Hearty soups, tender desserts, fluffy pastry… Russian delicacies consists of an enormous variety of dishes of assorted areas and peoples. We have chosen the principle delights you could attempt in Russia.
100. Echpochmak
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Echpochmak was a standard meals of nomads: individuals would put uncooked meat stuffing right into a triangle-shaped pastry and pour scorching broth by a particular gap, so it grew to become an actual scorching dish. These days, echpochmak is taken into account to be a trademark of the Republic of Tatarstan.
99. Sbiten
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Before the Russians discovered tea, sbiten was the principle drink to heat up throughout the chilly season. Honey was dissolved in boiling water with herbs (mint, sage, and so on.) and spices (cardamom, cloves, cinnamon). Sbiten is particularly tasty with pryaniki (gingerbread) and do-it-yourself cookies.
98. Chudu
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In Dagestan, chudus are as in style as chebureks on Black Coastline. It is a skinny or puffy flatbread with meat or vegetable fillings, cooked in a dry pan and smeared with butter or oil.
97. Okroshka
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Recipes for okroshka will be present in cookbooks for the reason that late 18th century. Classic okroshka is made with finely chopped greens, meat and herbs with white kvass (not candy). Later, a variety of alternate options to kvass appeared – mineral water, kefir, ayran and different dairy merchandise.
96. Semolina porridge
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Russian youngsters eat this porridge for breakfast at house, in kindergartens, colleges and canteens. For a lot of Russians, mannaya kasha conjures the perfect and worst childhood reminiscence unexpectedly. One the one hand, this porridge can include lumps, however, on the opposite, the milky semolina kasha is at all times served with jam. So tasty!
95. Kalitki
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This traditional dish of Karelian and North-Russian delicacies obtained its title after a small purse in Outdated Russian (‘kalita’), which it resembles in form. The fillings for kalitki, primarily pies fabricated from unleavened rye dough, will be very totally different: cereals, mashed potatoes, berries, and so on.
94. Kalach
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In outdated occasions, kalach was probably the most beloved Russian quick meals. This bagel-like bread was baked normally within the type of a “kettlebell” with a “deal with” to carry. Native kalaches will be tried right now within the cities of Kolomna, Tobolsk and Murom.
93. Adygei cheese
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Adygei cheese is a comfortable white sort of cheese produced from cow’s milk. It’s produced by Circassians within the Republic of Adygea. This cheese is commonly added to salads and soups. You may also bake meat and fish with it or make syrniki, cheesecakes and different desserts.
92. Shortbread rings with peanuts
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In Soviet occasions, you possibly can discover these cookies in each college cafeteria and in any grocery retailer. Now, it appears utterly uncomplicated, however the simplicity of the shortbread dough is offset by the nuts, so the extra peanuts – the tastier.
91. Fish rasstegai
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These pies with a fish filling are historically baked open, as if “undone” on prime (therefore the title). Virtually any fish will do, however trout or salmon are sometimes used for festive events.
90. Cranberries in powdered sugar
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Bitter berries in a “snowy” and really candy shell that bursts within the mouth – that is what number of bear in mind this dessert in a cardboard field from childhood. And it is nonetheless bought on this packaging right now. For those who make it yourself, you should use lingonberries as a substitute of cranberries, as properly.
89. Pickled mushrooms
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Milk mushrooms, white mushrooms, chanterelles are usually used for pickling. Salted mushrooms are served as an appetizer and in addition added to soups, salads, used as a filling for pies and pancakes.
88. Pearl barley porridge
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Tsar porridge – that is what Russians name the traditional means of cooking this porridge with mushrooms or meat. Pearl barley was extremely valued by the royals. It was even served on the coronation of Nicholas II. This recipe with mushrooms was one among Peter the Nice’s favorites. And it was he who launched pearl porridge into the military’s weight loss program.
87. Eggplant caviar
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This veggie appetizer grew to become in style within the Nineteen Seventies because of the well-known Soviet comedy known as ‘Ivan Vasilievich Adjustments Occupation’. The eggplant caviar was proven there as a really uncommon “abroad” delicacy that was worthy of a outstanding place on the tsar’s feasting desk. This scene was so in style that many Russians nonetheless check with eggplant caviar as “abroad”.
