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!

Man from Chili:

Russian meals has meat as its main component. I think Russia is all like big piece of meat. Extremal weather, serious people… Siberians need to have power to live almost all year long in winter, so people in Siberia eat a lot of meat. In spite of eating a lot of meat, Russian have natural healthy diet. They eat meat with vegetables and never eat a lot, as in America people do.

Man from Great Britain:

In Russia I like their dairy products. They are all very tasty and useful. But the most interesting Russian milk food is milk soup. Nowhere in the world I met this dish! I tried to cook milk soup at home but could not. But sometimes it seems to me that Russians never heard about thing we name “healthy food”. They add mayonese to every dish they eat. It is so many calories there!

Woman from France:
Meals we buy in France every day in Russia are very expensive. Good cheese, meat can be bought only in elite supermarkets. But Russia has the tastiest fish in the world. In Siberia I tried wonderful salmon – you will not find such fresh fish nowhere in the world! In France sea products are expensive and not every man can buy them.