page_title: Ukrainian cuisine
section_title: Soups
hierarchical_section_title: Ukrainian cuisine / Soups
caption_attribution_description: English: Borscht can be served hot or cold. It is usually served with sour cream and sometimes dill.
context_page_description: Ukrainian cuisine is the collection of the various cooking traditions of the Ukrainian people accumulated over many years. The cuisine is heavily influenced by the rich dark soil from which its ingredients come and often involves many components.
  The national dish of Ukraine that undeniably originates from the country is borsch. However, varenyky and holubtsi are also considered national favourites of the Ukrainian people and are a common meal in traditional Ukrainian restaurants.
  Often referred to as the “breadbasket of Europe” the Ukrainian cuisine emphasizes the importance of wheat and grain to the Ukrainian people and its often tumultuous history with it. The majority of Ukrainian dishes descend from ancient peasant dishes based on plentiful grain resources such as rye as well as staple vegetables such as potato, cabbages, mushrooms and beetroots. Ukrainian dishes incorporate both traditional Slavic techniques as well as other European techniques, a by product of years of foreign jurisdiction and influence.
  The Ukrainian cuisine incorporates a variety of different food branches due to the large size of the country and the plentiful edible resources.
context_section_description: Borscht is a vegetable soup made out of beets, cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, dill. There are about 30 varieties of Ukrainian borscht. It may include meat or fish.
  Kapusnyak: soup made with pork, salo, cabbage, and served with smetana (sour cream).
  Rosolnyk: soup with pickled cucumbers.
  Solyanka: thick, spicy and sour soup made with meat, fish or mushrooms and various vegetables and pickles.
  Yushka: clear soup, made from various types of fish such as carp, bream, wels catfish, or even ruffe.
  Zelenyj borshch (green borscht) or shchavlevyj borshch (sorrel soup): water or broth based soup with sorrel and various vegetables, served with chopped hard-boiled egg and sour cream.
caption: Ukrainian borshch with smetana
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