All About Russian Food

There is an opinion exists, that Russian most popular drink is vodka. Of course it is the legend like another one – Red Square is the place where bears walk. Russian tradition saves a lot of recipes of tasty alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Here we will speak about the most popular alcoholic beverages in Russia.

We will start from vodka, because a lot of people in the world know it as Russian alcoholic beverage Number 1. [Read more →]

Russian climate is very changeable. That is why since ancient times people looked for the opportunity to store meals for a long time. That times appeared dried products like fish that Russian name “vobla”, herbal teas and so on. Special kind of food in Russia was frozen food.

Of course, frozing meals was possible only in winter, because no refrigerators were invented then. [Read more →]

To understand if you like Russian dishes or not It is necessary to try them. You can buy Russian food in the shop or cook some national dishes at home. We decided to publish some easy to cook, popular and not very expencive repices for you.

The most popular first dish in Russia is red-beet soup. Every hostess in Russia keeps her own secret of cooking this dish. Red-beet soup has the opputunity to ripen – it becomes more tasty in some hours after it was cooked and on the second day.

To cook Russian red-beet soup you will need:

200-300 grams of beef or 2 beef ribs

3 red beets

4 potatoes

half of the cabbage

1 carrot

2 onions

2 spoons of tomato paste

salt

pepper

1 quart half-and-half

sour cream

greens
Directions

* Place beef short ribs or beef meat, salt and pepper in a stock pot.
* Cover with water (at least 3 quarts) and bring to a boil. Cook until meat will be ready. Skim off any visible fat. Take meat or ribs off the pan and put it to the plate will some bouillon you have got.
* Add cut very small red beets. Simmer until red beets are tender.
* Add cumbled up cabbage and boil everything under the cover.
* Using sunflower oil, fry in the pan clumbled up onions and carrot.

* When vegetables will be tender, add fried onions and carrot to the pan with bouillon, in 5 minutes add tomato paste there.

*  Cut beef to the pieces and add to the soup or put ribs to the soup.
* In the plates serve soup with sour cream and greens.

Enjoy red-beet soup!