86. Kovrizhka
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Kovrizhka resembles a big comfortable gingerbread with the addition of spices, honey, raisins and candied fruits. Overseas “relations” of kovrizhka embody the German Stollen and English gingerbread.
85. Perepechi
This can be a dish of the Udmurt delicacies, harking back to a vatrushka or a small pizza. Perepechi can have meat, mushroom or vegetable fillings, corresponding to cabbage or nettle.
84. Karavay
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This wedding Slav bread is taken into account to be a logo of happiness and abundance. It’s historically adorned with ears molded from the bread (for prosperity), clusters of guelder rose (for youths), two rings or a pair of swans (as a logo of constancy). The bride and groom are the primary to take a chew of the karavay after which they share it with all of the visitors, as if sharing their happiness.
83. Kurnik
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A kurnik is a standard meat pie that was baked by the Don and Kuban Cossacks for weddings and, later, the recipe unfold all through Russia. Most frequently, the filling was rooster (“kuritsa” in Russian) – that is why it was known as kurnik. Nevertheless, within the north, kurniks are also prepared with fish.
82. Sorrel soup
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This inexperienced soup is boiled with plenty of recent (or thawed) sorrel with potatoes and eggs. It is also usually eaten with rooster or beef broth. The primary factor is to not neglect bitter cream and recent herbs when serving!
81. Ryazhenka
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This fermented dairy product is made from fermented cow’s milk. They’re related in composition, however ryazhenka is best digested. Not like milk, ryazhenka has a fragile creamy hue and caramel taste. Beforehand, ryazhenka was ready at a low temperature in an oven from milk and bitter cream, however now the expertise has been simplified – ryazhenka is produced from milk and particular ferments.
80. Eggs full of caviar
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A basic of the Soviet New Year’s Eve feast! Halves of boiled eggs are full of yolks, herbs, mayonnaise (in fact!) and adorned with purple or black caviar.
79. Khychin
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Within the Caucasus republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, the khychin flatbread with numerous fillings is the real king of the table. Balkar khychins are skinny flatbreads, whereas Karachai ones are produced from puffy dough with kefir or milk. Largely, they’re full of potatoes, herbs and meat.
78. Kulich
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This Russian Easter bread has a cylindrical form, with the highest adorned with icing or powdered sugar, raisins, nuts and candied fruits. Historically, kulichsare consecrated together with eggs and Paskha cottage cheese on the eve of Easter.
77. Paskha
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This cottage cheese dessert is made once a year – at Easter. The Paskha (Easter) cottage cheese is shaped like a truncated pyramid, which symbolizes the Tomb of the Lord. In addition to cottage cheese, Paskha contains butter, sour cream, eggs and sugar. Raisins, candied fruits and lemon zest are also added to taste.
76. Buckwheat porridge with scratchings
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That is a variation of camping porridge – when a tasty and hearty dish is ready from a minimal variety of substances. Simply fry meat scratchings or bacon with onions after which stew all of it with buckwheat and spices.
75. Baked apples
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One thing candy, anybody? This historic Russian dessert will attraction to all apple lovers. Take an apple, minimize out the core, stuff it with cottage cheese and raisins and sprinkle cinnamon on prime or add some honey for sweetness. Then bake until ready!
74. Crab stick salad
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Faux crab, you will say… and you will be proper. However, this Soviet salad with rice, canned corn and crab sticks (which encompass minced fish and starch) at all times seems on the most solemn moments in Russia.
73. Shangi
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Shangi look similar to vatrushki, however they’re most frequently baked with a savoury filling. Initially, they have been cooked with pea porridge and bitter cream, however now extra frequent are variations with mashed potatoes, cottage cheese, buckwheat and eggs. Eat shangi scorching with soup, tea or milk.
72. Crepe-cake
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If a few bliny will not be sufficient, you’ll be able to at all times make a multi-layer cake. And for this you do not have to attend for Maslenitsa week. For one cake it is sufficient to prepare dinner 20 pancakes, grease them with cream based mostly on bitter cream and depart the cake within the fridge for 3-4 hours. The scrumptious cake for tea is then prepared.
