Russian cuisine

What sort of food do Russians eat in general? Russian people generally eat a rich and varied diet. However they do eat a lot of dairy products. Some of these include a sick sour cream called smetana. A cream cheese called tvorog and the drink called kefir.

Tvorog and smetana

What sort of food do people serve on their tables?
They serve a wide variety of traditional Russian dishes. There’s draniki which are potato pancakes, salo which is tender pork fat, pelmeni which is pasta stuffed with pork and onions and different sorts of porridge with milk, meat or butter.

Draniki

Pelmeni

Salo with potatoes and cucumbers

Porridge

Well, appetizers are usually fish or meat dishes. Popular festive fish dishes are salmon, herring and smoked sturgeon. Many people like eating fried crucians, pikes, carps etc. Of the meat appetizers buzhenina and holodetz which are lean boiled pork with spices as well as jellied tongue served with horseradish sauce. Russian people like mushrooms, vinaigrette (or Russian salad) very much too.
What sort of dishes are popular appetizers?

Red fish

Salted herring / ’Herring under furcoat’

Smoked sturgeon

Fried crucians

Buzhenina, jellied tongue

Holodetz

Vinaigrette (Russian salad)

Mushrooms

Borsch, shchi, solyanka, rassolnik and okroshka from kvas or kefir are very popular.
Okroshka from kefir

Kvas

Okroshka from kvas

Solyanka can be made from meat or fish or mushrooms.

Borsch is made from beets, salo, cabbage and with smetana.

Shchi is made from cabbage and potato. Everyone loves Shchi.

Fish soup or ukha

What are some special main courses?

Golubtsy is minced lamb, pork and rice wrapped in cabbage and topped with a cream sauce (smetana)-delicious!

Grilled piglet

Desserts
Backed apple and baked pumpkin are popular desserts as is fruit and berry kisel which is a sort of sour fruit jelly.
Russian people like drinking tea with jam, blini, and a wide selection of freshly baked pies, pirozhki, ponchiki etc.

Baked apples

Baked pumpkin

Kisel

Blini

Tea-table

Ingredients:
Pickling is very popular in Russia.

Here is the recipe of pickled tomatoes.
Ingredients:
Tomatoes/Dill/Horseradish leaves/Cherry leaves/Blackcurrant leaves/garlic/summer savoury/coarse grain salt/water
Sterilised jars
Рreparation:
1. Sort tomatoes by size and ripeness, wash in cold water.
2. For every 5 kg tomatoes use 75 g dill/ 30 g horseradish greens, cherry leaves, blackcurrant leaves (don’t worry if you can’t find all of these leaves:while all are desirable, any one of three will do fine), 6-7 garlic cloves (peeled), as well as a half spring each of tarragon and savoury.
3. The amount of salt required for pickling depends on the ripeness of the tomatoes. Green or brown tomatoes need 70-80 g of salt per litre of water. Red tomatoes need 100 g of salt per litre.
4. Line the bottom of a sterilised jar with one third of the spice/herb/garlic mixture, with dill at the bottom.
5. Place tomatoes neatly on top of the spices until the jar is half full.
6. Place another layer of spice mixture on top of tomatoes, and then add one more layer of tomatoes. Place remaining spice mixture on top.
7. Add salted water, making sure tomatoes are completely covered, and seal jar.
8. Store for 2-3 months at 5 C.
9. Open and enjoy.

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