UKRAINIAN FOOD: WHAT DO UKRAINIANS EAT IN A DAY? (buckwheat and banush porridge recipes)
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Interested in Ukrainian National Food and Cuisine?
The video was mead in collaboration with @ThatLvivGirl
In this video, we will answer the following questions:
What are some typical homemade dishes that Ukrainians eat daily?
What does a typical Ukrainian lunch and breakfast table look like?
What sort of dishes are very typical in a Ukrainian household?
Are Ukrainians experiencing food and product shortages or deficit like it was during the Soviet Union?
How to cook Banosh or buckwheat porridge?
The most famous traditional Ukrainian dishes are borshch, varenyky, holubtsi, Chicken Kyiv, banosh, and syrnyky, and it surely is not an exhaustive list. But do regular Ukrainians eat all these dishes every day? In this video, I will explain everything.
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Great video Jane ,interesting topic , i like the sub titles and learning the Ukrainian words at the end which is a good idea, take care.
Thanks 🙏🇺🇦
look forward to cooking with Jane🧑🍳i have my buckwheat,did i try banosh
Great video again! Thank you! I can't wait to try cooking my own Banosh and Kasha for breakfast) Нехай Бог береже вас і вашу родину!
Thank you for your comment
Tourist spots are really nice, but an insight into just an "'ordinary day in the life" content is fascinating and relateable. 💛💙.
Thank you very much for the comment
Hope you have a good day and please take good care of yourself, dear Eugenia! We are with you and I will definitely not unsubscribe from you! I would like to learn more. I appreciate everything you are sharing with us! I would like to hear about what kind of work you do, and if that needed to change when you had to move West to Lviv.
I really appreciate you sharing with us some of your own cooking! I would enjoy seeing more of that. I have looked up several Ukrainian recipes, and I am hoping to try them in the next month while I’m in Ohio helping my parents. I am hoping to make borsch soon for my family, and I purchased some buckwheat but I have not cooked it yet. Growing up my mom sometimes made us buckwheat pancakes, but I have not yet tried making it myself.
We cook something similar to Banosh, but I cannot tell exactly how fine the corn is ground for your Banosh. We make three different things with ground cornmeal. Very fine cornmeal is turned into a hot cereal we call cornmeal mush. You can add butter and salt, and plain yogurt if you want to make it savory and creamy; or you can add maple sugar or brown sugar, or maple syrup or sorghum molasses on top, berries or cherries etc if you want it sweet. (I grew up on a fruit farm, so we were usually adding fruit in wherever possible!) We put leftover cornmeal mush into a loaf pan and it gets very solid. The next day we slice that and fry it in a pan, similar to a pancake or French toast. That way it is very good with maple syrup, berries or peaches and whipped cream! More coarsely ground dried corn is made into polenta or grits, and in my household these were served in savory recipes rather than sweet ones. But like most hot cereals, you can really go either way depending upon your mood for sweet or salty food.
Especially in wintertime, it was really nice to have something hot inside us when we went outdoors to do chores, or to play in the snow. Most winter mornings we had hot cereals, what you call porridge, and that was very comforting and warming! My favorites are Oatmeal cooked in milk with dried fruit and topped with Maple sugar or sorghum molasses; Hot cooked rice cereal with raisins, or dried cherries or chopped dried apricots cooked in the cereal; and salty creamy cheesy grits cooked in milk and having shredded cheddar cheese stirred in at the end, topped with butter salt & pepper! Some people also add chopped green onions, mushrooms or peppers, and a protein source to their grits, such as shrimp, chopped bacon or brown sausage. 😋 Yum, now I’m getting hungry!! Hopefully you had a good day and can sleep well tonight. 💙🙏🏽💛🖖🏼🇺🇦💪🏽🌻🛌
Dear Saly, thank you for watching my videos:) I am still exploring the new cute recipes that I can show to people:) I just have found one new simple and tasty - will try to cook it:)
I'm glad you are feeling better!
Thanks for the food video. Really, everything you post is interesting and worth waiting for.
Thank you for your comment, I feel better now, I'm glad you liked it
In America....we have versions of every cultures foods ...
☺️Very familiar
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦
God Bless the USA - a true friend of Ukraine and all democratic nations ❤
I am keeping exploring the recipes:) found another one very good:)
I love making and eating banush!
Fantastic video. I need to explore buckwheat! (No snails) lol 🇨🇦❤🇺🇦
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Great video, Jane! Thanks so much! Your cooking looks better than mine. You didn't catch anything on fire. I tend to burn things when I cook.😂 No need to apologize, I know how crazy work can be, especially at this time of year. Glad you are feeling better. Hope your work schedule will ease up soon. Glad to see LvivGirl. Hope she's doing well here in North Carolina. Thanks for the new words at the end. I like to learn Ukrainian whenever I can.
