What are some really good Russian food recipes?

Question by ZomBie™ Is Your Nightmare: Russians: What are some good recipes that you all can reccomend?
I love Russian food a lot, idk what would i do without Russian food, anyways can you all reccomend me some good food recipes, Spacibo!

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Answer by Lyudmila
My favorite recipes:
1. Салат “Оливье”=Salad “Olivier”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_Olivier

2. “Беф Строганов”=”Beef Stroganoff”:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipe-collections/beef-stroganoff/index.html

3.”Винегрет”=

http://darragoldstein.com/

Russian pancakes-“blini”

Ingredients:
6 tablespoon. flour
3 cups. milk
2 ea. eggs
0,5 teasp. soda
2 tablesp. vegetable oil
0.5 teasp. salt
0,5 ea. onion (average)

Method:
Mix eggs with 3 cups of milk . Add salt and flour and mix thoroughly. Add 2 tablesp. of vegetable oil and mix thorougly once more.The dough can be drained so that there are no flour lumps in it. Pour vegetable oil into a saucer. Peel an onion and cut it into 2 parts; take one part with a fork and dip it in oil. Use it for greasing the pan with vegetable oil only for the first pancake(blin). Heat the pan very well(it is important). Grease it. Pour thin layer of batter evenly. Cook until light brown, about 2 minutes on each side. Don`t grease the pan for the next pancakes.Servings: 2-3. Bliny can be served with butter, sour cream, black or red caviar, fillet of sturgeon, lox, and salmon. As to me, I like Bliny with sugar,honney or jam.

Answer by Rozmin
I’m not Russian, but I love Russian food and I learned how to cook many Russian dishes because I’ve been dating a Russian guy for the past 3 years. He seems pretty happy with the way I’m cooking these dishes, and I learned most of them from his mom.

For hot weather, try making okroshka. It is a wonderful cold soup:
OKROSHKA
-Chop a bunch of scallions (green onion), both green and white part, or only green if the white part is very big. Put in a bowl, sprinkle generously with salt, and then mash with a fork till juices appear.
-Chop a bunch of dill, some parsley, a little mint, add to the bowl.
-Chop the following and add:
a cucumber (peel or seed as you prefer), into cubes about .5″x.5″x.5″
10-20 radishes (depending on size and how much you like them) into thin circles
2 medium sized baked or boiled potatoes, no skin is better
3-4 hard boiled eggs
about 100 g boiled meat (I always leave this out, I don’t think it’s necessary but no Russian has ever agreed with me on that point)
-Add salt to taste, and lots of black pepper
Now, for the tastiest and authentic okroshka, you should fill the bowl with home made kvass. This is a drink made from toasted rye bread. HOWEVER, I often use a mix of sparkling mineral water and regular water instead. I got that from a Russian language site for women, it was recommended as a dieting tip, but its convenient too. To serve, stir in some cream (creme fraiche) and just a little sugar to taste. If you like, you can also add some mustard when you are preparing this.

Some other dishes I like to make, with a description:
-Pelmeni (Russian tortellini, dumplings stuffed with meat, onion and black pepper. Served in soup, or with cream, or dipped in vinegar, or with pasta sauce.)
-Vareniki (more like Ukrainian, but still loved by many Russian people. They are boiled dumplings, often filled with sweetened cottage cheese (tvorog) or cherries.)
-Golubtsy (Cabbage leaves, or sometimes bell peppers, stuffed with a meat and rice mixture, cooked on the stove for a long time, served with sour cream.)
-Solyanka (Very meaty, sort of salty soup. Has 3 or more kinds of meat, olives, sometimes mushrooms, served with lemon wedge.)
-Borsch (Classical soup, made with meat, beets, carrots, onion, tomato paste, cabbage, potatoes. One of the best things you can eat on a cold winter day.)
-Piroshki (Baked, or sometimes fried, hand-held pies. The dough is yeast-risen, and they can be stuffed with anything, sweet or savory. My favorite stuffing is sauteed carrot and onion mixed with chopped hard-boiled eggs)
-Pickled tomatoes
-Pickled mushrooms
-Salted cabbage
-Blini/oladi (these are thin or sometimes slightly puffy pancakes. The slightly puffy ones are made with yeast. Oladi are smaller, sort of like silver dollar pancakes.)
-Vinegret salad (salted cabbage, beets, peas, apple, pickles, potato)
-Kotlety (they are kind of like meatballs in how you make them, but flattened and just fried, not stewed in a sauce)

Those things are all really tasty. I have sort of documented how I’ve cooked some of these things here: http://rozminsrecipes.blogspot.com/search/label/Russian

I haven’t updated that blog in a while, so many things are not there. If you can read Russian, these sites are very good:

http://gotovim-doma.ru/
http://www.good-cook.ru/

This site is a good introduction, I think the recipes need some tweaking, but in general its good:

http://www.russlandjournal.de/en/recipes/

I have just recently found these ones, and I quite like them as well:

http://www.ruscuisine.com/
http://rt.com/

If you want to know about some specific recipe, you can email me and I’ll try to help you

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