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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Easter is one of the most impotant holidays of Russian ortodox church. Many days before Eastertide ortodox believers keep the fast. They don’t eat meat, milk products, eggs, don’t drink alcohol and don’t even use salt and oil cooking their meals.

But when Eastertide comes, Russian usually have rich dinners with a lot of delicious [...]

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