Main Courses

Main courses of Russian cuisine can easily fill your stomach. Many of them are truly unique and cannot be found in other cuisines. Many traditional Russian dishes have been added to menus of restaurants around the world. Perhaps, you have already tried some of them without even realizing it.

But surely, you have not tried them all!

How to Make a Real Russian Beef Stroganoff (Homemade Recipe)
Each country and each cook tried to change the original recipe, but we will revive it...
Teruny – Draniki
These delicious potato pancakes can be made easily and quickly. This dish has more than one name and a lot more ways of preparing it. In different regions of Ru...
Siberian Dumplings (Russian Pelmeni)
Фотобанк Лори Siberian dumplings (Siberian pelmeni) – a dish that is certainly worth trying if you visit Siberia. Ground meat or fish wrapped ...
Pike: a Tasty Predator
The most important thing – is to cook pike right In some regions of Russia in the old days pike’s meat was considered not very tasty and tough. Researchers ...
Mysterious Russian Food – Kundyum
Did kundyum really exist or were they invented by one of the writers about the Russian cuisine? Modern culinary historians have to reconstruct many forgotten re...
Fish and Sour Cream – a Russian Combination
In Russian cuisine sour cream was used everywhere – to soften the dishes, reduce the heat and add moisture. Sour cream is added to hot and cold soups, mea...
5 Ways to Cook Mushrooms in the Russian Cuisine
Different methods of cooking mushrooms were developed a long time ago. Over time, they have barely changed. 1. Drying The best way to preserve mushrooms was con...
Russian Buckwheat Pancakes
Real Russian pancakes were made with buckwheat flour instead of wheat, as it is today. In Russian cuisine buckwheat pancakes were always prepared using yeast. T...
Russian Pancakes (`Blini`): Sweet-Smelling Symbol of the Sun
Golden, hot and round, pancakes in Russia (Russian blini) from the ancient times symbolized the sun. Maslenitsa, originally a pagan rite of welcoming spring, a ...
A Fire-Dish from a Russian Tsar Table: Pot Roast
Cooking meat on fire was typical of almost all nations in the world. In Russian cuisine, as well, a pot roast takes pride of place. It was served even to Russia...

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