Article DetailsGreatest Five Russian Dishes |
| Date Added: December 14, 2009 05:00:00 PM |
| Author: Casey Adams |
| Category: Home: Cooking |
| The first reason you should travel to Russia on your next travel is the cuisine. The top fiveRussian foods consist of simple, basic foods that taste so good! Potatoes, bread, butter, meat, and eggs are basics in the making of many Russian foods. Since the weather is so cold, fresh veggies are rare except for cold weather veggies such as cabbage and onions.
If you are lucky you might even get to sample some of Russia's number one food, its well-known caviar while you are there. A wonderful appetizer made with caviar, sour cream, and blinis is Caviar Blini. The caviar and sour cream is put onto the blini and then it isrolled up and then} thinly sliced. Borsch is one of the top five foods in Russia, and may be the most popular. Beet soup is a delicious Russian soup made from meat and beets. It will usually also contain potatoes, onions, carrots, cabbage, and peppers and is mainly garnished with sour cream. Borsch also has generous amounts of butter in it which make it a hearty, flavorful dish. The bitterly cold weather in Russia makes soup a welcome dish after a long hard day. If you are invited to someone's home for dinner and Shashlik is on the menu, be sure to take them up on the invitation. Shashlik are chunks of marinated meat roasted on a skewer over a blazing fire. Serving Shashlik to friends is the Russian version of a barbecue and is meant to be a social event. An additional|One of the other popular Russian food is Pirozhki. These are small buns or pies made of dough which are stuffed with tasty fillings made of seafood, meats, veggies, rice, and eggs. The Pirozhki are then baked or pan fried and are delicious. Some of the stuffings used for the Pirozhki include boiled eggs combined with sauteed fish and onions. In place of fish some people love their Pirozhki to be filled with a combination of chopped meat combined with boiled eggs and onions. Sauteed cabbage and rice with dill and boiled eggs are also fillings for the Pirozhki. Other cold weather veggies like potatoes are combined with onion and dill to make Pirozhki fillings. Another combination for the Pirozhki filling is mushrooms fried with carrots and onions. Freshly made Pirozhki's put the crowning touch on a meal of hearty Borsch or cold Okroshka soup. Visiting Russia is incomplete without eating Kvass, which is a mildly alcoholic beverage made from rye. The rye gives Kvass its rich, dark color. A mixture of flour, water and malt liquid is mixed into a dough that is fermented. It is then mixed with water, sugar, yeast and other flavors before brewing. Mint, ginger, berry and fruit juices might also be mixed into the Kvass mixture. The alcoholic content of Kvass is minute and even children are allowed to drink it. Kvass is also an ingredient in many Russian foods such as Okroshka soup. You could find that you have a different view of the top five Russian foods after you visit this culture rich land. Russian food is hearty and simple like the Russian people who will extend an invitation to their humble homes for a night of beverage and Shashlik. The food and the people will stand out as two of the best things that you experience when you travel to Russia. |
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