Banosh

Banosh is the national dish of Hutsul cuisine. This is a sort of porridge of maize grain or flour boiled in sour cream with various additives on request hostess: pork rinds, cheese, sheep cheese, mushrooms and herbs. This dish very easy to prepare, although, like many national food, banosh has its secrets.

The dish is popular in the Carpathian region of westerm Ukraine and in Romania, where the dish is named bălmuș.

(The Hutsuls are an ethnic group spanning parts of western Ukraine and Romania. While they have often been officially and administratively designed as a subgroup of Ukrainians and are largely regarded as constiuting a broader Ukrainian ethnos some Hutsuls have rejected the ethonym and regard themselves as Rusyns.)