UKRAINIAN BORSCHT RECIPE – UKRAINE FOOD WITH @AnnafromUkraine Discover Ukraine

UKRAINIAN BORSCHT RECIPE – UKRAINE FOOD WITH @AnnafromUkraine Discover Ukraine

hello guys when I started my Vlog at the very beginning of the brutal Russian invasion I did not expect it will take me so long to update you on Brutal Russian crimes and heroic Ukrainian resilience but at the same time I did not expect I will have 100,000 friends on the channel I am very grateful and honored to have you in my life and to mark this event because actually we cannot celebrate the Vlog that is dedicated to War I hope sometime soon we will celebrate the Vlog that is dedicated to Ukraine its cuisine its trips and its people but today we will celebrate in a family format because I do consider you all of my friends and family and we will cook borch together yes just me and Sasha behind the camera one very important notice you never cook borch with or for someone who is not important it is is a ritual it is an old Ukrainian tradition that I am happy to share with you 100,000 friends I know many of you come to this channel for some political updates and then I have to tell you borch is also a political thing because on one beautiful day in March 1953 when Stalin died in American restaurant Ukrainian Restaurant in America people were serving free Bor to celebrate the death of the Tyran and I hope sometime soon many Ukrainian restaurants all over the world will serve Bor to Mark the end of Putin since childhood I loved watching culinary shows and I was always irritated with those cute chicks wearing white shirts lots of jewels and cooking something I thought it’s total BS and now I’m repeating this mistake no Sasha can you give me an apron please Let’s Do It um an ornament traditional for Ukrainian Cassian region bch is one of the favorite Ukrainian dishes it is both a soup and the main course because it has lots and lots of ingredients in it it is also a family tradition and I know many of you tell me in every region there is a separate recipe of borch demonstrating how well you know Ukrainian culture and I will tell you no actually in every Ukrainian family you have your own recipe of borch and my family is not an exclusion so today I will introduce you to my mother’s version of borch but I will be talking more than cooking that’s my mistake and problem in 2022 Ukrainian board has become a part of UNESCO Heritage because of many efforts of many Ukrainian people and especially of of our Chef kotenko who did a lot to explain to the commission of UNESCO that borch is Ukrainian but of course in many countries in southern Europe and in Eastern Europe people cook similar dishes with a little bit different ingredients and I know that in the United States there is something similar to the Bor belt which actually unites immigrants from Eastern European countries who settled in the US and continue cooking borch there let me know my dear subscribers are there any people who continue cooking borch for centuries even being far away from your old country in Europe as any traditional and really old dish borch has lots of interpretations but now we will look at its basic ingredients with a beetroot in the center in general I have to say that beetroot perhaps is one of the core ingredients of all Ukraine Ian Cuisine and you will meet it in various stews salads and of course in different kinds of borch I come from volain and volain is a potato region potato is everywhere and actually it’s my favorite kind of food maybe not very girly or Exquisite but that’s the reality uh potato is also one of the core ingredients of borch but some people prefer not to put it in the soup itself if you can call B soup it’s so much more but um boil it separately and then it instead of bread or just as an additional supplement carrot and cabbage but you will not see cabbage in my choice of ingredients because my mom never put it in Bor you know I’m not thinking about borch when I’m looking at this knife I’m more thinking about pin but YouTube is too sensitive so let’s concentrate on more positive things so what do we do with a bitro well first of all we have to peel it and then we can either chop it or we can grate it or we can do both depending on what texture of Bor you want to achieve in my case I will chop it I don’t like it to be something like a porridge let me know do you eat beetroot in your countries and how do you cook it I’m actually fun to cook with you’ll see right now uh it’s very beautiful the color of the beetro and many centuries ago Ukrainian women would use it to um decorate themselves instead of the blush let’s do it like oh my God what can you do for the sake of YouTube most successful YouTubers from what I know are those who actually do food videos and makeup videos so I’m the one now borch is known on Ukrainian territories since the med eval ages and actually many foreigners who travel here describe how much they liked Ukrainian borch so how would an ordinary cooking of a borch would begin a couple of centuries ago well perhaps from going into the fields collecting all the ingredients that you need and then starting to cook them borch can be both prepared with and without meat depending on the period of the year because ukrainians typically keep to the land mine is going to be with meat but I won’t show that on the camera because somehow it does not look very cute when you boil a piece of meat carrot is good for your eyes they said didn’t help I’m wearing contact lens so you start by preparing the broth if you want to make it with meat any kind literally any kind of meat can work like pork like chicken like even Goose sometimes and of course a little bit of Salo which is similar to bacon to some extent but very different from the Ukrainian perspective or you can choose and make it without meat adding some specific ingredients that help make bourch more sustainable of course we need beetroots carrots and potatoes and a lot of onion I don’t know what about your culture but in Ukrainian culture we eat a lot of onion and garlic when I’ve told you that literally in every Ukrainian family there is a separate recipe of Bor was not exaggerating it is a common reason for quarrels between mothers and daughters in-law between husbands and their fathers and other stuff because everyone likes something special and thinks that only his or her version of borch is ideal and of course they do differ from region to region because every Ukrainian region that is an agricultural region because you know Ukraine is the Bread Basket of Europe they have some particular things for example in my region we have a lot of mushrooms in the forest so we put mushrooms in borch in the central part of Ukraine more Tomatoes more pepper and even cherries yes sometimes they put cherries into borch would you like to see some secret ingredients in my family we will put a potato in small pieces and also a peeled but whole potato just because you can eat it later as a second course sometimes you take all the ingredients out of bch after youve finished this soup part and eat it as a second course I think it’s very