Thank you for your comment, yes, everything was done under my close supervision, so nothing burned )))
Really interesting video Jane. I love seeing the various recipes that you’re cooking and the pronunciations.
thank you very much
Nice to see lovely Lviv Girl :)
¿банош?🤔 … isn't it comparable to Moldovan/Romanian "mămăligă"? … mămăligă cu brînză 😋 … sooo delicious , так смачно !
Thank you for your comment, of course, these are geographically close regions, so cultures are intertwined
That is essentially "Grits". Which I make often. When I am at my condo in SC I buy the corn meal (ground corn) from old mills that use stone wheels and heritage corn. The difference is texture and of course flavor. For breakfast the grits are sweet. Savory shrimp and grits might include butter, cracklins/bacon, cheese. I typically put a dollop of Greek yogurt for serving. A bit healthier than sour cream.
The last time I made borscht I sliced the vegetables and smoke them. Thus making a smoked version which was quite good and interesting.
Thank you for your comment
Hi Jane and thanks for another good video. I know that when we think of Ukrainian food, people always think of borscht, but seriously, I would love to see a video of how to make your favorite delicious borscht recipe, maybe using ham or bacon as the meat.
I would love to make borscht in our soup kitchen at my church in California where I am trying to raise better awareness about Ukraine. - Love and Good Food, -Matt💙💛
Thank you very much for the comment, this will lead to a separate video
@@EugeniaFromUkraine Good! Thank you Jane. You can keep the recipe simple.
We are feeding the borscht to about 50 people, so simple is best.
Slava Ukraine. - Matt from California
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5:25 - This part was really funny. Great job Eugenia!
Now I understand much better why all normal people were happy when the USSR collapsed.
Thank you for presenting us some Ukrainian food and Ukrainian words.
Thank you for your comment, there was so much bad in the USSR for ordinary people. For example, people could stand in line for several hours for products whose quality was rather dubious, and others were not available, and there might not be enough for everyone.
Thank you for the info, Eugenia. Luckily for me, I didn't live in the USSR, but I've heard similar stories. It's so sad to hear how an average person in the USSR lived in horrible conditions. And all in the name of some crazy ideology.
I'm looking forward to your new videos 🙂
Thanks, Jane! That was informative, educational, and entertaining - the things that the BBC was set up to be!
Great looking recipes! I'm feeling hungry now! I look forward to more food themed videos, when you have the time. In the meantime, I enjoy your short videos.
Slava Ukraini!
Thank you for your comment
@@EugeniaFromUkraineA lot of Irish people don’t eat the traditional foods. My maternal grandfather loved Crubeens or pig trotters.
In Ireland steel rolled porridge oats are a more traditional breakfast with pork sausages, rashers, black and white puddings being more a treat.
I'm enjoying the food, always love your videos Jane. Glad you're starting to feel better and are able to share more with us again :)
Thank you very much for your support and your comment, I will try to do it more regularly
Yes, I cook borshtch from time to time. I'm using the recipe from Nika Minchenko of the UA-cam Channel Verba School. She's from Luhansk. So, it's an Eastern Ukrainian recipe. Very good! A success with my son and wife!
Thank you for your comment, we have a saying "Each housewife has her own recipe for borscht", and it's true, even if you look at our family, my mother, grandmother and mother-in-law have different tastes of borscht.
I have to mention that my neighbour country Norway has strange food habits. It seems the most popular dish is… frozen pizza. Maybe you make pierogi as well which is lovely and and also comes in many varitions.
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Hi Jane, you are a Ukranian treasure 💙💛 So glad to see you are feeling much better.
I love these 🇺🇦 food videos. It seems that you guys eat quite healthy. Lots of veggies and the combinations with sour cream, which, if made correctly, contains probiotics which is great for the gut!
Please share more recipes with us 🫶🏻. Take care. Greetings from the southern hemisphere 🇿🇦
Thank you for your comment, we try to eat healthy, but.
Watching this video made me hungry. I love to eat but I was never a good cook so I always left that to the experts. I'll happily volunteer to wash dishes and clean the kitchen afterwards though.
I'm wondering when this video with That Lviv Girl was recorded. The last couple of her videos that I watched were recorded in the USA. I follow many Ukraine focused channels and feel that in some small way I've gotten to know you.
Jane, I want you to know that you, your family, friends and your country are in my thoughts and prayers every day.
Love respect and support from Texas, USA.
Slava Ukraini !!!
