Christmas Eve, Ukraine celebrates the Holy Evening and traditionally puts 12 meatless dishes on the table – according to the number of apostles.

Traditional Christmas dish prepared with honey, poppyseeds, pearlized wheat & walnuts.

Kutia is the main dish on a Ukrainian Christmas table. It has a special significance and Holy Dinner begins with it.

Vushka are tiny little Varenyky (shaped like a little ear) and filled with the finest dried mushrooms & onion mixture (a.k.a. mushroom tortellini). Traditionally added to Borshch at Christmas time.

Traditionally they were exclusively reserved for Christmas Eve.Vushka – or small dried-mushroom-stuffed varenyky – may be served either as a self-standing dish or as an ingredient of red borshch, hey would be floating inside and fished out with a spoon. The heavenly smell of vushkas would fill the entire room as soon as you start boiling them.

A Ukrainian can hardly imagine a Christmas Eve without kutia. Made of wheat and honey, it symbolizes prosperity and bridges the worlds of the alive and dead. This traditional recipe contains: pearlized wheat, poppy seeds, water, walnuts, and honey. Many variations exist with prunes, raising and other dried fruit & various nuts.

By tradition, Kutia is the first dish to start Christmas Eve dinner. The first spoon should be consumed by the head of the household.

Borshch Broth - rich beet flavour in a sweet & sour vegetarian broth. Seasoned with garlic, dill & black pepper.

While borshch is the most popular Ukrainian soup and is routinely consumed in every household, it is a must on Christmas Eve as well. The only difference is that borshch should be lean on this occasion.

Varenyky tossed with sautéed onions.

Available with all kinds of stuffing, they are usually served with cabbage, buckwheat, or potato on Christmas. They would normally be covered with a generous layer of onion-and-oil topping.

Saùteed Onions

Haddock baked & panko breaded. One serving is approx. 5 oz.

Buckwheat filled Cabbage Rolls

With the name HOLUBTSI deriving from dove (holub), they symbolize peace and serenity.

These cabbage rolls are consumed without meat on Christmas Eve:

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Cabbage Rolls HOLUBTSI filled with rice & chopped vegetables.

Cabbage Rolls HOLUBTSI filled with Rice & chopped vegetables.

Varenyky filled with sauerkraut & mushrooms

Mushroom sauce is vegetarian & filled with real mushrooms

Mushroom sauce is vegetarian & filled with real mushrooms

Our homemade Sautéed Sauerkraut is made from fresh chopped cabbage, grated, sautéed & seasoned to perfection.

Our homemade Sautéed Sauerkraut is made from fresh chopped cabbage, grated, sautéed & seasoned to perfection.

Uzvar is a traditional Christmas dried fruit compote. It must be on the Ukrainian Christmas table along with kutia.

Compote at Christmas time is called UZVAR! Made with stewed dried fruits: apricots, apples, raisins.

Uzvar is a traditional Christmas dried fruit compote. It must be on the Ukrainian Christmas table along with kutia.

Long Kolach - braided bread

is a traditional ceremonial bread made from white flour. Twisted and interlaced dough

Slightly resembling donuts, these deep-fried yeast patties are sweet & stuffed with plum jam, as a dessert, they are topped with sugar powder to be more enticing.

Poppyseed Roll - available in 2 sizes - half or full.