All About Russian Food

Cristian world has different traditions of Easter celebrations. Russians have several special Easter dishes. Among of them – Easter eggs. Traditionally coloured eggs in Russia have been cooked by boiling them in onion peel.

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It is a time of Lent before Easter for the whole Cristian world. Lent meals are supposed to be free of animal fat. So you can’t eat meat, eggs, dairy products. It is a bit boring, is not it? But there is a way to make your Lent more various and tasty.

For example, try to add to your every day menu some traditional Russian foods. [Read more →]

Almost every nation has its national recipe of cooking cabbage. Everybody know Korean cabbage. The most widespread cabbage dish in Russia in sour cabbage. This dish is traditionally cooked by hostess in autumn and eaten all winter long.

Sour cream is easy to cook, it needs not very expensive ingredients. And one more reason to eat sour cabbage – except of very good taste it is real fund of vitamin C. Sour cabbage has more vitamin C than oranges. Eating it you do great prophylactic of winter diseases.
You can try to cook sour cabbage by yourself. [Read more →]

It is summer in Russia! From ancient times Russian refreshing beverage Number 1 is kvass. It has pleasant taste and very useful. Try to drink kvass when heat and you will feel cool. Here you go! It is Russian kvass recipe.

Take 1 kilogram of rye bread and cut it into pieces. Then put these pieces to electric stove and dry. Pound dried bread and fill up with 5 liters of boiling water. Wait for 6-8 hours and filter water, put in it 200 gram of sugar and 50 gram of dilute in 1 liter of water barm. [Read more →]

Eastern world likes to have barbecue. Russian people have there own dish for outdoors parties. Its name is shashlik. Shashlik is meat marinated in special way and fried on bonfire. Mix of onion, spices, lemon juice or vine makes meat soft and very tasty.

To cook shaslik you will need:

Fresh pork

Onions

Pepper

Lemon or glass of dry white wine

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