Main Course
- Varenyky (Perogy): Dumplings stuffed with fillings such as potato and cheese, often served boiled.
- Perohy: small pastries made with fillings, such as mashed potatoes and fried onions, ground meat and fried onions, liver and fried onions, fried cabbage with fried onions, cherries, and strawberries. Served with sour cream and butter or sugar, when filled with fruits.
- Pyrizhky: Small potato filled buns baked in thickened rich cream and dill.
- Cabbage rolls (holubtsi/holubchi): cabbage leaves (fresh or sour) rolled with rice filling and may contain meat (minced beef or bacon), baked in oil and carmelized onions and may contain as a baking sauce tomato soup, cream or sour cream, bacon drippings or roasted with bacon strips on top.
- Syrnyk: cottage cheese fritters, sometimes with raisins, served with sour cream and jam.
- Mlyntsi: crêpes (blyntsi or nalisnyky), filled usually with cottage cheese, meat, cabbage, fruits, served with sour cream.
- Stuffed duck or goose with apples.
- Roast meat (pechenya): pork, veal, beef or lamb roast.
- Fish (ryba): fried in egg and flour; cooked in oven with mushrooms, cheese, and lemon; marinaded, dried or smoked variety.
- Studenetz: aspic made with fish (zalyvne) or meat (kholodets).
- Kasha hrechana zi shkvarkamy: buckwheat cereal with pork rinds and/or onion.
- Potato (kartoplia, also barabolia or bulba): young or peeled, served with butter, sour cream, dill; a more exclusive variety includes raw egg.
- Guliash: refers to stew in general, or specifically Hungarian goulash.
- Sausage (kovbasa): various kinds of smoked or boiled pork, beef or chicken sausage. Sosysky: (hot dogs without buns) typically eaten for breakfast.
- Salo: cured fatback.
- Kotlety/Sichenyky (cutlets): minced meat or fish mixed with eggs, onions, garlic, breadcrumbs, and milk, fried in oil and sometimes rolled in breadcrumbs.
- Deruny: potato pancakes, usually served with rich servings of sour cream.
- Kruchenyky or Zavyvantsi: pork or beef rolls with various stuffing: mushrooms, onions, eggs, cheese, sauerkraut, carrots, etc.
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