https://easternhomekitchen.com/ Tested Ukrainian and Eastern European recipes alongside everyday chicken, soups, potatoes, meat and baking — each photographed step by step. en-us https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/blueberry-cake/ https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/blueberry-cake/ Tue, 11 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT A butter sponge with half a kilo of blueberries — some folded through the batter, the rest laid in the base of the tin so they end up on top. https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/apple-and-peach-charlotte/ https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/apple-and-peach-charlotte/ Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT Five eggs whipped with sugar, a cup of flour folded in, and as much fruit as the tin will take. No butter, no baking powder, forty minutes. https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/syrnyky/ https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/syrnyky/ Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT Small, tender pancakes made from farmer cheese rather than batter, fried three minutes a side and eaten hot with sour cream or jam. https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/ukrainian-borscht/ https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/ukrainian-borscht/ Sat, 28 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT The everyday borscht we actually make: beef simmered into its own broth, beetroot fried with tomato so the colour holds, cabbage added late. https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/chicken-and-mushroom-soup/ https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/chicken-and-mushroom-soup/ Sun, 01 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT A clear, light soup built on separately fried mushrooms and a soffritto of onion and carrot, with potato and poached chicken. An hour, one pot and one pan. https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/okroshka-with-radishes/ https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/okroshka-with-radishes/ Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT A cold soup of diced cucumber, radish, potato, egg and ham, loosened with soured water and served properly chilled. https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/oven-baked-plov/ https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/oven-baked-plov/ Sun, 09 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT Beef browned with onion and carrot, rice layered on top, water poured over and the whole thing left uncovered in the oven until every grain is separate. https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/fried-chicken-livers-with-hearts/ https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/fried-chicken-livers-with-hearts/ Thu, 27 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT Livers and hearts fried hard, then softened with onion and garlic under a lid. Forty minutes, one pan, and cheaper than almost anything else you could cook. https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/potato-varenyky/ https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/potato-varenyky/ Tue, 21 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT Soft-dough Ukrainian dumplings filled with potato and fried onion, boiled for seven minutes and served under more onion and a spoon of sour cream. https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/layered-potatoes-with-pork/ https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/layered-potatoes-with-pork/ Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT Pork, sour cream, onion and thinly sliced potato built up in a tray and baked for fifty minutes, finished with grated cheese. https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/potato-zrazy-with-meat/ https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/potato-zrazy-with-meat/ Thu, 02 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT Mashed potato worked into a dough, wrapped around fried minced meat and onion, then pan-fried until the outside is crisp and the inside is soft. https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/potato-deruny/ https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/potato-deruny/ Sun, 15 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT Coarsely grated potato and onion bound with one egg and a little flour, fried until the edges go lacy and brown. Twenty-five minutes from raw potato to plate. https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/baked-potatoes-with-chicken-and-mushrooms/ https://easternhomekitchen.com/recipes/baked-potatoes-with-chicken-and-mushrooms/ Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT Everything sliced, tossed with garlic and cream, and baked on one tray for forty minutes, with grated cheese thrown on at the end.