What to eat in Kyiv
Ukrainian cooking in the capital: borscht with garlic pampushky, varenyky, salo and potato pancakes, holubtsi, Kyiv cake, uzvar and fruit infusions.

[ ] Eat borscht with pampushky
    A beetroot soup on meat stock with cabbage, served with sour cream and garlic pampushky. The colour should be deep ruby rather than brown.
[ ] Try varenyky
    Boiled half-moon dumplings filled with potato, curd cheese, cabbage, cherries or berries. Savoury ones come with crackling and sour cream, sweet ones with sour cream and sugar.
[ ] Eat deruny
    Pancakes of raw grated potato fried until the edges crisp, with sour cream or a mushroom sauce. A plain dish that lives entirely on the freshness of the potato.
[ ] Try salo
    Salted or smoked pork fat sliced thin, with dark bread, garlic and mustard. It is eaten as a snack rather than used for frying.
[ ] Try holubtsi
    Cabbage leaves stuffed with mince and rice, braised in a tomato and sour cream sauce. The meat-free version with mushrooms, buckwheat or millet is as common as the meat one.
[ ] Eat chicken Kyiv
    A chicken fillet wrapped around cold herb butter, breaded and fried. The butter should run out when you cut it, and that is the entire effect.
[ ] Try banosh
    Cornmeal porridge cooked in sour cream with brynza cheese, crackling and fried mushrooms. A Hutsul dish from the Carpathians, served in a cast-iron pot.
[ ] Try kruchenyky and pechenya
    Meat rolls stuffed with mushroom, cheese or vegetables and braised in a sour cream sauce, plus pechenya, a pot roast with potato and mushrooms.
[ ] Try kholodets
    A meat aspic set in its own stock with garlic, served cold with horseradish or mustard. A winter and holiday starter rather than an everyday dish.
[ ] Try pickles from the market
    Fermented cabbage, salted cucumbers, tomatoes, mushrooms and soaked apples sold loose from barrels. An essential part of the table with meat, salo and spirits.
[ ] Try the Kyiv cake
    Two meringue layers with cashews and a charlotte buttercream filling under a chocolate pattern. Created in the 1960s and now a symbol of the city.
[ ] Eat syrnyky
    Curd cheese fritters fried to a golden crust with sour cream, jam or honey. A breakfast on the menu of almost every café in the city.
[ ] Try plyatsky and sweet pampushky
    Plyatsky are layered home-style cakes with poppy seed, nuts and jam, and sweet pampushky are filled yeast buns. Galician baking, sold by the slice in bakeries.
[ ] Drink uzvar
    A brew of dried apples, pears, plums and cherries, lightly sweetened with honey. Drunk cold all year and required on the Christmas Eve table.
[ ] Try riazhanka and kefir
    Riazhanka is baked milk fermented to a creamy thickness with a caramel flavour. Milder than kefir and drunk on its own or at breakfast.
[ ] Try nalyvka and horilka
    Homemade infusions on cherry, sloe, guelder rose or honey — sweet and not very strong — plus horilka with pepper and honey. Drunk in small glasses with food.

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