Ukrainian cuisine has developed over centuries based around farming staples like rye, wheat and barley. Meals are divided into casual and festive, with special dishes cooked for holidays that often had religious significance. Influenced by the widespread use of stone ovens, Ukrainian food is known for dishes that are cooked, stewed or baked like borscht soup, varenyky dumplings, holubtsi stuffed cabbage rolls, and various breads, meats, kasha and sweets. Ukrainians are also renowned for their hospitality and have opened many restaurants serving their national cuisine.

1. Ukrainian cuisine
Good food is wise medicine

2. Food is an important part of
Ukrainian culture.
 Ukrainian cuisine has developed over many
centuries. It was mainly based on the products
obtained from farming. Ukrainians have been
growing rye, wheat, barley, buckwheat and oats.

3. In general, food in Ukraine is divided into
two groups: casual and festive.
 Special dishes are cooked during
holidays. These dishes were including
ritual meals, which carried out a kind of
religious-magical function. Any ceremony
could not take place without them.

4. Festive meals
 Such festive meals are: holodets or
studen' (general), korovai, kalach (for
wedding or other), kolyvo - (for funeral),
kutia - (at Christmas time), krashanka -
(at Easter time).

6. In the past...
Historically, the place of cooking, which is a
stone oven, had a great influence on the
features of Ukrainian cuisine. So, food
was the most cooked, stewed or baked in
Ukraine.

7. Ukrainian cuisine is famous for its huge variety of
all kinds of dishes, ranging from soup to sweets.

8. First Dishes
 borsch
 kapusniak
 rosolnyk
 yushka
 zelenyi borsch

10. Main dishes
 Salads (olivye, vinigret, kvasheni ovochi)
 Breads (paska, babka, kalach,
palyanytsya, pampushki)

12.  Varenyky, perohy, pyrizhky, holubtsi,
pechenya, fish, kasha, potato, guliash,
kovbasa, salo, kotlety, deruny, kruchenyky

13. Drinks
 uzvar
 kvas
 milk, sour milk
 medovukha
 wine, beer, horilka

14. Sweets
 Syrnyky, cakes, halushki, zhele

15. Ukrainians are famed for their
hospitality
 A number of restaurants, bars and cafes
have opened offering excellent food at
reasonable prices with standards of
service to match.
They are waiting for you!!!