sufficient and ecological our ancestors had really good traditions and I like it since childhood it was one of my favorite dishes don’t tell me it’s it’s bad I will leave you a recipe of my kind of borche in the comments below this video and remember to subscribe and also join my Instagram where I share more of the stories from my everyday life secret Bor ingredients you can put all of them you can choose one of the ingredients to make your Bor special to give it a so if it’s possible to say so first of all mushrooms typical for my region and yet they are really good in a kind of bch that you cook before Christmas or on a Christmas Eve when you don’t put um meat when you keep the land and this is the volan style of drying mushrooms they simply spend summer or sunny Autumn days outside drying and giving this fantastic Aroma porini and it looks really nice and cute but in the carpan mountain they have a different type of dried mushrooms you can buy there everywhere literally so I hope the day when it is safe to travel to Ukraine is soon and you come and you smell this really beautiful white mushrooms we call them from the Carpathian Mountains um and they are dried in ovens they this old style ovens and they are very crispy you can literally um sprinkle your spaghetti with it making really good sauce without any effort so you can choose and add mushrooms to bour or if you come from Central Ukraine as my great grandma CH region actually the capital of Ukrainian headman’s bin you will add some dried cherries they are sour and they make Bor taste more prominent a very typical ingredient too I want to show you these beans that are often added to borch and I think this is Art honestly I want to spill them on this um how do you call this plate with petrika decoration just look at them look at how beautiful the structure texture and color is and on Ukrainian markets you can find actually like dozens of different colors and dozens of different tastes the we add them to our bch I think yes and some of my favorite ingredients too quite exotic and I think that’s what you have to learn from the Ukrainian borch video These are pieces of pears but these are no ordinary dried pears but smoked ones Ukrainian popularizer of borch kotenko Chef kotenko always adds them but my great grandmother did that too or if you don’t like uh pears they don’t give actually very strong taste you can add some prunes but they also have to be smoked because they add this lightly smoked Aroma to borch making it very Exquisite so so before putting most of the ingredients into the broth that we have already prepared we have to precook them on a frying pan that’s making them softer and revealing their inner tastes sunflower oil is the most popular oil in Ukraine you can also put some Salo and get the oil out of it do you get oil out of Salo something different uh but anyway sunflower oil is top in Ukraine and sunflower is our symbol because there are many of them especially in those War torn regions and I’m so proud that many of Ukrainian volunteers Brin dried Bor ingredients even to the trenches where people can cook them using just boiling water feeling that Taste of Home remembering what they are standing for and knowing that we love and care about them I love this sound of cooking in the house you know all ukrainians know that the best borch is the one that was cooked yesterday because it takes time to absorb all the aroma that’s why the original borch that we are going to show you sometime soon I cooked yesterday um but after you’ve cooked the broth you add the precooked ingredients like beetroots carrots onions potatoes some people like and add cabbage and all the secret ingredients that you choose into the broth and let it boil slowly sometimes we can cook Bor for hours May making it a really slow and tasty dish I will leave the recipe of my borch below this video but more ukrainians in Ukraine actually eat borch than cook borch so let me introduce you to the ritual of how you eat borch as a Ukrainian and here comes one of the top products of Ukrainian cuisine in general sometimes you can even be tested whether you’re Ukrainian or not on the basis of smatana which is sour cream we eat it literally with everything and of course it’s a must when eating red Bor Salo it can look differently it can be covered with different kinds of Pepper or it can go raw but it must be cold almost freezing cold and garlic I know I know but it protects you from various viruses and evil spirits oh my God I have almost forgotten about one of the main Specialties to go with B pushki sashaasha Sasha give us some puskas you treat bread with respect in Ukraine and I think all over the world so this is how they look I did not bake these ones myself you can guess they smell very good because they add garlic and a d like there are not many vegetarians in Ukraine and the say says you will not spoil B with meat now you will see how I spoil my shirt it’s good I’m not going to put this spoon inside uh I’m doctor’s daughter that is STP I wasn’t joking when I’ve told you that yesterday’s borch is much better than a fresh one uh and we eat borch for various occasions this may be for an ordinary day when you don’t have many food in the house and you try to make something good out of nothing but it can also be for a holiday for an sad or a happy event borch is literally everywhere and every time with a Ukrainian ukrainians are very brave you see it’s hot like from hell but we are strong enough no vampires in Ukraine Rin we all eat garlic I know it’s not sexy but it’s reality uh Sasha has just complimented me saying that my nail polish is the color of borch I don’t know if it’s the kind of compliment I was waiting for but and the secret and Central ingredient of all Ukrainian Cuisine sour cream okay Ana out it’s my uh my mission my time I will uh taste taste taste on Works B yes I uh I hope I I believe this borch is very tasty because borch is my favorite dishes when I travel in when I go to Cafe I uh always order order bch and D D yes yes and um [Music] well m m it’s very tasty no CH unexpect nor mhm yes very tasty are you doing it on a camera or really really no really uh I it’s uh serious I have the best job in all world do you want um more video with food on this channel I want because it’s very tasty and Sal and pushka it’s very tasty duet tast you do it yes okay Anna goodbye thank you guys for 100,000 subscribers and 100,000 friends we love you follow more and I hope sometime soon we will celebrate Victory on this channel subscribe share and

00:00 – History of the Ukrainian Borscht
03:23 – What is a Borscht Belt?
04:00 – Main borscht ingredients
15:00 – How to eat borscht as a Ukrainian?
Broth:
3 liters of water, 600g pork ribs or beef attached to a bone, 1 onion, 1 carrot
2 bay leaves and some peppercorns, 1 tsp salt
Borscht
2 medium beets peeled and cut or grated
3 medium potatoes peeled and cut into chunks
2 medium carrots cut or grated
1 medium onion chopped
2 cloves garlic minced
1 bay leaf
3 tbsp tomato paste
salt and pepper to taste
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