Adoption Unit: Embassy of Ukraine in the USA

12/23/2023

On Christmas Eve, the most important dish—and first consumed—is kutia (sweetened wheat berries). We share with you the recipe published by the Smithsonian Institution:

🥄 Ingredients
🔹 500 grams hard white winter wheat berries
🔹1.5–2 liters water
🔹 200 grams poppy seeds
🔹 150 grams honey
🔹 200 grams raisins
🔹 300 grams toasted walnuts
🔹 100 grams sugar

🥣 Preparation
Soak the wheat berries in water overnight.

The following day, drain them and boil them in 1.5 to 2 liters of water for approximately 2 hours, stirring occasionally and adding water as needed. Once soft, drain completely.
Rinse the poppy seeds, then soak in boiled hot water for around 30 minutes. Drain them, and grind them with a wooden pestle or makohin in a ceramic bowl or blitz them in a blender with the sugar.

Soak the raisins in hot water for just a few minutes. Drain and rinse.
Finely chop the walnuts. Combine all ingredients in a bowl and stir well, adding honey to taste.

Enjoy! 😋

🔍 Read more about Ukrainian Christmas traditions here http://surl.li/onsmj

📷 Sonya Pencheva, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives

Traditionally, there should always be twelve meatless dishes served for svyata vecherya, or Christmas Eve dinner.

01/26/2023

Students from all over the world are increasingly interested in the phenomenon of Ukraine and Ukrainians! From now on, the online course "Ukraine: History, Culture, and Identities" is available to more than 10 million users of the Coursera educational platform.

🏆 The course was awarded by the University of Washington! It is thanks to a thorough academic review that the educational materials received an official recommendation and the right to be placed on the global educational platform Coursera.

This is a short introductory course on the history, culture and society of Ukraine — from the Middle Ages to the present day. It not only provides basic knowledge of the history and culture of Ukraine, but also shows the influence of Ukraine on European and world history.

In addition to video lectures, the course contains additional sources: texts, videos and Internet resources that will allow you to deepen your knowledge of Ukraine.

📍 The course is free. The language is English. Register, learn and share with loved ones: https://bit.ly/3XIB2qi

The online course "Ukraine: History, Culture, and Identities" was developed by the Ukrainian Institute - Український інститут, the EdEra online education studio, and the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" (NaUKMA).

12/26/2022

We wish you a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!

11/24/2022

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

May you enjoy the day with your family and friends!

07/04/2022

We sincerely congratulate the American people on the U.S. 🇺🇸 and extend our best wishes of lasting prosperity and progress!

06/01/2022

June 1 has always been a day of warmth, joy and children's smiles.

has overshadowed this day with war, russia is stealing the childhood of our children, it wants to destroy our future. But we are fighting back and we will defend every Ukrainian child. For the future of Ukraine, for a peaceful sky and a happy childhood.

In the last three months, they have experienced and seen the horrors that children should not feel. Now they have completely different dreams, desires and new fears. Their children's, formerly positive and cheerful, pictures have also changed - they see and feel the world around them in a completely different way.

Aza Nizi Maza

04/17/2022

Happy Easter to everyone who is celebrating today! Today we are all united in prayers for peace, and in having faith in the victory of light, not darkness; life, not death.

The good always wins, the evil always sinks 😉

Art: The Sunday Times

03/01/2022

A piece of shrapnel stuck in Ukrainian passport. It saved life of the 16 year boy. Mariupol, Ukraine, 1 March 2022.

The boy is in surgery now. Shelling of the city continues.

Photo: Mstyslav Chernov

02/28/2022

According to the Minister of Healthcare Viktor Liashko, in 4 days of the war, the Russians killed 16 children.

02/26/2022

Few hours ago a child was born in the Kyiv metro (shelter).

02/25/2022

❗❗❗ Rocket launcher "Hail" hits the orphanages in Vorzel

02/22/2022