A soup that can be eaten hot or cold with made primarily from beetroots but ca also include cabbage, carrots, onions, potatoes and tomatoes. A proper chunky sour soup.
Another hearty soup that can be made with meat, fish or mushroom as the feature ingredient and garlic to suit your taste. Don’t forget the pickled cucumbers!
A pie that looks a lot like a British pastie – but that it where the similarity ends as this pie has sturgeon, buckwheat and salmon as some of the main ingredients.
This is a very rich and creamy ice cream popular served with chocolate chips or strawberries. Many people who have tries this say it is much better than any western ice cream.
Basically this is a small dumpling made from dough which is usually unleavened. You can find them with fillings made from mince, onions, maybe turnip and mushroom.
Blini
These are little pancakes more like a thick crepe,usually made from buckwheat. You can go savoury or even sweet – special with caviar on top.
Sometimes round and sometimes shaped like a bout – the Russian preferred version of a pizza. Cheese and egg surrounded by leavened crust bread
Stews are very traditional Russian meals and this one is a slow cooked beef and potato beauty. Some say it is similar to a Goulash.