Thank you for your comment and kind words of support, so this video was made a while ago, and it just now fits the topic
The porridge dish you made is similar to grits, a popular dish in the American south. I liked the buckwheat dish because it seemed easier to make.
Thank you very much for your comment
I like the language tips and this was a good episode
Thank you very much for your comment and your feedback on the content
CRACKLINS! YES! A Cajun delight also! That convinces me roots are Ukrainian too.
Loved it!
This was a great video, and I'm already looking forward to the next one 😊
I love learning about food in other countries, so all the recipes were interesting. Banosh looks like polenta - very tasty, and I also like buckwheat - it has a nice nutty flavour.
Did Ilya like the snails? 😂
Take care, and hope you feel 100% better soon ❤
Слава Україні 💙🇺🇦💛
Thank you for your comment, Ilya likes to discover new tastes for himself, the snails were delicious
@@EugeniaFromUkraine 😊 I live in France and snails, or escargots, are common here. I like the taste of them (though really they just taste of whatever sauce they're served in - usually lots of garlic butter) But I don't like the idea of them 🤮🤷
Glad to hear Ilya enjoyed them 😄
In South Africa our staple food is also a porridge made from corn/maize (called mielies in South Africa) and we call our porridge "pap" (pronounced as "pup"). The method of cooking is very simple and we basically just use water and maize meal. It's a very versatile dish and you can get very creative with such a basic food if you have the means. I didn't see you mention supper, don't Ukrainians have supper?
hello, of course we are have supper
@@EugeniaFromUkraine what do
Ukrainians have for supper?
I made a borsch and it was not at all like I thought it would taste (pleasantly surprised), but you are right about the unjust stigma associated with it. I couldn't even get people to try it. They don't know what they're missing. More for me next time too. It keeps well frozen for a couple of weeks.
Дякую тобі дуже за коментар, борщ дуже смачний
@@EugeniaFromUkraine I signed up for the Balakun program. I don't speak Ukrainian yet, but I'm going to start with what you replied! So far I've got "Thanks ???? sincerely (or something close)...." I'll work on the rest.
Did they not want to try it because of beetroot? If so, there's also green borshch and white borshch, you can find many recipes online if interested :) It was a nice discovery, because I knew only of the red one.
@@chriswilliams1740 I'm slowly learning Ukrainian by using several sources. When I see something written in Cyrillic script on the internet I use Google translate. I've asked a few Ukrainians if it is accurate and I've been told that it is pretty close. Of course literal translations sometimes don't relate the local usage of certain phrases, but I can understand the intent and ideas being communicated most of the time.
In this particular case Google Translate says that "Дякую тобі дуже за коментар, борщ дуже смачний." translates to "Thank you very much for your comment, the borscht is very tasty."
@@zuzannatruba I think it was more that they didn't trust my cooking due to previous culinary disasters.
It is great that you are feeling strong enough to make time for some vloging. ! enjoyed the recipes. I've got to watch the calories though, so maybe a perspective for people on diets or members of UK Weight Watchers might be fun. I can't remember the last time I was allowed butter! I really enjoyed the segment on Ukrainian phrases at the end, good idea to teach us all what to ask for when we get a chance to visit Ukraine. Слава Україні! Slava Ukraini! Glory to Ukraine!
Thank you very much for the comment and feedback about the content
You're a very funny girl, keep up the good work! Love the gold nails!
Hello Jane, you don´t have to excuse for not uploading videos when you are ill ! I have experienced some serious health issues myself in 2022 and 2023 mostly caused by the long Lockdowns (over 2 years in Austria) and psychologically because I was in fear of the ruzzian army. Regarding food, I never learnt how to cook (only chemistry synthesis), so thank you for the recepies you showed to us. I used to eat mostly processed junk food, odds are that this is the reason why my gall bladder had to be removed in 2017. I want to live healthier, not just consuming Turkish and Chinese Fast Food - it´s a necessity, otherwise I will die. Doctors told it to me in a very drastic way. No Jane, we have never even tried to make borscht. My grandmother was a very curious person, very open-minded, who once even made a Scottish Cake. However, she hated russians due to the crimes they committed in the Soviet occupied areas of Germany and Austria (rape, torture, enslaving people and sending them to Siberia). To her, everybody east of Slovakia was a russian, an enemy. Our media portrayed Ukraine in a very bad way, nowadays, our press is full of trumped-up stories, voyeurism and sensationalism, a terrible mixture. Since I stopped consuming Austrian media, I have a more realistic view of the world. If I were a cook, I would have already tried borscht and now I will do it for sure. At the moment, there is food security in many very populated countries due to ruzzians bombing grain facilities in Ukraine. Personally, I prefer to eat insects before I try snails. At school, we used to make bad jokes about the French who have a long tradition in preparing and eating snails. I hope that you are doing better, Jane. Kind regards to you and Illya! Mathew (Austria)🤗
Wow! Hey I have a friend from Austria, his name is Yakub:) Wanted to visit Mountains in Austria - its terrific, more beautiful that we are having here:) maybe after victory
I love it! Banush is basically Ukrainian cheese grits, a beloved Southern favorite in the USA. As for borsch, yes- I made my first one ever last winter, using Inna's (Speak Ukrainian) recipe, but I had to modify because my partner is a very picky eater. I used leeks instead of onions, beef neck instead of pork, and arugula instead of cabbage. I guess it's a halal borsch? 😆 (No, I'm not muslim, though I have muslim ancestors.) I'd love to see you try a Mexican or Tex Mex breakfast like huevos rancheros with refried beans, nopales, and (corn) tortillas.
