Russian Cuisine & Recipes

Typical Russian Dishes

Appetizers

• Bliny (Filled buckwheat crepes)
• Ikra (Caviar)
• Marinovannye Griby (Marinated mushrooms)
• Pashtet (Chicken liver paté)

Soups & Stews

• Borshch (Beet soup)
• Pokhlobka (Potato soup)
• Rassolnik (Sorrel soup)
• Shchi (Cabbage soup)
• Ukha (Fish soup)

Salads

• Kvashenaya Kapusta Provansal (Sauerkraut salad)
• Salat Olivier (Chicken & vegetable salad with sour cream dressing)
• Vinegret (Cold vegetable salad)

Noodles & Dumplings

• Pelmeny (Stuffed pasta dumplings)
• Vareniki (Stuffed dumplings)

Meats

• Bef Stroganov (Beef & mushrooms in a sour cream sauce)
• Golubtsy (Stuffed cabbage rolls)
• Pirozhki (Meat-filled pastries)
• Shashlik (Marinated lamb skewers)
• Zharennyi Porosenok (Roast suckling pig)

Fish & Seafood

• Kulebiaka (Salmon in puff pastry)
• Sturgeon in Lemon-Dill Sauce

Vegetables & Beans

• Draniki (Potato pancakes; see Latkes recipe)
• Kapusta (Sauerkraut)

Breads & Grains

• Kasha (Buckwheat groats)
• Dark Rye Bread

Desserts

• Charlotka (Cake of ladyfingers & whipped cream)
• Kissel (Puréed fruit dessert)
• Kulich (Easter cake)
• Paskha (Easter cheese dessert)

Beverages

• Kvas (Fermented rye beverage)
• Vodka (Distilled potato liquor)

Breakfast

• Bliny (Filled buckwheat crepes)
• Syrniki (Sweet cheese fritters)