Hutsul cuisine: the secrets of local residents

I think every connoisseur of the Carpathians had to try traditional dishes Hutsul, and those who have not tried, to be able to prepare for our recipes and recommendations Hutsul goodies. Delicious cuisine and a highly Highlanders occupies an important place among tourists who love to feast on tasty. Even in the process of preparing certain dishes (a long and complex) is used almost every member of the campaign, and when the dish is ready – the words are superfluous!

List of the top delicacies Gutsulschiny opens mushroom Zupa (soup) – a common simple first meal of mountain communities. The main ingredient of which are mushrooms. Best to use a young mushroom first category (in the case of white mushrooms sponge layer must be of a light color if the color of the sponge layer, yellow or olive green such fungi are not used). For the preparation of suitable fresh or dried edible mushrooms, but it is best to use two kinds of mushrooms: chanterelles and white. Traditionally, this dish is prepared without potatoes. Internet spreads recipe, based on chicken broth is used, but in the case of a true Hutsul dishes this recommendation can be ignored. These hutsuly boiled mountain mushroom zupu on pure spring water. An important observation is the fact that during the preparation of mushroom zupy, mushrooms had never boiled, and the broth is not discharged, because it prepares of edible fungi that these manipulations do not need. For zupy often use small noodles avoiding spaghetti, shells, drill and other products made of dough, as the noodles in this dish serves as an auxiliary ingredient for harmony of taste. Banush (banosh) Carpathian. Banush – legendary traditional dish of the Carpathians, from time immemorial cooked, cook now and will always be a hallmark of the mountains. For its preparation Hutsul craftsmen adhere to the main rules: “banush cooked in a pot on an open fire, gain energy and plowed fire smoke – it is a prerequisite of preparation,” – says a local resident.

Banush Stir with a wooden spoon. The dish consists of three components: corn flour (grits is not used) cooked in sour cream, with smoked lard and Poloninskoy cheese. These components during preparation do not mix with each other. The important point is sour cream. The inhabitants of the mountains using only domestic production of the cream from the store of speech can not be. Also used sheep’s cheese.

Banush incredibly tasty treat! This dish unlikely you will find in the restaurant’s only “mountain children” know all the secrets. Mushroom smazhka with Kuleshov. One of the signature dishes Hutsul can rightly be called smazhku. This taste of mushrooms in smazhke you will not find in any dish that you had to try. To prepare only use fresh mushrooms, mainly: young white and chanterelles.

What distinguishes it from the rest of the dish? The main principle is that the mushrooms are cooked only on milk. In all this beauty combine flour, fresh milk and sour cream, onion, parsley and dill. Mushroom grease in consistency sauces shaped away resembling cream soup.

And where smazhka without Kuleshov! Kulesza produced only in a bowler hat, like all first courses of the Carpathian people.  In boiling salted water trickle add corn flour and stir until thick.

The secret of success is not enough depends on the method feeder smazhki. Hutsuls abruptly overturned pot on the plate so that Kulesza stick together. In some villages of the Carpathian Kuleshov cut rope. Cabbage on milk. Widely used in the Carpathians, there are dishes with cabbage. There are many options: stuffed cabbage rolls are not without a cabbage leaf, skits, sauerkraut and onions oiled – and most delicious salad. Cabbage milk – simple in ingredients and in cooking. Young cabbage boiled in milk for half an hour, shred and add sour cream. Also in the course are: corned beef or smoked bacon, onions, herbs and seasoning.

Best of cabbage with milk combined with hot Kuleshov. Hutsul cuisine – nourishing stuff. It is best to not eat a meal daily or a few kilometers to walk in the mountains. And the most delicious dish is that you have prepared yourself under the guidance of a resident of the Carpathians.