I'm so glad you're feeling better, too. Stay strong!
Thank you for your comment, The joke about halal borscht went in (ahahah). We have many variations of borscht. My husband wants to try Mexican food. "huevos" in the Ukrainian transcription sounds quite funny in relation to the dish.
I loved those please tell us more about Ukraine food. Also loved your Yorkshire tablecloth Iam from West Yorkshire Oblast
Thank you for your comment, the tablecloth was brought by our friend from Britain when he visited us
@@EugeniaFromUkraine Hi thank you for your reply it's so nice of you to take the time. I love your videos and all my best wishes are with you and Ukraine. Take care and everyone in the UK supports you and wants your victory. I would love to visit and see your beautiful country.
Looks good! I’m happy you don’t eat junk food.
Thank you for your comment, I try not to do that, but...
@@EugeniaFromUkraine with war you can’t be picky. It is sickening.
🙋♀️Hello, neighbour!
It seems like mămăligă
I know we have some Ukranian minorities called ,,huţúli", probably in the area of the Carpathians mountins? Not sure, probably they migrated in South-East Romania, so in Dobrogea reagion, where we have East Slavic minorities
Brânză (all sorts of cheese, similar to feta cheese), caş (another type of cheese), hríşcă (buckwheat) -in Ro language
Thank you for your comment, yes Hutsuls are a Carpathian ethnographic group. And we also know Mamalyga.
Cool video. Can you bake your favorite cake or cookies? 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦
I will try:)
I want to try spicy potatoes from Pripyat
The last such potatoes went back to Russia from the Pripyat forests in the spring of 2022
Banosh (spelling?) looks a lot like The Southern US dish Cheese Grits.
yes banosh
I just love videos where food is being prepared! I would love to try out the Ukrainian cuisine. I also find ”Luba From Ukraine”, she makes large amounts of food. As for breakfast, Americans are very lazy these days. Your breakfast is kond of old school American breakfast. Now they want convenience above all. It’s no longer convenient enough to eat with your hands, Americans want to eat breakfast with *one hand only*. They even eat biscuits for breakfast. Can you imagine? Yours is much better.
Oh crap, you have to make each word bold. *One* *hand* *only*. I love America but their food culture is just horrible, the so called Standard American Diet. No wonder so many have type 2 diabetes.
Thank you so much for your kind words
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I just purchased "putin" toilet paper 😂 I am 'covered' 👍
New sub ..love your channel 💙💛
Dear Lisa, welcome to the family, we also have Putin toilet paper at home but not using it, we should do it from tomorrow:))
Also, I appreciate the sentiment, but no need to apologize. You're a busy woman with a family in a country at war. If people complain about your content flow, they are the problem, not you.
💙💛 ohhhh... I think i just gained 5 pounds!!! 🇺🇦 Thanks? 😉
(🍒 Vareneki - my new fave!)
I have gained to much:( need to do exercises
Today I learned the word for buckwheat is not kasha.
No it is hrechka:)
МЕНІ ПОДОБАЄТСЯ. ЩО ТИ ВЧИШЬ МОВУ З ПІДПИСНИКАМИ
Дякую тобі
I don’t think buckwheat is available in USA
It’s available in vegan section I think
Toilet paper was in shortage in the United States in 2020. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Perhaps you mean the situation at the beginning of the quarantine, and people literally bought everything, maybe there was a short-term shortage, and after a few days everything fell into place, but here everything was the opposite, the paper appeared in the store in a minimal batch, it was sold out in an hour and the next time he was brought in two weeks later
Cheese with every thing..this is normal in Ukraine?
You have to cook for every meal??.....
breakfast is coffee and maybe some fruit
Lunch, is what you had for breakfast.
Dinner is a salad.
No soup, no porridge, and no cheese or sour cream!!!
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so its just russian food? ok
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