Russian cuisine is rich and varied

Autor –Yuliya Ipatova

Marina Isaeva

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Content

1-Appetizers

2-Soups

3-Pelmeni

4-Pies

5-Milk products

6-Drinks

Russian cuisine is rich and varied.

There is a big choice of appetizers, soups, hot and dessert dishes.

According to Russian tradition, a meal begins with the appetizers, for example a variety of salted, fermented and pickled cucumbers, cabbage and mushrooms. Also popular many salads.

For example…

It consists of potatoes, green peas and cold veal or chicken and dressed with mayonnaise.

Russian – style salad – vinaigrette is based on boiled beetroot diced. To this are added boiled carrots and potatoes, salted cucumbers, finely chopped onions and sauerkraut. The salad is dressed with mayonnaise or sunflower oil.

Soups make a part of dinner or Russian cuisine. There are many different soups in Russian cuisine : shchee, shchee Petrovsskie, borshch, rassolnik, solyanka, ukha, okrochka.

Shchee is cooked from cabbage and meat. Shchee Petrovsskie is cooked from pike – perch and cabbage.

Pelmeni is another specialty of Russian cookery, which has its history. Under the Mongol yoke pelmeni became established in Siberia and the Urals and gradually spread on all the territory of Russia. Traditional mixture of beef ,pork and elk is used to make minced meat. The women make the dough and chop the meat, the men do the folding .Then the pelmeni are deep frozen and kept in sacks, bagsor buckets in cold pantries.

Russian cuisine is famous for its pies which were baked in Russia in good old times and are very popular nowadays.

For example rasstegai, kulibaka, vatrushki, krendeli, boubliki, baranki, sooshki, koolich.

Rasstegai is open – topped pirozhki with meat of fish stuffing.

Kulibaka is a pie with meat, cabbage or fish filling.

Vatrushki is yeast dough roll with hollows filled with curds or jam.

Koolich is Russian Easter Cake.

A large variety of milk products are used in Russian cooking: a sort of dry, granulated cream cheese called tvorog, thick sour cream called smetana. Smetana is also an almost universal flavouring sause.

As for drinks, Russian cuisine offers you its original beverages: kvas and zbiten, and different fruit and berry beverages..

Kvas is a beverage made from rye bread and water fermented by yeast. There are many sorts of kvas: mushrooms kvas , kvas with mint, beetroot kvas.

Zbiten is an old Russian beverage made from kvas, cognac or vodka, honey, tea and spices.

Russian people are very hospitable and generous at the table. Bread and salt the symbolic offering at welcome and also a sign of respect from host to guest.

Hospitality is a typical trayt of character of a Russian.

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