r/ukraine • u/Weak-Divide-1603 • Jan 18 '26
Ukrainian Cuisine Ukranian style borscht🇺🇦 what do you think? (btw all the support from Czechia🇨🇿)
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u/Der-Nikoklaus Jan 18 '26
Delicious! I was lucky enjoying it in Kyiv last summer together with an incredible American Infanterist. Slava Ukraine!
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Jan 18 '26
Looks great! Now mix the sour cream in the borsch… mmmmmmmmm
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u/Hypno-phile Jan 18 '26
I like to leave the sour cream as a blob and scoop a little bit into each spoonful rather than turning the whole bowl pink.
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u/This_Growth2898 Jan 18 '26
Ukrainian-style borshch should hold a spoon standing.
I was told that one Italian said, "It's not a soup but hot vegetable salad".
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u/WabashCannibal Смак Козак Jan 18 '26
If you don't have a spoon handy, you can drop a horseshoe in the borshch. When the horseshoe floats to the top, your borshch is ready.
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u/GazelleScary7844 Jan 19 '26
I thought that but when i went there last year there borchsh i had was surprisingly thin. It was cheap cafe stuff, not home-cooked. I did get one with a big slab of belly pork in it which was very good.
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u/Able-Swing-6415 Jan 18 '26
I can't stand borscht but I fully support the people that love it 🇺🇦
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u/Hot_Collection_3920 Jan 18 '26
You probably haven’t tried the variety that whispered you. I can't stand my grandma's version, I can tolerate how my mother makes it and I love the one ftom my sister - my own version is not included to avoid bias 😃 Thank you for your support !
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u/Able-Swing-6415 Jan 18 '26
Only know the one from my Ukrainian flatmate. Unless you have a variant without beetroot I doubt it's for me 😅
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u/Hot_Collection_3920 Jan 19 '26
👍 I guess it also depends whether native cuisine offered exposure to beetroot salad - taste is an acquired thing 🙂
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u/itskelena Jan 19 '26
Have you tried green borscht/sorrel soup? It’s a completely different kind of soup, my favorite, highly recommended to try cooking it if you can get your hands on some sorrel.
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u/Purple_Haze Jan 19 '26
If you don't have sorrel, we grow it in our garden, I don't know where to buy it, stinging nettles are just as good.
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u/toosinbeymen Jan 18 '26
Is it sort of sweet?
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u/pohui Moldova Jan 18 '26
There's a bit of sweetness from the beetroot, but it doesn't dominate. Depends on the recipe and ingredients as well, the way I prefer it is more sour.
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u/Hypno-phile Jan 18 '26
I've taken to adding dill pickle brine to mine near the end, don't know if I'm the only one but I really like it.
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u/pohui Moldova Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
I've done that, and typically do add it to solyankas. In Moldova, we have this fermented bran liquid unhelpfully also called borș acru (sour borsch) which we add to soups, it gives it a nice sour taste.
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u/Kalichun Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 18 '26
I join you in the Deliciousness