71. Stuffed Peppers
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Stuffed peppers at all times look spectacular, and because of the warmth remedy, the stuffing has time to absorb the flavour of the peppers and the sauce, whether or not it’s broth, cream, tomato or bitter cream sauce. The most typical filling is minced meat with or with out rice, however peppers with cheese or greens aren’t any much less tasty.
70. Moskva Cake
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This cake appeared in 2015 as a gastronomic symbol of the Russian capital. The ‘Moscow cake’ includes meringue, hazelnut and boiled condensed milk. The cake is roofed in purple icing, with an outline of the statue to the founding father of the town, Yury Dolgoruky, and the inscription “Moscow” fabricated from white chocolate on prime.
69. Lazy vareniki
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A folks dish for lazy cooks: make a roll from tvorog dough, minimize into items, add any jam, seal them and boil in boiling water. Fantastic result!
68. Tsvetaeva pie
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This apple pie was usually baked within the household of Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva. The peculiarity of the desert is in a fragile bitter cream dough. Fall kinds of apples swimsuit the perfect. Followers of Tsvetaeva’s poetry normally have a good time her birthday on October 8 by making her favorite pie.
67. Ukha
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In the 11-12th centuries, the word ‘ukha’ was the name of almost any soup implying a broth (mushroom, chicken, etc.). Eventually, in the 18th century, ukha became a fish dish. Modern ukha is a soup with a clear broth of one or more kinds of fish with onions, potatoes, carrots and spices. Fishermen cook ukha over a hearth and add some vodka on the finish.
66. Mimosa salad
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The Russian New Year is impossible without this salad! A number of layers of canned fish (most frequently salmon or saury/mackerel to style), grated egg whites and yolks, cheese and greenery – and your Mimosa is prepared.
65. Pastila
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An historic Russian delicacy, pastila has been recognized for the reason that 14th century. Its homeland is most frequently known as the town of Kolomna close to Moscow. Pastila is made from apples, with honey and typically egg whites.
64. Zephyr
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A young dessert fabricated from fruit puree, named after Zephyrus, the traditional Greek god of the west wind, the messenger of spring. A zephyr (a sort of hardened marshmallow) is the youthful sibling of the pastila, which differs not solely in form, but additionally in the usage of sugar as a substitute of conventional honey.
63. Baranki
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Barankiare baked within the type of a circle or an oval, 7-10 cm in diameter. A baranki’s essential characteristic is its shiny floor, because of the distinctive cooking methodology: they’re boiled first, then dried and solely then baked. They symbolize the solar, which is why the Slavs so eagerly adorned their properties with garlands of baranki or hung them on the samovar.
62. Bubliki/ bagels
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Bubliki are much like baranki, however they’re bigger – they attain as much as 20 cm in diameter. The dough is softer, thus, bubliki cannot be saved for months like baranki.
61. Solyanka
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This soup has an unusual sour-salty taste – it is all concerning the pickles, olives, lemon and, typically, kvass which might be added to it. There are three kinds of solyanka: meat, fish, and mushroom. Throughout the Soviet period, solyanka was even bought as prompt soup in cans.
60. Leningrad cake
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The Leningrad cake relies on shortbread truffles soaked in butter cream and adorned with chocolate glaze. Probably the most scrumptious factor is the nut crumb coating on the edges. The cake was first made within the well-known Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) cafe ‘Sever’ (“North”), which nonetheless operates.
59. Kissel
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In historic occasions, kissel was a separate dish produced from fermented oatmeal with water – that’s, one thing like a pudding. Fashionable kissel is a thick fruit and berry drink with starch. In shops, it’s bought within the type of briquettes that should be dissolved in water, however kids like to chew on them similar to that.
58. Belyashi
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This dish from the Tatar and Bashkir cuisines was a popular street food in Soviet occasions. Fried doughnut-style dough full of minced meat have been in nice demand at prepare stations and never solely.
57. Varenye
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In Russia, varenye (jam or preserves) can be made with many things: berries, fruits and even pine cones. In Astrakhan Area, watermelons are additionally used – such varenye known as nardek or “watermelon honey”.
