This soup has dozens of ingredients and can take up to 3 hours to prepare. It can be served hot or cold and is best served with a dollop of fresh sour cream on top and special garlic bread called pampushka. Soups are the most popular lunch meals across the country and this is another Russian favourite. Okroshka is a cold soup that originated in the Volga region. These little baked or fried puff pastries are packed full of potatoes, meat, cabbage, or cheese.
The stuffed pockets are popular all around Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. It is a very popular snack in Russian schools and factories. Shashlik is a Russian take on a kebab, and like any kebab, it consists of cubed meat and veggies grilled on skewers.
This dish comes from the Caucasian Mountain tribesmen and became popular after the conquest of the Caucasus in the 19th century. Nowadays nearly every family has its own secret recipe for shashlik that is guarded closely. The key to success however, lies in the marinade. Keen to visit Russia? Book Wonders of St Petersburg and Moscow with Trafalgar to discover what this great country has to offer.
Travelled to Russia before? Share your favourite Russian dishes in the comments below. While different recipes call for various ingredients, shchi often contains potatoes, carrots, onions, and possibly some type of meat such as chicken. The cabbage can also be replaced with sauerkraut, which is then called sour shchi. Solyanka is a thick soup that is plentiful enough to be a meal in itself.
This soup is made with various types of meat, including sausage, bacon, ham, and beef, as well as vegetables such as cabbage, carrots, onions, and potatoes. Chopped pickles and the traditional lemon slice garnish play an important role in giving this recipe its sour flavor. It is often also made with fish and pickled cucumbers.
If you like seafood, try ukha, a fish soup with a clear broth. Many different kinds of fish can be used to make this soup, including bream, wels catfish, northern pike, and ruffe. You may have already heard of pirozhki also known as piroshki or pyrizhky. These little baked or fried puff pastries are packed full of potatoes, meat, cabbage, or cheese. The stuffed pockets are popular all around Russia, and Ukraine. Pelmeni is considered the national dish of Russia. They are pastry dumplings are typically filled with minced meat and wrapped in a thin, pasta-like dough.
They can be served alone, slathered in butter and topped with sour cream, or in a soup broth. Definitely a favorite in Russia and Eastern Europe!
Blini is a wheat pancake rolled with a variety of fillings: jam, cheese, sour cream, caviar, onions, or even chocolate syrup. It is Russia's equivalent to a crepe. Blini are such an important part of Russian cuisine, a festival called Maslenitsa celebrates the beginning of spring with them.
It is usually the main dish and tea with sweets or cakes instead of kompot or kisel. Now it is difficult to say what is a typical time for a Russian, living in Moscow to eat dinner.
I would say that it used to be pm, but the traffic jams in the city are terrible , so for many people dinner is when they get home. Most people believe that it is unhealthy to eat after 6 pm How Russians stay in shape , but eat dinner at 9 pm and then have tea and cakes or snacks in front of the TV. Hope that would be interesting for you! But please comment, ask questions, tell me what people eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner where you live!
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Understand Russia. Stories about everyday life in Russia. Kisel — a jelly version of kompot. Business lunch in a steak house. Share this:. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Anonymous - 6 years ago. Anonymous - 5 years ago. Rose Coey - 4 years ago.
Anonymous - 4 years ago. Check out our recipe for cocktail blini. This cold soup is made from chopped raw cucumbers, radishes and spring onions, boiled potatoes, boiled eggs, and cooked meat.
These ingredients are mixed with kvass and served with smetana which is often mixed through it so it appears creamy. Have you visited Russia? Let us know if you have any other foodie suggestions below…. Subscriber club Reader offers More Good Food.
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