5 Sought-after West Ukrainian desserts
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- 03 Oct 2022
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Nowadays muffins, cupcakes, tiramisu, and doughnuts fill all shop windows and restaurant menus. Undoubtedly, these world desserts are delicious, but let’s refresh our memory about amazing sweet authentic dishes from Western Ukraine.
It has been known about language borrowings and similarities in clothing ornaments of Ukrainians from Western Ukraine with their European neighbors for long time. This assimilation didn’t go round the culinary field. Hungarians, Polacks, Slovaks, and even Germans gifted Western Ukraine a plethora of tasty recipes which are still popular and well-liked.
Hombovtsi
Hombovtsi are the Carpathian dish which was adopted from Hungarians. Traditionally, the main ingredient for this dish was potato. Yet, today, there are many options for cooking hombovtsi using sour milk cheese or wheat flour. Hombovtsi are the relatives of knedlyky and dumplings, while the cheese variation of this awesome dish resembles “lazy varenyky.”
Pliatsok
Pliatsok is one more Western Ukraine delicacy. This tasty bakery is something betwixt and between a cake and pastry. Mostly, pliatsky are a sweet dish which is served on a big plate and cut in little square pieces. The name for this dish was borrowed from the Polish language, while recipes themselves were diversified and improved by Halician Ukrainians. If hombovtsi are, so to speak the dish of the holiday day, pliatsok is the king of Western Ukraine holiday feasts. Housewives have competed in smartness, creating refined cakes with different fillings – creams, fruits, marmalade, etc. Today there is a variety of diverse recipes for pliastok. Read More...