56. Pickled/ Lightly salted cucumbers
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Crispy cucumbers salted with garlic and dill are a standard Russian snack eaten when consuming vodka and cucumber brine is allegedly a remedy for a hangover. As well as, cucumbers are good as an appetizer with potatoes, they’re utilized in salads (French dressing) and soups (rassolnik).
55. Waffle tubes
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Many individuals affiliate this dessert with childhood. To get crunchy waffle tubes with boiled condensed milk in Soviet occasions was an actual deal with! They weren’t usually out there on the market and a private waffle griddle was a luxurious.
54. Sauerkraut
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Cabbage with carrots and sour cranberries after a number of days of fermentation in a salt resolution turns into an awesome snack for any event. Generally an apple, beet, or bell pepper is added to the cabbage.
53. Millet pumpkin porridge
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Millet goes completely with pumpkin, enriching its style and imparting an unmistakable taste. Add nuts, raisins and dried apricots – and you will get an ideal Russian breakfast!
52. Sugar tongues
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Some of the in style Soviet (and fashionable) desserts are sugar “tongues”. Puff pastry truffles sprinkled with sugar. All the things ingenious is straightforward!
51. Ossetian pie
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That is in all probability one of the vital in style regional dishes that you could find throughout Russia! Ossetian pies have many varieties, together with fyddzhyn with meat and broth, cheese walibah and kadurdzhyn with beans. Really, it is simpler to eat than to pronounce!
50. Rum baba cupcakes
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Rum cake? A bit. Rum-baba produced from muffin pastry is soaked in syrup with a small quantity of cognac or rum and coated with sugar fudge. ‘Baba’ is the outdated title for festive cake in Western Russia.
49. French dressing
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The phrase, which in France means salad dressing, has grow to be a complete salad in Russia. Most definitely, French dressing got here into Russian delicacies from Europe. The basic Russian French dressing consists of finely chopped boiled beets, carrots, potatoes, onions, peas and salted or pickled cucumbers with a dressing of oil and vinegar. There are many versions of vinaigrette – with substances like sauerkraut, beans, mushrooms, meat, chopped eggs and herring.
48. Chak-chak
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Plenty of items of crunchy dough generously soaked in candy honey syrup – that is what conventional Tatar chak-chak cookies are fabricated from. Within the Tatar language, “chak-chak” means “a little bit bit”: maybe it is all about small items of dough from which the dessert is made.
47. Pozharsky cutlets
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These chicken cutlets in crispy golden croutons appeared within the Russian delicacies at first of the nineteenth century: they have been cooked within the tavern of Evdokim Pozharsky within the city of Torzhok (Tver Area) and word-of-mouth immediately unfold happy evaluations throughout the nation. Even Emperor Nicholas I preferred this dish!
46. Candy zapekanka
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Tender cottage cheese zapekanka (much like a cheesecake) with raisins is one among the healthiest desserts in Russian delicacies. Mixed with bitter cream or do-it-yourself jam, it turns into an actual gastronomic pleasure.
45. Sharlotka cake
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This in style Russian apple pie is a folks model of the Charlotte Russe dessert, invented by the French chef of Emperor Alexander I. Initially, it was a cake with cream and whipped cream, which later changed into a biscuit with apples. Even a toddler can bake it!
44. Guryev porridge
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Tender semolina with berries and nuts flip this kasha right into a dessert. The porridge was invented within the early nineteenth century by Zakhar Kuzmin, a peasant who served as a prepare dinner in the home of Russia’s Finance Minister Dmitry Guryev. The recipe has remained unchanged since tsarist occasions.
43. Sochnik
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A shortbread dough with cottage cheese filling – and it is SO yummy! And it was at all times within the menu of canteens, from college to work. The phrase “sochnik” originates from “sok” (“juice”), as a result of juice was used within the historic recipe. Now you’ll be able to make it yourself and it is a lot simpler!
42. Smetannik
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Greetings to all bitter cream lovers! Biscuits cooked on bitter cream and soaked in bitter cream kind the premise of this classic Russian cake. And every chef normally decorates it in their very own means, so there is no such thing as a finish to creativity.
