Ukrainian and international home cooking recipes
Few things satisfy like a well-cooked meat dish — rich, hearty and full of flavour.
In this section you will find meat recipes of every kind: pork, beef and veal, roasted, fried, braised and stuffed, plus meatballs, rolls and bakes. We share how to choose, season and cook meat so it stays tender and juicy every time.
Armenian summer dolma looks nothing like the grape-leaf parcels most people picture. Here the vegetables are the wrapper: eggplant, bell peppers, and tomatoes are hollowed out and packed with a juicy meat filling. The recipe comes from Zhanna Levina, and it captures the family side of Caucasian cooking, where one big pot goes to the […]
In summer, when peppers and eggplant ripen, Armenians make not grape-leaf rolls but a vegetable dolma: sweet peppers, eggplant, and tomatoes stuffed with fatty beef and lamb, rice, cilantro, and cumin, then left to braise under a tomato-garlic sauce for an hour and a half. The name comes from the Turkic doldurma, meaning “to stuff.” […]
Beef tenderloin with vegetables is a modern Azerbaijani recipe from chef Afgan Khankishiyev, who proves that the cuisine of Baku is about more than just lula kebab and shashlik. The tender beef is seared separately to a browned crust, while the side of eggplant, pepper, and Baku tomatoes soaks up the meat juices right in […]
There’s something deeply comforting about a skillet of beef stroganoff bubbling away on the stove, the smell of golden onions mingling with rich, tangy sour cream. This is the kind of weeknight dinner that feels special without asking much of you. Tender strips of beef are seared fast over high heat, then folded into a […]
Cherry-stuffed beef roulade is a festive dish made to “grandma’s recipe,” where a pounded sheet of beef tenderloin is rolled around juicy cherries. As it roasts, the berries inside release a sweet-tart juice that runs through the roulade, and a warm cranberry sauce underscores that fruity character. Stuffing meat with fruit and berries is an […]
A pungent flavor of the chicken roll with prunes One can cook plenty of dishes made of the chicken breast. For example, chicken – fried steaks, schnitzel, and sauces. You can bake the chicken breast in an oven, or roast it or stew it. But the chicken roll with prunes in the oven has proved […]
A quick chili con carne dreamed up as a way to give yesterday’s barbecue a second life: beef already cooked over coals is cut into cubes and added to a spicy tomato sauce with corn and two kinds of beans. The smoky aroma of the grilled meat makes this chili more interesting than a version […]
Before you fry anything, salt the cut eggplant and press it under a weight for about twenty minutes. Don’t skip this: the salt pulls out the bitter juices so the flesh won’t taste harsh in the finished dish. The whole medley hinges on it. What you end up with is a hearty skillet where eggplant, […]
Fish loaf cooked with love Nowadays, there are a lot of variants how to cook the different dishes with bread. For example, one of them includes the fish loaf. If you are in hurry and have no time for cooking, the fish loaf is the best choice for a quick snack. It seems to be very […]
The key to good mushroom skewers is the pre-boil. Those 15 minutes in simmering water do three jobs at once: they make the mushrooms safe to eat, draw out excess moisture and any bitterness, and shorten the time over the fire so the caps don’t dry out on the coals. The thin slices of salo […]