Christmas table-2024: how much will a traditional holiday dinner cost
Kyiv • UNN
A traditional Christmas meal in 2024 will cost Ukrainians UAH 1,365, up 41% from last year. The most expensive dishes will be fried fish, kutia and borscht with beans.
In 2024, a Christmas table will cost Ukrainians about UAH 1,365. This is 41% more than last year. The rise in price is largely the result of problems associated with Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing hostilities. This is reported by UNN with reference to the National Research Center “Institute of Agrarian Economics”.
According to estimates, a Christmas menu of dishes that are traditional for an average family's table: kutia and uzvar, fried fish, vinaigrette, dumplings, stewed cabbage, lean borscht with beans, fried potatoes, fresh and salted vegetables will cost about UAH 1365 per average family
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One of the traditional Ukrainian dishes for Christmas is kutia and uzvar.
According to the researchers, wheat kutia - 950 g of traditional recipe products - will cost UAH 175.05 and will be the second most expensive dish on the holiday table. The most expensive ingredients of the dish this year are: poppy seeds - UAH 68.5 per 200 g, as well as walnuts - UAH 44.89 and raisins - UAH 21.73 per 100 g, respectively. The main ingredient of kutia - durum wheat groats - will cost UAH 21.30 per 400 g. For honey, we will pay another UAH 16.90 per 100 g and add some sugar (50 g) for UAH 1.73.
Ready-made fruit sets of these fruits for jam cost 105.36 UAH (600 g per 2 liters of water) in supermarkets.
The most expensive dish this year will be fried fish - UAH 306.97. You will have to pay UAH 301 for 2 kg of live carp, and UAH 5.97 for 200 g of flour.
The third most expensive dish will be lean borscht with beans. You will have to pay 131.94 UAH for 2.535 kg of food (2 liters of water). The most expensive ingredient here is dry white beans (300 g) - 43.53 UAH. The vegetable component will be: potatoes (362 g) - 12.59 UAH, cabbage (300 g) - 12.66 UAH, onions (100 g) - 1.75 UAH, carrots (400 g) - 12.08 UAH, beets (800 g) - 16.15 UAH. You will need to add 70-75 g of tomatoes (8.31 UAH) and tomato paste (11.82 UAH). A little more sugar - 1.73 UAH per 50 g, vegetable oil - 6.21 UAH per 80 g, to taste: black pepper and salt (1.87 UAH), bay leaf (3.24 UAH) or herbs.
The Vinaigrette salad (1.73 kg of products) will cost 67.75 UAH. The most expensive ingredients will be barrel pickles at UAH 21.40 per 200 g. For vegetables, we will pay: potatoes (600 g) - 20.86 UAH, beets (400 g) - 8.08 UAH, carrots (378 g) - 11.42 UAH, onions (100 g) - 1.75 UAH. Dressing with vegetable oil costs 3.88 UAH per 50 g and salt to taste (0.36 UAH).
Dumplings are also a traditional Lenten dish.
Dumplings with potatoes (1.51 kg of products) will cost UAH 50.06, including potatoes (1 kg) - UAH 34.77, flour (500 g) - UAH 14.93, salt (10 g) - UAH 0.36.
Dumplings with cabbage (1.481 kg of products) cost 52.50 UAH. To prepare the dough, we will pay 14.93 UAH for flour (500 g) and 0.36 UAH for salt (10 g). Raw cabbage will cost 25.32 UAH for 600 g, carrots (189 g) - 5.71 UAH, and onions (132 g) - 2.30 UAH. Vegetable oil for dressing (50 g) will cost UAH 3.88.
Cherry dumplings consist of lean dough and frozen cherries. Flour (500 g) costs UAH 14.93, and a little salt (10 g) costs UAH 0.36. Cherries account for the lion's share of the cost of these dumplings - 54.45 UAH per 300 g. In total, the cost of such dumplings will be 69.74 UAH (for 810 g of products).
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Stewed cabbage (2.229 g of products) will cost 109.88 UAH. The most expensive here are champignon mushrooms (300 g) - UAH 43.88. The cost of vegetables will be 59.43 UAH: 1 kg of cabbage - 42.20 UAH, 189 g of carrots - 5.71 UAH, 660 g of onions - 11.52 UAH.
Salt and pepper to taste - 0.36 g. Vegetable oil (80 g) - 6.21 UAH.
Fried potatoes are cooked with 100 g of vegetable oil (7.76 UAH) from 1 kg of potatoes (34.77 UAH) and 132 g of onions (2.30 UAH) with salt and pepper to taste (0.36 UAH). The total cost is 45.19 UAH.
Pickles are served separately: sauerkraut - 75 UAH per 500 g - and pickled barrel cucumbers - 42 UAH per 400 g.
There are also fresh vegetables on the table - cucumbers (70 UAH) and tomatoes (64 UAH), 500 g each, respectively.
Recall
The Center for Public Health of Ukraine has provided recommendations on the safe storage and preparation of holiday meals. In December-January 2023-2024, 6527 cases of food poisoning were recorded, which is 13% more than last year.