41. Rassolnik
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This soup relies on pickled cucumbers. The pickle juice (“rassol” in Russian) offers the soup a nice sourness. As well as, broth wheats (usually pearl barley), potatoes and items of meat are sometimes added. The two most famous versions of the pickle bear the names of Moscow and Leningrad. The ‘Leningrad’ rassolnik is made with beef broth, whereas the ‘Moscow’ rassolnik – with rooster.
40. Compote
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Soup, essential course – and compote produced from dried fruits for dessert. The best ingredients for this comfortable drink have been apples, pears, apricots and raisins. A very fashionable drink in canteens!
39. Rooster Kiev
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Meals historians imagine that Rooster Kiev was invented within the early twentieth century (in Moscow or St. Petersburg) and was later renamed Rooster Kiev by Soviet eating places. However, the recipe has not modified for the reason that USSR: it is a breaded rooster chop cutlet full of butter and herbs.
38. Tvorog ring
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There are lots of desserts with tvorog (cottage cheese) in Russian delicacies, however this dessert might be probably the most elegant. A custard pastry with a candy filling was on the tsar’s desk within the nineteenth century, but it surely grew to become out there to folks gourmets solely within the Soviet years.
37. Pirozhki
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Small pirozhki (pies) with salty fillings are historically eaten with soups, whereas candy ones are good with drinks – with sbiten (see No. 99), compote or tea. The most popular fillings for pirozhki are cabbage, minced meat, mashed potatoes with mushrooms, rice with eggs, berries and apples.
36. Vatrushka
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Historians nonetheless cannot determine how this phrase appeared in Russian delicacies and what it means. Some say that it has a typical root with the phrase “fireplace”, some assume it originates from the phrase “filling”, however this, fortuitously, doesn’t have an effect on the style. An incredible sweet bun with cottage cheese or jam!
35. Cheburek
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This big meat pie is the long-lasting dish of the Crimean Tatar delicacies – and a staple road meals throughout the entire Black Coastline. What makes its style unforgettable is the superior savoury filling of meat, spices and broth.
34. Golubtsy
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The title for these Russian cabbage rolls full of minced meat and rice actually means “pigeons”, however just for their form. Probably the most troublesome factor is to wrap all the things within the cabbage leaf. Nevertheless, there’s additionally a lazy possibility, when all of the substances are merely stewed collectively in a pan first.
33. Churchkhela
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A string of nuts in grape or pomegranate juice is probably probably the most well-known dessert you could attempt in Russia’s southern areas. Churchkhela has Georgian origins and have become very fashionable within the USSR when the Soviets began to spend holidays on the Black Coastline.
32. Glazed cottage cheese bars
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Chocolate-covered cottage cheese bars appeared within the USSR within the Thirties. This deal with rapidly grew to become in style amongst kids. Along with cottage cheese, they include butter, salt, sugar and different fruity fillers for taste. The chocolate coating makes them seem like the beloved Soviet ice cream ‘Eskimo’.
31. Cutlets with mashed potatoes
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Cutlets that have been served in Soviet canteens had a really delicate style and a unique consistency than do-it-yourself ones. The key was bread: it was added to avoid wasting on meat (minced meat was produced from beef and pork), but it surely turned out very properly. And mashed potatoes with milk as a facet dish and drink. Greatest lunch ever!
30. Mannik
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A simple and quick cake fabricated from manka (semolina) and kefir. Semolina makes this cake tender and ethereal. High the mannik with jam or powdered sugar!
29. Nevsky Pie
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This pie instantly conquers with its airy dough and cream. According to GOST (State Standard), the cream is made of butter and condensed milk. At a glance, the Nevsky pie resembles the Boston pie with out the chocolate, however, in truth, the recipes differ in dough and cream.
28. Veau Orloff
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Worldwide, this dish is known as meat or pork “Orlov-style” named in honor of Russian Count Alexei Orlov. It is his French chef who created the dish in the 19th century. Only, in Russia, pork or beef baked under a layer of potatoes and onions with bechamel sauce and cheese is called myaso po-Franzuzki or ‘meat French-style’.
