Tradition and popular dishes of Ukraine

Tradition and popular dishes of Ukraine

Ukrainian folk clothing is very beautiful. Women - it's a beautiful white shirt embroidered with various ornaments of red and black threads, which wore a vest top, also with embroidery. At the head of the women and girls always wear wreath with colored ribbons and flowers. Traditional clothes

Men - a red, blue, or green trousers that fasten the top wide belt. At the top of them as white shirt with embroidered ornaments. And beautiful, high red boots. Traditional clothes

Ukrainian towels. The important role in the life of the Ukrainian people played towels which are distributed in different family ceremonies and rites: during courtship, marriage, burial, laying houses and vhodyny, meeting guests of honor, the birth of a child.

Towels decorated windows It looked very nice. Towels are white, and they are embroidered scarlet clusters of viburnum, and simple patterns.

Borsch. Borscht is a soup, of Ukrainian origin, that is popular in many Eastern and Central European countries. In most of these countries, it is made with beetroot as the main ingredient, giving it a deep reddish-purple color. Ukrainians usually eat borscht with salo, brown beard or pampushki and with garlic or onion. This dish is the most favourite among others.

Sandwiches with salo. Luxury in our cuisine is sandwiches with strategic product. It is the hit in all seasons, Aesthetically, delicious, nutritious – you can eat salo with or without bread.

Roast. Tasty dish of meat and potatoes, without which are not done any evenings. Who at least once tasted roast from the oven – will never forget that it easily melts in your mouth. Preparations are usually with meat, the people's love healed itself. At your request we will prepare roast with mushrooms.

Krovyanka. Krovyanka has been being on the Ukrainian table since ancient times. Kaszanka (Poland), Boudin noir (France), black pudding (Scotland) and the great number of other titles show a passion and not just European nations to blood sausages. As to the method of preparation frankly: there is a saying - "who love sausage and politics should not see how they are made.“ But is it a very appetizing appearance with onions and bacon. By the way, black pudding - one of the few foods that has withstood the pressure of religious prohibition of age and won in a very unequal struggle. Historically, the prohibition of consumption levels in Ukraine and ignored traditional national nutritious and healthy food - pudding extant.

Christmas night. Christmas night (Christmas carol, Holy Night) called a rich kutia. It carefully prepared: the stove was kindled 12 logs that dried for 12 days, baked and boiled 12 ritual foods, chief among them - Christmas kutya (a dish made of wheat, honey, poppy seeds and nuts) and stewed fruit (dried fruit compote). In the evening the house made Didukh - reaped sheaf. It was believed that he, like all other things Maid acquires miraculous power to bring good luck and a successful job. In the evening children were sent tofamily and loved ones with gifts and kutia to commemorate the souls of the dead.

Easter. The main spring holiday in the nation has always been considered Easter - a holiday, which later established the Christian church as Christ's Resurrection. Quite organically combined pagan rituals and religious ceremonies. Easter - is a ritual cycle, which includes the following main components: Holy Week, which in turn divided into Palm Sunday and Holy Thursday, Easter (Easter) and Light (Easter) week, including Radunytsia (veneration of ancestors) and light (drawing) Monday. On Palm Sunday consecrated in church willow twigs that then whipped household and livestock. At Easter, consecrated cakes prepared in advance (festive bread) and pysanky (Easter eggs).

Summer ritual. Varied a summer ritual cycle that lasted from RUSAL (end of May) until Holovosiky (early September). It includes the following holidays: rusaliyi, Green Holidays (Trinity) Kupaylo (Midsummer), Peter Day (Saints Peter and Paul), Maccabeus, Elijah day Panteleimon the Healer, Savior, and now forgotten holiday - Gods Lada Yarily, Thunder holidays and so on.

House Ukrainian family. Ukrainian house- a quiet and picturesque, often henbane outside and inside the building, preferably under a thatched roof. Everywhere it has an elongated shape. This is because all the rooms in it are usually in this order: house - porch, the house - porch - barn, house - porch - house. Housing space is always in terms close to the square. View Ukrainian house, on the one hand, emphasized the aesthetic tastes of the farmer, his character, personality, the other - the uniqueness and originality of the place on earth where this house is located. In the tradition of the house there is a manifestation of inspiration people, their experience, knowledge and artistic taste.

In every Ukrainian home was oven. Some slept on it, something kept some. It could paint could not paint. Also it was prepared to eat, then she replaced our existing oven.

Ukrainian home inside. Inside it was very modest, but comfortable. It was a big wooden bed, on whom I had a rope to hang clothes, a small table and two benches. In the top corner of the icon must have been covered with embroidered towels.