Top 8 Ukrainian dishes that were popular with Cossacks

Ukraine celebrates the Day of Ukrainian Cossacks On October 1. They once defended our land in the same way as the Armed Forces do now.

OBOZ.UA offers you to discover how Cossacks lived in those days, as well as what they ate to be strong to defeat the enemy. FoodOboz presents the top 8 dishes that Ukrainian Cossacks used to eat.

Kulish

This dish was considered sacred. It was cooked at home for the whole family to enjoy, as well as during campaigns, using huge cauldrons. By the way, this is why kulish was called "field porridge". It was made from millet, which had to be boiled until it became mushy. It was seasoned with onions and garlic. It could be served as an independent dish or in combination with fish or meat.

Halushky

This is an extremely nutritious, tasty, and easy-to-prepare dish. That is why it was cooked almost every day. The unleavened dough, which was kneaded with whey or water, was boiled in small pieces in salted water. Halushky could also be added to vegetable or meat soup to create new dishes.

Potaptsi

Slices of rye bread were fried in lard fat. Then Cossacks put lard on a piece of bread with garlic and herbs. In those days, this dish was considered the perfect vodka snack.

Pork head with horseradish

Pork head with horseradish is a well-known Cossack meat dish. To prepare it, you need to clean the head and boil it, adding a variety of vegetables and spices to the pot, for several hours. During this time, you have to prepare horseradish. To do this, grate the root on a fine grater, fry in vegetable oil, and add dried flour. After mixing thoroughly, poured broth over the mixture and add sour cream and warm vinegar mixed with salt and sugar. Bring the mixture to a boil and pour the resulting sauce over the pork head.

Solomakha

Solomakha is a dish made from buckwheat, wheat, or rye, which was used to make a liquid dough. It was poured into boiling water and brewed, stirring constantly. Garlic and oil or lard were added to the finished dish. It was considered one of the most common delicacy during Cossack campaigns.

Kapusnyak

There is an assumption that cabbage soup appeared in the diet of the Cossacks at the end of the Zaporizhzhia Sich's existence. This may be because researchers have not been able to find the original recipe for this dish. Still, there is a possibility that kapusnyak, like modern borscht, simply does not have an original recipe and each housewife had her own one.

Shcherba and teterya

Shchebra was the first dish that all Cossacks adored. It was made from fish soup, to which cooked liquid flour was added. A little later, this dish turned into teterya, because the fighters began to add pre-boiled millet porridge to it. The porridge was prepared in an interesting way too as during cooking, sour rye dough was added to it.

Meat dishes

Meat has always been in short supply among the Cossacks because they practically did not keep house. However, in those days, there were quite a few hares, bears, deer and other wild animals, which Cossacks hunted down and turned into delicious dinners.