27. Bushe cake
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Regardless of the French title, Bushe is an completely Soviet cake. It consists of two small biscuits with a cream layer. The cake is roofed with chocolate on prime.
26. Kefir
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Each Russian is aware of from childhood that this fermented milk drink with Caucasus roots could be very wholesome. Moreover the on a regular basis menu, kefir can be extensively utilized in cosmetology.
25. Ponchiki
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Ponchikiare round-shaped donut-like flour merchandise, fried in oil. Ponchiki are divided into these sprinkled with powdered sugar on prime, with a gap inside. They’re additionally known as pyshki. Probably the most well-known come from Pyshechnye bakeries in St. Petersburg. The second sort of ponchiki – within the type of a puffy ball, typically with a filling inside.
24. Medovik
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One of the most common homemade cakes within the post-Soviet area consists of a number of aromatic honey layers and bitter cream. Based on legend, we owe its look to the confectioner of the Russian Empress Elizabeth Alexeyevna (1779-1826, spouse of Emperor Alexander I). Unaware of Elisabeth’s “allergy” to honey, he handled her to his new honey cake, which captivated the empress and later your complete courtroom.
23. Kartoshka cake
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The kartoshka (actually “potato”) cake is definitely fabricated from cookies, cocoa and condensed milk and is among the best to organize. Even a child can make it. And it is also a really tasty means to make use of the biscuit leftovers.
22. Solyanka
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This hearty dish with Lithuanian roots rapidly grew to become in style within the Soviet military. Now, it might usually be present in canteens. Solyanka, or bigus consists of cabbage stewed with meat, sausages, fish or mushrooms.
21. Oreshki
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To makeoreshki (“nuts”), that are mainly cookies with boiled condensed milk, you want baking kinds or a particular frying pan with recesses (ideally within the form of nuts!). First, the halves are baked, then boiled condensed milk is added to every and they’re mixed.
20. Prague cake
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That is one of the most popular Russian cakes, created by Vladimir Guralnik, a pastry chef of Moscow’s ‘Prague’ restaurant within the Sixties. In his youth, Guralnik studied confectionary-making within the Czech capital and devoted this cake to the town. It consists of chocolate sponge layers unfold with apricot jam and chocolate butter cream and is then coated with a fragile chocolate glaze.
19. Oladyi
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Unlike blini, oladyi are smaller, but more fluffy. They are baked from wheat flour with the addition of yeast. Bitter cream and jam are a scrumptious condiment for breakfast oladyi.
18. Vareniki
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The closest relations of pelmeni, vareniki differ in filling (they’re usually cooked with cottage cheese, berries, potatoes or mushrooms), in addition to form. Vareniki may also be full of pre-boiled meat, whereas for pelmeni, solely uncooked minced meat is used.
17. Shashlik
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Meat on a skewer (normally lamb, pork or rooster) is among the tastiest dishes of the Caucasus kitchen. Russians prefer to make BBQ events and have loads of methods to marinade the meat earlier than grilling. In eating places, shashlik is normally served on a plate with lavash (flatbread), greenery, some tomatoes, cucumbers and adjika scorching sauce.
16. Kvass
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A soda fabricated from bread…? Sounds bizarre, but it surely’s very tasty and refreshing in summer time! Kvass is easy to make at home from rye or wheat loaf, water and a few herbs. And sure, because it ferments, it finally ends up containing a little bit of alcohol!
15. Ptichye Moloko
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The title means “fowl’s milk”. What? Milk from a fowl? After all, not. This cake was created in 1978 by Vladimir Guralnik, the pastry chef of Moscow’s ‘Prague’ restaurant, who took the recipe of the comfortable chocolate-covered sweet stuffed with comfortable meringue or milk souffle as a foundation. A fragile souffle on a comfortable sponge cake, coated with darkish chocolate – it’s extremely troublesome to withstand a ‘Bird’s Milk’ cake!
14. Plombir ice-cream
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Plombir ice cream got here to the Russian delicacies from France and mass manufacturing of it started within the early Soviet occasions. Based on state requirements, the ice cream needed to include the very best share of milk fats and may solely be made solely from complete milk or cream. In Russia, plombir is produced within the type of a briquette, in a waffle cup, but it surely tastes best in chocolate glaze on a stick.
