutons with thick gravy, drink local beer - yummy!
🍖Krucheniks
Ukraine is famous for its meat dishes, so you should definitely try them. Krucheniki - fried meat rolls with a variety of fillings. To cook them, a delicious filling is applied to a beef or pork chop. It can be anything: rice with an egg, cheese with garlic, lard with cabbage, minced mushrooms, prunes or something else. Then the meat is rolled into a roll, tied with a thread, fried in a pan until golden brown. And then stew in meat sauce until soft. It turns out a very juicy snack, which is good even without a side dish.
🧄Snacks with lard
Try real Ukrainian salo in Kyiv or any other city in the country. It is eaten raw, salted, smoked, fried - gourmets should evaluate all options. Of course, with croutons or rye bread and green onions. Be sure to try the legendary sandwich with garlic lard in Ukraine. In addition, it is worth trying 3 local delicacies that either cause rejection or become love at first bite:
1. Cracklings - heavily fried pieces of bacon or meat with fat, a popular snack for beer.
2. Kulesh - millet with cracklings and onions.
3. Salo in chocolate. Yes, this is not a joke (by the way, many people like it).
🥔 Potato pancakes
Vegetarians in Ukraine will also find something to eat. However, pancakes should be tried by everyone else. These are hearty ruddy pancakes familiar to us, which include only potatoes, eggs and salt. They are prepared all over Ukraine, and are always served with sour cream. It is worth trying not only classic potato pancakes. Order options with the addition of onions, bacon, garlic, cheese, or with gravy of meat, chicken, mushrooms. Ukraine is rightfully proud of potato pancakes. A monument to this dish has been erected in Korosten and a festival is held in its honor.
🍚Banush
Ukrainian dish of Hutsul cuisine, which is also worth a try for tourists, despite its apparent simplicity. Banush is corn porridge boiled with milk or cream. Of course, this is not all. It is served with crispy cracklings and salted cheese. The combination is incredible, non-standard, even a little strange. But this is only at first glance. It is worth eating a spoon - it will not be easy to stop.
🥐Dumplings
Be sure to eat Ukrainian dumplings in Poltava style. The dough for them is prepared on kefir. That is why they are so tender, juicy, invariably tasty. The most popular - with potatoes. In Ukrainian cuisine, they are usually served with greaves in onion frying. In second place in popularity, of course, are cherries. They can be poured with sour cream or ghee. Even in Ukraine, tourists should eat dumplings with cottage cheese, mushrooms, berries, sauerkraut, cheese. Take any, you won't go wrong!
Ukrainian desserts🍰🧁
Legendary Kyiv cake🎂! He was beautiful many years ago, he is still amazing. These cream roses, airy cakes, chocolate filling… The original recipe for the legendary dessert is kept secret. Therefore, you can buy the "same" Kiev cake only in Ukraine.
Other delicious desserts worth trying:

1.🍯 Cheesecakes with sour cream, jam or condensed milk.
2.🧇Perekladenets - a sweet puff pastry made from yeast dough with berries, poppy seeds or fruits.
3.🥓Verguns are “brushwood” cookies familiar to many, but they are fried in lard.
4.🥞Nalistniki - the thinnest egg pancakes with a delicious sweet filling of cottage cheese or fruit.
5.🧁Plyatski - poppy, cottage cheese, almond, fruit or other cakes, consisting of several layers with a layer.
6.🍩Slastoni - soft blush donuts with a golden crust.
7.🥧Smetannik - tender cheesecake stuffed with sour cream

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦Ukraine is a very hospitable and delicious country and we are happy to share a piece of our culture with everyone who comes to us