Culture Palate: Dishes from Ukraine

Jordana Weiss | February 20, 2019

Kovbasa

Delicious sausages are a key ingredient of many Ukrainian dishes. The most popular type is kovbasa, which is smoked sausage made with pork meat and fat, flavored with garlic, salt, and pepper. It used to be more common to see kovbasa made at home, but now most Ukrainians purchase them from a butcher or a local grocery store. Many people call all Ukrainian sausages kovbasa regardless of whether they include pork, but pork is by far the most common type of kovbasa available.

It’s often eaten plain (it doesn’t need to be cooked since it’s already smoked) but can also be fried and eaten alongside varenyky or in yayechnia z kovbosoyu i yarnoyu, which is kovbasa and scrambled eggs with red peppers.

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