13. Fried potatoes with mushrooms
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For those who assume that there aren’t any good dishes, simply fry some potatoes with mushrooms. Any variety will work: chanterelles, mushrooms, champignons. And probably the most scrumptious factor is to eat it proper out of the frying pan!
12. Tula pryanik
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This most famous type of Russian pryaniki (gingerbread) has been known since the end of the 17th century. The Tula pryanik is available in totally different styles and sizes, however the most typical is a rectangle with an inscription glazed on prime. Contained in the pryaniki you will discover jam or condensed milk.
11. Seledka pod shuboi
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You may hate it or adore it, however Russians are huge lovers in making “Herring under a fur coat” salad. Finely chopped herring, boiled potatoes, carrot and beetroot, in addition to finely sliced onion and egg are specified by layers. The salad is historically dressed with mayonnaise (naturally!).
10. Kholodets
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This in style dish on the festive desk is nothing greater than a really thick meat broth with items of meat, typically carrots, which has turned into jelly by cooling. Khołodets is normally eaten with horseradish or mustard.
9. Olivier salad
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The Olivier salad is also called the Russian salad: that is the must-have dish on the New Yr’s Eve desk, not solely right here, but additionally in each post-Soviet state. Soviet cooks took the unique Russian recipe of the nineteenth century and changed grouse meat with Doktorskaya (“Physician’s”) bologna, capers with canned peas, in addition to Provence sauce with mayonnaise and created the most well-liked salad.
8. Makarony po-flotsky
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Pasta with minced meat has long been a favorite dish for many families. In the USSR, makarony po-flotsky grew to become widespread after the tip of the Nice Patriotic Warfare, when sailors returned house and advised a couple of dish they usually ate throughout the service.
7. Napoleon cake
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The Russian model of the mille-feuille cake appeared in 1912, when the nation celebrated the one centesimal anniversary of the victory over Napoleon. Homemade Napoleon is definitely ready from puff pastry and custard (or butter cream). The primary factor is to let the truffles soak for a minimum of an evening.
6. Syrniki
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Syrniki with bitter cream or with varenye (jam) as grandma used to make – the perfect breakfast for all occasions! Cottage cheese as the principle ingredient of this dish makes syrniki particularly wholesome and tender.
5. Beef Stroganoff
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Beef Stroganoff was invented by a French chef who served Depend Alexander Stroganov. Beef tenderloin is minimize into small items, breaded in flour, rapidly fried with onions, after which stewed with a bitter cream and tomato sauce for about an hour. Beef Stroganoff is served with salted cucumbers, mushrooms and mashed potatoes or rice as a facet dish.
4. Shchi
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The pillar of Russian cuisine is cabbage soup with the unpronounceable title “Shchi”. It is cooked both with sauerkraut or recent cabbage and, in some areas (primarily within the Golden Ring cities), you will get frozen shchi in winter – one thing like a semi-prepared product that means that you can prepare dinner the soup in a short time when needed.
3. Blini
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Russian blini (pancakes) are baked from wheat yeast dough, whereas the variety of toppings and fillings to them is infinite. Blini are most frequently eaten with caviar, mushrooms, with bitter cream and jam, nevertheless. They are often wrapped within the type of an envelope or a roll, or they are often cooked“with pripek” (when the filling is “baked” to the pancake whereas it is frying). An actual pancake feast is held on Maslenitsa week (Shrovetide) in anticipation of spring.
2. Pelmeni
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Probably the most Russian dish ever! Wrap the meat in dough within the type of an “ear” and freeze it till higher occasions. By the best way, many Russian areas have their own versions of dumplings: in Siberia, pelmeni are full of combined beef and pork meat, within the Urals, you’ll be able to attempt fish pelmeni, within the north, dumplings will be with wild meat.
1. Borsch
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Russians (and different Slavic individuals) have been cooking this well-known soup since historic occasions, and there are different recipes in several areas that locals at all times contemplate to be the one true recipe. Some add tomatoes to borsch, some add beans, some add potatoes. Arguing about recipes is a ineffective factor, is not it time for lunch?
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