To cook shaslik you will need:

Fresh pork

Onions

Pepper

Lemon or glass of dry white wine

Salt and sugar

How to cook:

Take fresh pork with lard (600 grams for a person), cut it into pieces and put it into the deep dish. Cut and add onions (250 grams for 1 kilogram of meat). Then add juice of one lemon, salt, sugar, pepper. Leave this mix in place with room temperature for 4-5 hours.

Fry shashlik on open flame, using metal sticks.

Serve shashlik with lemons and fresh greenery. Spicy ketchup can be used as sauce.

Russians eat salads in addition to main dish or can use them as main dish.

The most popular salads in Russia are potato salad, vinegret, red-beet salad, “healthy” salad.

Potato salad Russians often name “olivie”. Of course, it is not traditional French salad which is famous all over the world. When Russians offer you olivie they mean potato salad which has boiled potatoes, carrots, eggs, marinated cucumbers, fresh onion, tinned peas and meat or sausages as its components. This salad also includes mayonnaise.

Other Russian salad which also has the name of frensh dish in spite of the difference between Russian and French version of the salad – vinegret. It consists of boiled red beet and carrots, popatoes, onions, marinated cucumbers or sour cabbage. As the seasoning of the salad Russian use vinegar and vegetable oil.

Among every day meals of Russians you can find salads which unclude mainly one component as the basis. For example, it is “healthy” salad which is consists of cabbage, and red-beet salad. In spite of the simplicity of these dishes they are very useful and tasty.

Also in Russia you can try “Primorsky” salad, herring and potato salad and others.

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We will start from vodka, because a lot of people in the world know it as Russian alcoholic beverage Number 1.
Russian vodka consists of 40 degrees of alcohol. It is strong, so it is recommended for men. But in Russia women drink vodka too. There are a lot of traditions in Russia connected with vodka. Commissioned policeman must make party for their colleagues and celebrations starts only when this policeman standing on foot will drink a glass of vodka in one gulp, will not take any snack and introduce himself (for example): Captain Ivanov!
Wine is quite popular too. It is the choice of women and some men, who like the process of drinking and prefer soft taste of wine.
Champagne in Russia is the beverage of the New Year celebration. Russians usually don’t drink champagne in everyday life. They use it during New Year party, wedding, etc. Russian people only start with champagne their celebrations, and after that continue to drink other kinds of alcohol.
Beer – the most widespread alcoholic beverage in Russian. People like it and drink everywhere – at home, in the cinema, take it to picnics… And those who use car drink non-alcoholic bear.
Notice, Russians prefer not to mix different alcoholic beverages during one party. This rule is absolute if one started to drink strong beverage like vodka, for example.
But if you started from wine or beer you can drink beverages that are stronger later. Russians name it – to rise the degree. If you will rise degree, there will not be headache next morning.
Russians don’t like cocktails and seldom mix different beverages as people in Europe like.
Russian people prefer to feel natural taste of every beverage, even if it is alcoholic and very strong.